d her velvet
cheeks as he took her warm hand in his; recalls sadly that if he had
only given that hand "a square deal," played it in the game of life,
he would have had "a full house" now.

* * * * *

Would you like to become young? Then tap new reservoirs of youthful
thoughts, irrigate your alkali desert from the fountains of youth,
become youthfully active in some new field of work. Vanderbilt added
$100,000,000 to his fortune after he was eighty. Wordsworth earned the
Laureateship at seventy-three. Theirs established the French Republic
and became its first president at seventy-two. Verdi wrote "Falstaff"
at eighty. Sir Walter Scott was $600,000 in debt when he was
fifty-five, but thru his own efforts he paid all and made himself a
lasting name.

* * * * *

Book knowledge is not all. A wealthy, fond father, fearing his son
would be contaminated by college life, had him educated at home. When
he was twenty-one, he took him to ride thru the streets of the city.
They passed a female seminary just as the doors opened and a crowd of
young women came out. The dear boy grabbed his father's arm and cried,
"What are those?" His father replied, "They are only goslins." Later
in the day, the fond father said: "My son, you have obeyed me, have
faithfully completed your education, now I am ready to spend $50,000
to give you the highest ambition of your life." The boy looked up in
glad wonder and said: "O, dad, give me a goslin."

=Lesson Second

SUPREME CONTROL OF AGE=

=YOUTH IS ETERNAL:= Nature never grows old. The flowers that
bloomed in Eden are blooming to-day. Just as lovely, just as sweet,
just as fresh and unchanged. The roses your life-mate brings home to
you, have the same fragrance as the roses Adam brought to Eve, if he
thought of it. The lovely stars that glitter in the azure fields above
you tonight, have the same loveliness that gleamed in tremulous glory
down upon the shepherds beyond Bethlehem. The radiant, life giving
rays of the sun that ten thousand, thousand years ago warmed mother
earth into vernal spring life, are the same life giving rays that
shall bring again the spring-tide. Life never grows old, it only
changes form. Your life is perpetual, then your youth may be
perpetual. The human race is ever young, its units fall off. You
should be younger at sixty, than at sixteen, because you have more
of life. Growing old is a habit