paint my dreams and my visions," was Raphael's reply to one who had asked him how he made his marvelous pictures. Back of the work ever glows the dream, the aspiration of the worker. Its nature determines whether we shall fulfill the high purpose of our being, or become castaways, flotsam and jetsam on life's ocean.

To Winchester, the oldest boys' public school in England, the founder gave a motto which it retains to this day in its quaint old English form, "Manners makyth man."

Equally inspiring are the mottoes of some of our own colleges and universities, such as Yale's "Lux et Veritas" ("Light and truth"), and Wellesley's "Not to be ministered unto but to minister."

On the entrance gates to Cornell University, erected by Andrew D. White, is the following inscription:

"So enter that daily thou mayst become more learned and thoughtful;

"So depart that daily thou mayst become more useful to thy country and mankind."

Possibly there is no place where mottoes can be used with better effect than in a schoolroom. It is the custom of some teachers to write inspiring mottoes each day on the board and to require their pupils to commit them to memory. The following selections are especially helpful in school work:

"Give a youth resolution and the alphabet, and who shall place limits to his career?"

"We get out of life just what we put into it." Not many things indifferently, but one thing supremely, is the demand of the hour.

"When you are good to others you are always best to yourself."

What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life.

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

"Many things half done do not make one thing well done."

Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.

We stamp our own values upon ourselves and cannot expect to pass for more.

"Your talent is your call."

"Aim high and hold your aim."

"Worth makes the man; the want of it, the fellow."

Business men are recognizing more and more the value of decorating the walls of their offices, workshops, and factories with mottoes embodying the value of industry, economy, sobriety, thoroughness, cheerfulness, and politeness. In the editorial offices of a New York newspaper the following motto, "Terseness; Accuracy; Terseness," is prominent in several places. On the desks of many

business men is the suggestive motto "Do it now." Sometimes this motto is supplemented by the words "and do it to a finish." The president of a large New York concern uses mottoes in hundreds of ways. He has mottoes printed on his business. cards, on his billheads,—in fact, on almost every kind of printed matter that he uses.

"Dare and do" was the motto of the brilliant editor, Jeannette L. Gilder. Hamlin Garland's guiding principle has always been embodied in the one word "Concentration." And ex-Speaker Cannon's motto is one that everyone might adopt for the good of all: "I am going to keep my face toward the East. You will never find me down among the pessimists prophesying damnation for the human race."

Another universally helpful motto is Edward Everett Hale's:

"Look up, and not down;

Look out, and not in;

Look forward, and not backward:
Lend a hand."

We find the getting-ahead idea in a great many mottoes, very many of which were born of the necessity of finding work, or of doing more effective work.

The first experience of Mr. Girard, a great Philadelphia merchant on his arrival in this country aptly illustrates this. "When I stepped ashore from the sailing vessel," he said, "I was without

money or friends. I spoke to a man on the wharf, and asked him what to do. He replied:

"Work, young man. Have you any motto?' "'No,' I said. 'What do you mean?'

"Every man must have a motto,' he said. 'Now, think of one. Go out and hunt for work.' "I started, thinking of a motto. As I walked along the street, I saw, painted on a door, the word 'Push.' I said, "That shall be my motto.' I did push at that door, and entered an office. I was asked what I wanted. I said, 'Work; and the word on your door gave me not only a motto, but confidence, and I ventured to ask you for employment.'

"My manner pleased the man. He asked me many questions, all of which were answered promptly. He said, at length :

"I want a boy of "push," and, as you have adopted that for your motto, I will try you.'

"He did. My success followed, and the motto that made my fortune will make that of others— 'Push.'"

A good motto with the ring of faith as well as hustle in it is this: "Your own will come to you if you hold the thought firmly—and hustle." Another as staunch and stimulating is: "Life is not the holding of a good hand, but the playing of a poor hand well."

A correspondent who has kept a small notebook in which he jots down mottoes and quotations

since he entered high school in 1895 writes me that he has found the following especially helpful:

"Every day is a fresh beginning,

Every morn is the world made new."
"When in doubt move to the front."
"When progress ceases decay begins."
"The thing that goes the farthest,
Towards making life worth while,
That costs the least and does the most
Is just a pleasant smile."

"'When in doubt move to the front,' says my correspondent," has meant much to me. It has influenced my course when, at critical moments, I was pondering which way to turn. I have learned that at such times one way leads onward and upward; one course leads to the front. I have sometimes come to a point where, for the moment, I did not know which of two lines of action to take, but I could always tell which was best when I asked myself 'Which leads to the front?' "

There are mottoes to fit every aspiration, resolution, and mood. The following are a string of pearls:

"Perfection to the finish." (This is a motto which every youth should adopt.)

"Integrity is a precious thing, above rubies, gold, creeds, kingdoms. It is the poor man's capital. It gives credit, safety, power."

"Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go over the road again."