s possessions in order to show that he has achieved something. A
greater wealth should flow from his lips, and express itself in his
manner.

No amount of natural ability or education or good clothes, no amount of
money, will make you appear well if you use poor English.

CHAPTER XVIII

A FORTUNE IN GOOD MANNERS

Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of
palaces and fortunes wherever he goes; he has not the trouble of
earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.--EMERSON.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.--GERMAN PROVERB.

What thou wilt,
Thou must rather enforce it with thy smile,
Than hew to it with thy sword.
SHAKESPEARE.

Politeness has been compared to an air cushion, which, although there
is apparently nothing in it, eases our jolts wonderfully.--GEORGE L.
CAREY.

Birth's gude, but breedin's better.--SCOTCH PROVERB.

Conduct is three fourths of life.--MATTHEW ARNOLD.

"Why the doose de 'e 'old 'is 'ead down like that?" asked a cockney
sergeant-major angrily, when a worthy fellow soldier wished to be
reinstated in a position from which he had been dismissed. "Has 'e 's
been han hofficer 'e bought to know 'ow to be'ave 'isself better. What
use 'ud 'e be has a non-commissioned hofficer hif 'e didn't dare look
'is men in the face? Hif a man wants to be a soldier, hi say, let 'im
cock 'is chin hup, switch 'is stick abart a bit, an give a crack hover
the 'ead to hanybody who comes foolin' round 'im, helse 'e might just
has well be a Methodist parson."

The English is somewhat rude, but it expresses pretty forcibly the fact
that a good bearing is indispensable to success as a soldier. Mien and
manner have much to do with our influence and reputation in any walk of
life.

"Don't you wish you had my power?" asked the East Wind of the Zephyr.
"Why, when I start they hail me by storm signals all along the coast.
I can twist off a ship's mast as easily as you can waft thistledown.
With one sweep of my wing I strew the coast from Labrador to Cape Horn
with shattered ship timber. I can lift and have often lifted the
Atlantic. I am the terror of all invalids, and to keep me from
piercing to the very marrow of their bones, men cut down forests for
their fires and explore the mines of continents for coal to feed their
furnaces. Under my breath the nations crouch in sepulchers. Don't you
wish you had my power?"

Zephyr made