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* Youth and Opportunity *
No. 3—CITIZENSHIP—
By THOMAS TAPPER.
(The following article is published by
permission from Mr Thomas Tapper s
book just published by the Platt ftid Peek
Co., N Y- and cop? righted by them, en
titled. 'Youth and Opportunity »
TX an essay on book, . Emcr-on hac
“ the courage to set before Hi- read
ers three rules so- their guican
1. Never read any book that is not a
year old.
■J: Never* read any hut famed.book
3. Never read an. but what you Hk>-
The person who reads for pleasure, as
well as profit would probably for' com
pelled to disregard rules one and two
In fact, if Ije obeys the third rule, he
can necessarily pay but little heed to
the others The world of hooks is to
readers not unlike the landscape to the
observer every man selec ts and ad
mires what most appeals to him, or. In
other words, he finds in the book or the
landscape what there is in himself Rut
he can do mo r e than this if he will: he
can find snore ,n bonks today than h®
did yesterday, by ends ivoring to find
more - in him s-'lf. To accomplish this is
th* logical purpose of the reading hour.
Os what practical benefit is it to stop
tn the midst of a busy life and of an at
tractive* environment. and deliberately
plan to set apart some, hours of the day
or year for reading books? The answer,
in Arnold's words. Is "living in the
best company" To one not familiar
with the society of books and authors
this reference to them as the hesUcom
pery may seem, a trifle poetic, a bit far
fetched to be literally true Hut. as a
matter of fa- t we have only to turn to
the utterances of the best scholars to
find- that thev are unanimous In this
opinion John Ruskin said
”1 would urge upon ••very young man,
as the beginning of hl. due and wise
provision for his household, to obtain
as soon as he can. by the severest econ
omy. a restricted serviceable and ste ed-
Uy. however slowly increasing series of
books for use through life: making his
little lib'-ary. of all th' furniture in tip
room, the most studied and decorative
place, every volume having its assigned
place like a little statue in its niche,
and one of .the earlie st and strictest les
eons to the children of the hou e being
how to turn the pages of their own lit
erary possessions lightly and deliber
ately. with no chance of tearing or of
dog’s ears."
'Tn hooks." Richard de Bury said,
"I And the dead as if they were alive.
In books 1 foresee things to come;
* * * all the glory of the world
would be buried in oblivion unless God
had provided mortals with the remedy
of books ”
"A collection of books," says Carlyle,
"Is a real university ”
And Temple Scot, in his introduction
to ‘The Friendship of Rooks," has very
wisely pointed out this:
"We tumble over each other to get a
glimpse of a commonplace man, riding
on horseback. because he is said tn be
king of a c ountry or a great captain of
Industry; but when a real king of men
THESE SIX LETTERS
From New England Women
Prove that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
pound Does Restore the Health of Ailing Women.
Boston. Mass.—“l was passing through the Change of Life and suffered
from hemorrhages (sometimes lasting for weeks), and could get nothing to
cheek them. I began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
(tablet form) on Tuesday, and the following Saturday morning the hem
orrhages stopped. 1 have taken them regularly ever since and am steadily
gaining.
“ I certainly think that every one who is troubled as I was should give
your Compound Tablets a faithful trial, and they will find relief.” —Mrs.
George Jubv, SO2 Fifth Street, South Boston, Mass.
Letter from Mrs. Julia King. Phoenix, R.l.
Phoenix. R.l I worked steady in the mil! from the time 1 was 1° years
eld until I had been married a year, and I think that caused my bad feel
ings. 1 had soreness in my side near my left hip (hat went around to my
baek. and sometimes I would have to lie in bed for two or three days. I
was not able to do my housework. •
“ Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has helped me wonderfully in
every way. \ou may use my letter for the good of others. lam only too
glad toflo anything within mv power to recommend your medicine.” —Mrs.
Julia King. Box 252. Phoenix. R.l.
Letter from Mrs. Etta Donovan,Willimantic, Conn.
Willimantic. Conn.—" For five years I suffered untold agony from female
troubles causing backache, irregularities, dizziness, and nervous prostra
tion. It was impossible for me to walk up stairs without stopping on the
way. I was ail run down in every wav.
“ I tried three doctors and each told me something different. I received
no lienetit from any of them but. seemed to suffer more. The last doctor
said it was no use for me to fake anything as nothing would restore me to
health again. So 1 began taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
to see what it would do. and by taking seven bottles of the Compound and
other treatment you advised, 1 am restored to my natural health.”—Mrs.
Etta Donovan, Main Street, Willimantic, Conn'.
Letter from Mrs. Winfield Dana, Augusta, Me-
Augusta Mr I,vina E, Pinkham's \ pgetjihle (bninound has cured tha
backache, headache. and the bad pam I had in my right side, and 1 am
perfectly well. —Mrs. W infield Dan a, R.F.D. No. 2, Augusta, Me.
Letter from Mrs. J. A. Thompson, Newport, Vt.
Newport. Vt.—" I thank you for the great benefit Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound has done me. 1 took eight bottles and it did wonders
for me. as 1 was a nervous wreck when 1 began taking it. I shall always
speak a good word for it to my friends.”—Mrs. John A. Thompson, Box 3,
Newport Center. Vermont.
Letter from .Miss Grace Dodds, Bethlehem, N.H.
Bethlehem. N.H.—" By working very hard, sweeping carpets, washing.
Ironing, lifting heavy baskets of clothes, etc., 1 got all run down. I was
sick in bed every month.
“ This last Spring my mother got Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for me. and already 1 feel like another girl. I am regular and do
not have the pains that I did, and do not have to go to bed I will tell all
my friends what the Compound is doing for me."—Miss Gracie B. Douds,
Box 133, Bethlehem, N.H.
For 30 years Lydia IL Pinkbam’s Vegetable
Compound has been thestandard remedv forte- ba(r
male ills. Noone sick with woman's ailments U)/
does justice to herself who will not try this fa
mous medicine, made from roots and herbs, it Ij ’•'*>'ijv jj
has restored so many suffering women to health. Il * j
COXFIbEXTIAL JA W. MA>N.. for advice. W /
You, letter oill be opened read and answered
b> u woman and held in bind confideuce.
sits with us at home we take the first
opportunity to get out of his way.. I
suppose it Is much easier to look at a
c man s uniform than talk with a man's
sou!.”-
Os the vast range of Opportunity that
| lr , c ready for the service of Youth, an
rssential portion Is to b® found in good
books. They persist because truth for
i-ver vitalizes whatever form of expres
sion it takes. It is indispensable for
the vouth. to acquire the simple technic
of mastering books, for they will serve
him with their truth to the end of his
days. But it must be constantly re
membered that as true books come into
being through the reflection and sug
gestion of environment to their writers,
so they niu.-i be read back again to the
environment of the reader. This is dis
tinctly the vitalizing process in reading,
AND WHEN READING IS NOT VI
TAL IT IS NECESSARILY DEAD
If we have a fair perception of what
reading it is best to pursue, and if we
have learned somewhat the method of
painstaking reading, the hour we can
give t<> it. even infrequently, will be
rome one of the distinct pleasure of life
Nothing But Rats
"It was a rat ship I was sailin’ in
that trip.” said the old salt, reminis
cently "One of the dlngdest rat ships
I ever saw. There was rats in it. front
bow to stern, rats in th® hold, rats in
the galley, In the steerage, In the
fo’cSle. in the c>4d man's room—every
where Rats! Nothin' hut.
"Bimeby It got so bad we had to put
in an’ get them off. So we h. >pe 1 up
to a dork and fumigated. I was on
deck, an' 1 saw them rats leavin’. 1
counted 'em. Th“y was fifteen million
of ’em."
"Fifteen million?" asked th® oth r.
"Ain’t Unit > lot o' rats? Are you
rute?"
"Sus " Yes, I'm sure Thev <*f fif
teen million rats, and 1 counted 'em
More than that, even rat weighed half
a pound. They was big, f it. sassy ones.
I’m tollin'."
"Fifteen million rats, and ever.’ one
weighed half i pound, and they till
came off your ship' That’s s t m mil
lion and a half pounds of, rat.-. Sa. - ,
Jim, what wa the tonnage of that
ship?"
"< th. about a hundred and fifty ton. ."
An Easy Epigram
' That wasn't a bad epigram nn the
magistrate's part.' said the somewhat
educated tramp, who had been convict
ed for vagrancy
"What did he say?" asked the tramp's
pal.
"Seven days," came the reply ,
"That ain't no epigram, is it?" quer
c-d Walker N". 2
Tm sure II is.” replied the vagrant.
"I asked a parson once what an epi
gram was and h" eavs ‘lt's a short
sentence that sounds light, but gives
you plenty to think about.' ’’
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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN * v. By Beatrice Fairfax
THE INITIATIVE IS YOURS.
Dear Miss Fairfax;
I met a young man at a friend's
housa. This young man called at my
house with serious intentions. The
second time he called, upon saying
good-night, he asked me when he could
see me again. The third time b- vailed
he took me to the theater, and this time
when saying good-night did not men
tion anything about calling again. Was
it my place to ask him to call, when
he did not say a word about wanting
to see me again? T. A.
it is your place to ask him to call,
though .'ou have become such great
friends he is not infringing on his
"ights in asking for the privilege. It
would be proper for you to write him
i note asking him to call, but don't urge
him. Let him know that it is not a
matter of vital importance to you if
-■ou never see him again.
DON'T SIGH SO MUCH.
Dear Miss Fairfax.
Four years it is that I am keeping com
pany with a girl two yea-s my junior. I
am twenty. A few nights ago she told ni"
she does not love me I am in a de
plorable stale. T love her and only her.
I would rather die than be away from
her What shall I do to regain her .af
fection? GRAVE.
It is my opinion she ts tiring of swli
constant love. If you w ill reply to her
by saying it is the same with you, het
indifference will at once become a very
■ivel.v interest.
If vou tell her the los* of her love
will kill you. it will not make her lov‘
vou a whit more. Love-making is a
game, and the man who moans and
sighs is playing it to lose.
THE DIFFERENCE IS IMMATERIAL.
Dear Miss Fairfax
I am eighteen and deeply in love w ith
a young man one year my junior. H
has asked me to marry him several
times, and I have always refused, be
lieving him to be too young. Do you
think the difference is too great in our
ages to marry ? DESPERATE.
The difference in your ages is too
-mall to consider for a moment. But
seventeen is too young so: a man t -
think of marrying. Pm it off tour or
five years for his sake
1 am sorry you sign y our name "Des
perate " It is too ominous, too serious
n word for a light-hearted young girl
to Include In her vocabulary. Look at
this matter mm" »ane!.'. am' ion "i
"I'ize there is nothing to be ikwew,
YOU CERTAINLY ARE.
Dear Mbs Fairfax:
I am 22 and a y oung man a few years
my senior has been calling on me for
the past three years. He is tTi love
w ith me and I have also learned to love
him. In the three years Tie has n«ve:
called to -oe any other girl. has
repe itcdl." told mo lie ' ill neve.- marry,
although ho calls regularly and often.
Am I wasting mi time?
I NDE< IDED.
He has monopolized you for three
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years and no doubt his attentions have
kept other lovers away . Plead in en
gagement the next time he want - to
<'a!l. Let the suggestion penetrate his
brain that you do not care for him, arid
do care for some one else. The effect
will he that he either' ■ ill become an
avowed suitor for your hand or will
dis ontlnue his attention.-'. Either
course "ill be better than hie present
selfish attitude.
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Daysey Mayme and Her Folks
BY FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
Daysey may.me a-ppleton
spends a great deal of time these
evenings sitting at a window’
looking out into the dark.
Although her hearing is perfectly
good, she doesn't hear when any on
addresses her. anfi when her mother
sends her to the kitchen for matches
she comes back from the parlor with a
copy of Byron.
Everything at the dinner, from soup
to cream, tastes alike her, and
unless she is watched she puts sugar
on her spinach and vinegar in her tea.
She spends more time than usual in
front of the mirror, and when she isn't
taking her hair down she is doing it up.
She is so irrational and irresponsible
that, if ecent in haste to the fire-alarm
box, she would stop to look for four
leafed clovers on the way.
For Daysey M'ayme is in love, again
and still! And the proprietor of the
drug store where her Best Beloved has
charge of the spda fountain estimates
that she has been in tfyyre as often as
thirty-seven times for soda water in
one day, and then he lost the count.
Her Best Beloved looks at the world
over a collar as high as a pasture fence.
His eyesl. to quote Daysey Xlayme, are
like “wet pansies.” which in any lan
guage but that of love means they are
watery blue.
His hail' has been driven off his fore
head by the fervor of his thinking, and
a very thin and pale gold fringe ap
pears away back on his head. He
throws soulful interest in his voice
when he asks. "Suhdab'or plain?" that
proves he has a heart beating in tender
sympathy for those who gather on the
other side of the counter.
Aunt Maria Gets a Shock,
Aunt Marie had heard so much of
his charms that the first time she,saw
him she grasped at the marble counter
for support.
Could it be? It could. And it was.
And she refused Ice cream soda, and
said she would take something that
would act as a tonic on the nerves. She
needed it badly.
The young man calls every Friday,
his only night off. and Aunt Maria was
persuaded one evening to come into the
parlor and meat.him socially.
He'.. so brilliant, so witty, so
brainy!" gasped Daysey Alayme. "It
w ill be a real inspiration to you to hear
him talk!”
Best Beloved gods to many pioving
picture shows, and moving pictures
forms the basis of his brilliant conver
sation.
T saw a good one the other night,”
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24'. WHITEHALL ST-OVER BROWN AND ALLEN’S.
lie began: "it was about George the
Wash.”
’ "Who?" faltered Aunt Marie.-
"George the Wash.” he said, and
Daysey Mayme. whose mind is quicker
than that of her aunt, stuffed her
handkerchief in her mouth to keep
from laughing.
• Yes." he said noting Aunt Maria's
dazed look with satisfaction—jt was
such a tribute to his wit. "George the
Wash. And Jeff was in it, and Burr.
Opening of a Chestnut Burr,- you
know.” he explained, and Daysey
Mayme screamed in glee.
"Oh. you are too cute for anything!"
she said, laughing till the tears came.
"He means Aaron Burr. Aunt Maria!”
Aunt Maria fanned herself with her
handkerchief and made a brave at
tempt to smile.
”1 must not allow myself to get old.”
she thought, with self-repro'ach. "I
must keep young, and the only way to
keep young is to be interested in what 1
interests the young.”
She smiled bravely and turned an ex
pectant face toward this most brilliant
of his sex.
He Certainly Is Funny,
"Do you know.” he said to Daygeg
Mayme, "I'd like to get a job pounding
the piano in a moving picture show.
I'd show those chickens who play the
piano a tune to match the picture.”
"Chickens?” said Aunt Maria. “Do
they have live chickens at the piano?”
Daysey Mayme almost blew herself
to pieces with the force of her merri
ment. "He means.” she said., and then,
ha, ha, ha. he. he, he, in every octave,
"he. means—oh, you tell her!” unable
to control her voice any longer.
"I mean the young ladies who play,”
said he. in a nice kind way. such as
one would 'adopt in explaining ,to a
child that the earth moves.
"Oh!" Aunt ’Maria felt her resolu
tion to remain young growing wabbly
in the knees. She wondered If she. had
become too old-to keep young.
'Td play ’Shall We Gather at . the
River?' when George the Wash cross.es
the Delaware,” he said, with the man
ner of one who just can't help being
witty, even when one tries, “and 'Noth
ing but Leaves' when the soldiers are
all leavjng fqr war, and”—but Aunt
Maria heard no more.
With the peals of Daysey Mayme/s
shrill laughter ringing in her ears, and
a sickening sense of defeat in her reso
lution to keep young, she staggered
down the hall to the bath room artd
turned the cold water faucet on h«r
head.
