y to break it, so you can be
'your own man' while you are nothing but a boy or a girl? If you break
that string too soon, you are liable to tumble in the dirt as the kite
did, and go all to pieces as it did; for--don't forget this--the
things which _hold you down_ to Sunday School, to Church, to
Young People's Meeting, to _School_ and to _work_, are the
things which hold you up and lift you up, and keep you up and build
you up into _strong_, hopeful, helpful, useful, happy men and
women. Don't forget what a fool the kite was, and what happened to it!
Go as high as you can in the world but _don't break the string_!"

A STRANGE OLD EPITAPH
--Narrowness
--Broadness

A Talk to Boys Concerning the Narrow Life and the Broad Life--A
Contrast.

THE LESSON--That it is all wrong to be satisfied to be a
Mr. Nobody. Do your best and be a Mr. Somebody.

The boy whose days in school and whose hours of serious thought in the
home have opened his eyes to future years of responsibility, will
drink in the sentiment of this talk and remember the lesson when he
reaches the twists and corners of life's pathway which lies before
him.

~~The Talk.~~
~~(By Chas. D. Meigs.)~~

"I am going to tell you today of a very _narrow man_. Suppose we
call him Mr. Slim Jim. Later on, I will tell you about Mr. Broadman,
and ask you which one you would rather be when you grow up.

[Illustration: Fig. 128]

"But first, we will turn our minds to a strange old graveyard over in
England, a burying ground where there are a good many old tomb-stones
like this: [Draw Fig. 128, complete]. If you were to walk among these
old gravestones, you would find one there which would make you laugh,
even though you were in a cemetery, because the epitaph, on it is the
funniest you ever saw or heard of. It says:

"'Here Lies the Body of
John Blank.
He Was Born a Man
But
_Died a Grocer_!'

[As you speak the words slowly, draw them on the tombstone, completing
Fig. 129.]

[Illustration: Fig. 129]

"Did you ever hear anything to beat that? Now, that isn't anything
against grocery men. A grocery man may be just as good a man as the
preacher himself--and just as respectable. We can't get along in this
world without groceries, and we just have to have men who will sell
them to us. Then what was the matter wi