"There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave,
There are souls that are pure and true;
Then give to the world the best you have,
And the best will come back to you.

"Give love, and love to _your_ heart will flow,
A strength in your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show
Their faith in _your_ word and deed."

* * * * *

The kind of a man for you and me!
He faces the world unflinchingly,
And smiles as long as the world exists,
With a knuckled faith and force like fists:
He lives the life he is preaching of,
And loves where most is the need of love;
And feeling still, with a grief half glad,
That the bad are as good as the good are bad,
He strikes straight out for the right--and he
Is the kind of a man for you and me!

_James Whitcomb Riley_

* * * * *

After a certain age is reached in any life, the prevailing tone and
condition of that life is the resultant of the mental habits of that
life. If one have mental equipment sufficient to find and to make use of
the Science of Thought in its application to scientific mind and body
building, habit and character building, there is little by way of
heredity, environment, attainment of which he or she will not be the
master.

One thing is very certain--the mental points of view, the mental
tendencies and habits at twenty-eight and thirty-eight will have
externalized themselves and will have stamped the prevailing conditions
of any life at forty-eight and fifty-eight and sixty-eight.

* * * * *

Who puts back into place a fallen bar.
Or flings a rock out of a traveled road,
His feet are moving toward the central star,
His name is whispered in the Gods' abode.

_Edwin Markham_

* * * * *

We need changes from the duties and the cares of our accustomed everyday
life. They are necessary for healthy, normal living. We need
occasionally to be away from our friends, our relatives, from the
members of our immediate households. Such changes are good for us; they
are good for them. We appreciate them better, they us, when we are away
from them for a period, or they from us.

We need these changes to get the kinks out of our minds, our nerves, our
muscles--the cobwebs off our faces. We need them to whet agai