If he cannot give a reasonable degree of encouragement to those
tastes he will then become crabbed and sour. Wherever you see men crusty
and difficult to please, be sure they have had cities to take and
failed to capture them.
ALEXANDER SMITH,
a Scotch poet who died at a very early age, said very appropriately: "To
bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them
with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all
events, a moderate amount of it, is required--just as sunshine is needed
for the ripening of peaches and strawberries." Now how are you to catch
this marvelous sunshine of prosperity? Simply, do not shut it out. Your
comrade has had the moral ague. He fears that, if the sun shine on him,
it will bring a return of his fever. When the sun shines on you, do not
miss a ray. It makes you grow.
YOUR PARTICULAR DUTIES
are soon learned. Why is it that the affairs of walking behind a counter
and actually knowing what your employer pays for his goods so soon lose
the magic there once was in them? It is because the human brain is
supple, and comprehends quickly.
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