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ALONG LIFE’S
TRAIL
By THOMAS A. CLARK
Dean of Men, University of 1llinols,
(®, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.)
GETTING AWAY FROM
ONE'S PAST
'S grievous,” an old English
writer says, though I am not
at ali sure that he is correct in this,
“that with all amplification of travel
both by sea and land, 1 man can never
separate himself from his past his
tory.”
We are accustomed srdinarily In
making such reflections, to apply the
principle only to those ‘hings In our
past that are unwholesume or ques
tionable, and to emphasise the perma-
pent Influence of evil things, but it Is
equally true of our vontact with
healthy or noble or beautiful things.
No experience of life, when it Is past,
leaves a man quite the same as he was
before. One man has climbed Long's
peak, or crossed the ocenn or heard a
great musician, or seen @¢ beautiful
picture, or heen under the .ufluence,
even for a brief time, of a fine char
acter, comes away from the experience
with a ttle different view of life, a
broader outlook, a higher conceprion of
duty. He can never sink quite to the
level he occupled before.
Isaiah Harding, one of our nelgh-
bors when | was a child, had never
been outside of the state. He had
ploughed and sown and reaped his
crops and had known no other outlook
than the broad prairies that stretched
endlessly before him. Then he visited
the Centennial exposition In Philadel
phia. The trip cost him one hun-
dred and fifty dollars, he con:
fessed after he came back. It seemed
a small fortune in 1876, but It was
worth it all. He was a new man for
the experience, he had seen a new
world, he had had an unexpected vis-
fon and he never tired of telling of it;
he never got away from It.
It was a trifling experience which
sent me to college—an irritating stimu-
lating criticism of my appearance and
my ignorance which I could not quite
forget or ignore, The young fellow
who was responsible for the remark
had no thought of the effect of his
words, 1 Imagine, but his words bored
into my consciousness and [ could
never get away from them. Ultimately
they changed the whole current of my
life and thought.
It is true of all of us. Every emo
tfon we feel, every noble generous
word we utter or thought we have,
every experience that is ours, gond or
bad, leaves a permanent impression
upon our lives and characters,
No one can ever get away from his
past,
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ECONOMIZING GASOLINE
very little knowledge of the habits
and vagaries of automobiles In general
and this one In particular,
“If you want to save gasoline”
Spencer sald to me, “drive steadily at
a moderate speed. It takes gasoline
to stop and start the car frequently,
and nothing eats it up like pushing
the machine beyond its normal speed.”
I was interested.
An automobile is apparently not un-
like people. Kinney was bullding a
house for me. It was begun In April
and was to be finished by September,
The work dragged at first and 1 spoke
to him about It
“Don't worry,” he said “we have
oceans of time. I'll have the job fin-
ished a month before the day agreed
upon.” He was mistaken, however,
There were delays at a crucial time, a
strike Iald the men off for two weeks,
and when September came, although
Kinney was “steppin’ on er” hard, the
house lacked a month of completion.
He had wasted his opportunities at
the beginning and no matter how much
gasoline he used up at the end he
could not make the grade.
There was Culver, on the other hand,
who did his work so regularly that he
never seemed rushed or worried for
fear he would not be finished In sea-
son. Other fellows thought that Cul-
ver was lucky or a genius but the real
explanation was that he was a steady,
consistent worker, who economized his
gasoline throughout the whole trip.
He got farther with the expenditure
of less energy than anyone else I
ever knew.
The fellow who does his work regu
larly, who keeps from worry, who sets
for himself a moderate Intellectual
pace and keeps it every day will ae
complish more by the end of the year
than the fellow who works by fits and
starts, who loafs at the beginning of
the week, and then pushes himself to
a pace of fifty miles an hour on Sun
day. It is the moderate uniform rate
of speed that saves the nerves and
economizes the gasoline,
Very few young people give much
thought to the future. The fact that
they will some day be old, or weak-
ened, or broken In strength does not
occur to them, The young fellow,
however, who dissipates his energies
or his emotions, who lives the fast
life, who taxes his physique beyond its
normal resistance, ultimately pays the
penalty. Before his journey Is ended,
his strength will be gone, the gasoline
will be out, he will have wasted his
powers. He will come to the heavy
hills of middle life without the power
to carry him up,
Each of us has about so much re
serve power. If we waste It today,
we shall need It tomorrow, If we use
up our energles in youth, we may ex-
pect a premature, weakened old age.
ALWAYS SHINING
N THE hearts of the humble, the
sun is always shining. If you will
pause a homegt to look Into the faces
of such mortals, you will catch a
glimpse of celestial fire whose Intensity
cannot be measured.
With humility, these souls have pa-
tlence and faith. They often pass us
by unheeded, for they are not given
to show or vaunting.
Their eyes are mild, thelr lips are
set In a smile.
They go upon thelr way as softly
a8 do the stars of night. mindful of
thelr course and keeping steadfastly
upon it, in all sorts of weather,
Only rarely do we woridliings know
such souls when we meet them, yet
we are consclous of thelr magnetic
Influence. The light that shines from
thelr faces soothes and encourages us,
It may be the face of a child, but
we catch the thrill of a new emotion
and go soaring off into another realm,
wondering what subtle spirit has
touched us and left us so sublimely
thrilled.
experienced, 1s never forgotten.
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THOUGHT of ail the
come
To man to make him merrisome,
And gold Is good, nnd fame is fine,
things that
But, for a joy to make a man
A whirling dervish, nothing can
Excepting one, and that is this
The very altitude of bliss,
Pure stuff, Al, yard wide, all wool—
A home run with the bases full
The team's behind, say 4 to 1,
The game Is very nearly done,
The ninth, twe down. A crack ls
heard,
And someone singles over third!
Two down,
talk?
Two strikes, three balls
walk !
grandstand,
pull f=
“A home run
two on! What's all the
Hooray, a
Now bleachers, hear ‘em
with the bases full!”
We talk about the brotherhood
Of man. All very well and good
But only then beyond a doubt
I've ever seen It carried out
I've seen a minister embrace
feel that we cannot bear them a day
longer.
It forms a plensing background to
our existence, a sort of refuge where
we may go and find rest when we
are unnerved, exhausted nnd discour-
aged
Riches, honor and fame lose thelr
luster when in the presenbh of the
soul that is humble, patient and faith-
ful,
Earthly prizes such as these are
but the dress of 8 precious substance
from which such a soul Is made—
made to endure forever, where the
ght 1s always shining and life dis
covers Itself In its true sphere.
And certainly, whatever It may be
with regard to the persons who are
now skeptical about such matters, the
day will come when they, too, shall
gee the light, and as llkely as not find
it shining within their own breasts, in
a moment when they least suspect its
divine prseence.
Hidden somewhere within us such
a light Is always burning, ready at
| the touch of the right word to flare up
i into a beneficent blaze!
| (©. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
e Young Lady
Across the Way
she supposes the farmer
after he gets his December wheat har
(©. MoClure Newspaper Byndicats.)
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A man who tended bur some place,
I've seen some haughty social dame
Who let a drummer do the same,
All leveled by (silk, cotton, wool)
A home run with the bases full
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oO" COURSE, every married man
knows that there are no infallible
rules for ruling a woman.
But every bachelor thinks he knows
a few, and never hesitates to whisper
them confidently into the poor Inno
cent bridegroom's ear.
Here they are—as far as I have
been able to gather them :
1. Start right. Guard your Inde
pendence with your life! Never humor
a wife by explaining why you are go-
ing out or when you are coming back.
After she has spent a few hours try-
ing to keep the dinner hot, and pictur
ing you mangled by a taxicab, think
what a thrill it will give her to see vou
come in well and cheerful, Instead of
on a stretcher,
2. Don't flatter her. When you are
tempted to compliment her on her
looks or her cooking, control yourself.
Be strong. A little flattery may go to
her head, and make her so dizzy that
she'll wonder why she wasted herself
on you.
8. “Assert yourself, from the start
Now, Is your appointed hour. Every
woman loves a “master.” Show her
that she is, after all, only your Rib
and that you are IT.
4 When your wife talks, never iis
ten. She will probably not say any-
thing worth hearing. And besides, it
fs much more Important that you
should finish reading the sporting
gheet, than that you should try to be
companionable with one so mentally
inferior.
5. Remember that she Is an ignorant,
unsophisticated little thing, and that
you must keep tabs on her and re
model her. Never hesitate to criticize
her clothes, to laugh at her ideas. and
to disapprove of her friends. This will
make her love you like an “uplifter.”
6 Don't be too devoted to her In
public. Let her catch you looking ad-
miringly at OTHER women, now and
then. She will soon learn to appreci
ate your good taste and broad-mind-
7. Always keep an eye on the week-
and make her account fo you
dole out to Ler.
a guardian, and
earn it.
8. Never forget that marriage is a
monarchy—not a democracy—and that
there can be only one throne one
scepter, and one set of opinions in the
house. Grab ‘em, first!
These are a bachelor’s rules for ml
ing a woman. Any bridegroom who
will folloy them, ean make a come
plete wreck of marriage, without com
mitting an single solitary sin.
(© br Helen Rowlawd.)
HOW TO KEEP
WELL
nla
Dr. Frederick R. Green,
Editor of “Health.”
(©, 1934, Western Newspaper Union.)
BETTER ROADS — BETTER
HEALTH
VERYONE admits the value of
good rouds, but what possible con
and health?
Good roads have always been re
garded as one of the necessities of
a civilized state. The old Romans
were famous road bullders and some
of thelr highways are still in exist
ence.
Macaulay, in his “History of Eng
land,” says: "Of all inventions of the
buman mind, the asiphabet and the
printing press alone excepted, those
inventions which have bridged dis
tance have done most for the civiliza-
tion of man” Steamboats and rall-
the civilized world in the Nineteenth
automobile, airplane,
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and races together,
But what have good roads to do
with health?
The state board of health of Kan-
sas says that good roads preévenl
disease.
How?
In many ways.
The removal of weeds and trash
files and other Insects
which are known as disease carriers,
oiled roads
and prevent
Hard roads and
drainage
breeding.
dry path,
Good roads promote travel
his family to town
to see more patients and to
patients, when necessary, to
Good roads have made It
tral high
for city children,
the isolation of the
family.
or mental
helps prevent
physical
individual
Good roads have reduced the
Dust catches
inhale, the better off we are
Good roads, either in the city or in
OPENING DEAF EARS
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present.
radio is the wonder of the
It has practically aonihi-
It has Increased a speak.
Editor~80 you think our paper
needs editing?
Irate Subscriber—Yes,
more—go0 does the editor!
amnesia
and some
*Well, I'm an upstairs mald and now
everybody 1s living In fSats™
Yesterday ls dead—forget It;
Tomorrow does not exist-—don’t worry;
Today Is here—use It
~Von Brookiin
TOOTHSOME DISHES
DELICIOUS dessert which will
delight the children is:
Figs and Lemon Jelly Custard.
Pour bolling water over a pound of
figs and boll rapidly until the figs are
tender, Add one-fourth of a cupful of
sugar and simmer to form a sirup. Set
uside to chill, Soften a package of
lemon gelatin or prepare the gelatin
and lemon julce, If preferred, adding
sugar to taste. Pour into a pan to
make a sheet nbout three-fourihs of
an inch thick. When chilled, cut into
cubes. Set the figs with the sirup In
sherbet cups, arrange around them
cubes of Jelly and pour over all a cold
cooked custard,
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Caramel Marshmallow Parfait,
Cut twenty marshmallows into four
pleces each; ndd one-third of a cupful
of maraschino cherries cut into thin
slices; cover with the sirup and let
them stand for an hour, Cook two
thirds of a cupful of sugar to a cara-
mel, adding two-thirds of a cupful of
water: cook until the caramel Is well
melted and add two tablespoonfuls of
sugnr; pour, when dissolved and still
hot, over a stiffly-beaten egg; beat un.
tii cold. Fold In the marshmallows
and cherries and one and one-half cup |
fuls of cream, beaten stiff. Turn into |
a melon mold, cover with paper and
pack in ice and salt, using equal mens
ures. Let stand for three hours
Scotch Shortbread.
Beat one cupful of butter to a
cream; add one-half cupful of light
brown sugar, then work in four cup
fuls of pastry flour. If the flour Is
warmed slightly it will work better.
Form the mixture into cakes seven
inches In diameter. Prick with a fork
and crimp the edges with the thumb
and finger. Sprinkle the top with
chopped. cherries, caraway candles ot
preserved citron. Bake In a slow oven
AD, 1034, Western 3 wwepaper Union.)
No Such Thing
Hub--My dear, 1 hate to find fault
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but this is a bare apology for a salad
Wite—It isn't 1 dressed It myselt
A
of any building on earth. It Is esti
over a million American
citizens heard President Coolidge in
his address before congress last De-
cember. This was probably the largest
sudience which has ever listened to
sne man. Yet it Is small compared to
be. In a few years radios will be as
common as telephones,
But the radio has done something
else that is greater than annihilating
distance or making all of our citizens
one vast audience,
It has opened the ears of the deaf.
Kot all deaf persons can hear the ra-
dio, but some so deaf that they have
not heard the human voice for years
are able to hear over the radio with
perfect ease. The New York League
for the Hard of Hearing Is so enthu-
siastic over the radio that It has
equipped its clubrooms with radio ap-
paratus carrying 24 head sets. War
ren Pond, the president of the New
York league, writing in the Volta Re
view, a magazine for the deaf, says,
“When my radio was installed and,
sitting in my home, I heard clearly the
notes of a song, the tears came to my
eyes. After living In silent land for
45 years, the spell was broken and 1
found a new heaven and a new earth”
Think what this means to the man
or woman whose ability to hear bes
practically disappeared, to whom not
only the human voice but all forms of
music are forever silent. What Is It
that makes it possible for the ear, deaf
to ordinary sounds, to respond to radio
waves? Is there something about the
radio wave that is different from the
ordinary sound wave and that pro
duces a vibration In the ear that is
dead to ordinary sounds? We do not
know, but we do know that the devel.
opment of the radio and its wide
spread+use bas brought happiness to
thousands of men women
cut oft
Sure
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