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Fallure Is an Episode in Success. By HERBERT KAUFI^iAINL «•*»♦«■ You can be a failure only by your own acquiescence. Until you elect yourself a down-and-outer, the votes of the rest of the community are ineffective. We can tell when you lose a ski nish but only you know when you have lost the battle for success. G'>iirng “licked” is like every other habit, the first experiment is generally the worst of the experience. The hardest part of defeat is its novelty. But when you'realize that every tomorrow is as good as any yesterday, that setbacks and disappointments are exercises iih which men develop character, after that chagrin at your inefficiency will last about as long as the pain that follows a whole-hearted physical exertion. Of course you’ve slipped here and tripped there and possibly lunged head over tin cups into a mess of tangled affairs. But can’t you see that you really didn’t understand what you were about if you aren’t able to restore yourself to your former status ? A machine which produces first-class work can always re peat its performance. Once in a while a screw works loose, and it begins to make a mess of things, but the turn of a wrench will generally tighten the wobble out of the wheels and start it off again at its former rate of accuracy and speed. Once we learn that a mechanism is practical we are annoyed but by no means disheartened at the slipping of a belt or the breaking of a shaft. By simply remembering the arrangement of the parts we can with a little patience effect the essential repairs. You require no more than a good wrench of resolution to regain your old enthusiasm and confidence. Provided there are no flaws in your mettle, determination will quickly speed you up to your former potency. But if you lose your courage, you’re just junk; there is noth• ing left to make things go. Somewhere among your thousands of nerves—that astounding assortment of little wires that con nect your head with your hands and eyes and soul—there is a lurking store of energy sufficient to -drive your engine at any speed and power you elect. No force of nature is so dynamic as human will. Because they decreed themselves stronger than adverse cir cumstances the deaf, the dumb, the blind and the crippled from Homer to John Milton, from Milton to Alexander Stevens, from Stevens to Helen Keller, have risen above the handicaps and restric tions of an improvident destiny and lived to achieve fame and might.. But you are not even deficient. Providence did ndt skimp you ' by one faculty or limb. You are “all there.” Nothing is missing except nerve, and until you get that back nothing else is worth a rap to you. Any man who surrenders his hopes never deserved them. Opportunity has no use for cowards. Once in the life of almost every human she withdraws what she gave, not be cause she is a wanton jade but a wise and intelligent old dhme. _ By a man’s appreciation of his chances does she measure his fitness to hold what she bestows. Those who stand still as she replevins her gifts never meet her again, but the scrapper who chases after her and demands the return of his property she never refuses. Misfortune is the test surest by which to determine a manhood. Fate and society alike despise a quitter.. THE IDEA F?R THIS N9VEL « PRACTICAL DESIGN WAS ORIGINATED BY "WINIFRED WORTH" yj- |^0 woman ^ls satisfied with placing cheap-locking towels at a guest’s service, which brought into pretty play the many styles in embroidered towels. Some are iSlost elaborate, others plain wHh a monogram, but most all are somewhat extravagant in nci To obtain the best possible results one must have this work done upon rather fine toweling, as a coarse mesh will not carry a design, and it would soon lose shape. Then good toweling launders a clear white as long as there is a hit of it to wash. These patterns are. of ^dainty - flower^ designs embroidering fine material. Use a single thread of floss for the flowers, but pad th^buttonhole edge, making it quite heavy. Note the lapped crescent border of my lower, pattern. U is made, and a substantial border for this purpose. Use white, red. or blue floss for embroidering each pattern. Sincerely yours. $ an m. m