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:

(This is a motto

"Perfection to the finish." 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."

"Don't wait for your opportunity, make it." "Will finds a way, or makes one."

"This one thing I do."

"Dare to live thy creed."

"Find your purpose, and fling your life out to it." "Try to be somebody with all your might." "Self-made or never made."

"Character is greater than any career."

"Do not wait for great opportunities; seize common occasions and make them great." "Guard your weak point."

"Look upward; live upward."

"Do not turn your back on troubles; meet them squarely."

Whatever you do for a living have a rousing, inspiring life slogan that will keep your ambition stirred up, and your brain cells alive, so that you will have the mental vision that sees opportunities and the grit to grasp them with that vigor, determination, and intensity which achieve.

If you have not selected your motto or word of power yet, do so.

Do not choose a money-making motto, but one which will cause you to aspire, which will help to round out and complete a full life; a motto which shall ever be to you a pole star, guiding you to your goal.

It is never too late to adopt a motto or slogan, to begin to improve ourselves or our condition. There are tens of thousands of people in the great

failure army to-day who in six months' time, if they applied themselves, could so jack up their ambition, prod their energies and improve their appearance that they would scarcely know themselves. It is just a question of keeping one's ambition up, not allowing it to sag.

I know men who had apparently lost their ambition, who had been literally down and out, but who, by the reading of an inspiring book, listening to a sermon, the coming of some unexpected responsibility, or by some other seemingly simple thing which thoroughly aroused them to their possibilities, were so completely transformed in a few months that they did not seem like the same men.

Not only choose a life slogan and keep it ever in mind, but keep inspiring books close at hand, keep one in your pocket, if you can, which will stir you to the depths of your soul, spur your ambition and keep you continually up to standard so that your ideals will never fade or ambition sag.

KEEP SWEET

A sunny disposition is the very soul of success.

Mathews.

"You must take joy with you or you will not find it even in Heaven."

"It was only a glad 'good morning,'
As she passed along the way,

But it spread the morning's glory
Over the livelong day."

"Smiles are the only potentials known that move things whether they intend to move or not."

O

VER all of the telephones in the Western Express Company's offices is a card, bearing the legend, TIPS FOR TOPNOTCHERS, under which are these words:

"The other end of the telephone reproduces only your voice. It gives no other inkling of your disposition. WEAR A SMILE IN YOUR VOICE. It consumes no extra time, costs nothing —and makes friends."

Think what it would mean if the millions of people who telephone every day were to wear a smile in their voice! What a volume of harmony would take the place of the volume of discord which flows daily over the telephone wires! How it would ease the burden and the strain of life if