When the other firms show dizziness, Who can scare it? Scare the firm of Grin and Barrett? From "Songs of the Average Man," Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. Sam Walter Foss. CHALLENGE Napoleon is reported to have complained of the English that they didn't have sense enough to know when they were beaten. Even if defeat is unmistakable, it need not be final. A battle may be lost, but the campaign won; a campaign lost, but the war won. L' IFE, I challenge you to try me, Shatter every dream I've cherished, Fill my heart with ruthless fear; Thus I dare you; you can try me, Permission of Jean Nette. YOUR MISSION One of the most often-heard of sentences is "I don't know what I'm to do in the world." Yet very few people are ever for a moment out of something to do, especially if they do not insist on climbing to the top of the pole and waving the flag, but are willing to steady the pole while somebody else climbs. IF you cannot on the ocean Sail among the swiftest fleet, If you cannot in the conflict Prove yourself a soldier true; To fail is not a disgrace; the disgrace lies in not trying. In his old age Sir Walter Scott found that a publishing firm he was connected with was heavily in debt. He refused to take advantage of the bankruptcy law, and sat down with his pen to make good the deficit. Though he wore out his life in the struggle and did not live to see the debt entirely liquidated, he died an honored and honorable man. I CALL no fight a losing fight If, fighting, I have gained some straight new If, fighting, I turned ever toward the light, Miriam Teichner. Permission of Miriam Teichner. TIMES GO BY TURNS The ins One of the greatest blessings in life is alteration. become outs, the outs ins; the ups become downs, the downs ups; and so on-and it is better so. We must not get too highly elated at success, for life is not all success. We must not grow too downcast from failure, for life is not all failure. may grow again, THE lopped tree in time new both fruit and flower; The sorriest wight may find release of pain, The driest soil suck in some moistening shower; Time goes by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. The sea of Fortune doth not ever flow; She draws her favors to the lowest ebb; Her loom doth weave the fine and coarsest web; Not always fall of leaf, nor ever Spring; The roughest storm a calm may soon allay. A chance may win that by mischance was lost; That net that holds no great takes little fish; In some things all, in all things none are crost; Few all they need, but none have all they wish. Unmingled joys here to no man befall; Who least, hath some; who most, hath never all. Robert Southwell. TO-DAY The past did not behold to-day; the future shall not. We must use it now if it is to be of any benefit to mankind. O here hath been dawning Think, wilt thou let it Out of Eternity This new day is born; At night will return. Behold it aforetime Here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Thomas Carlyle. UNAFRAID HAVE no fear. What is in store for me I Shall find me ready for it, undismayed. God grant my only cowardice may be From "The Quiet Courage," Stewart & Kidd Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. Everard Jack Appleton. |