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Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent 



Taking Stock 

 Just stand aside and watch yourself go by ; 

 Think of yourself as he, instead of I. 

 Interpret all your motives just as though 

 You looked on one whose aims you did not know. 

 Let undisguised contempt surge through you 



when 

 You see you shirk. O commonest of men. 



Despite your cowardice, condemn whate er 

 You note of falseness in you anywhere. 



Defend not one defect that shames your eye 



Just stand aside and see yourself go by. 

 And then, with eyes unveiled to what you loathe. 

 To sins that with "sweet charity" you'd clothe. 

 Back to yourself — walled tenement you'll go 

 With tolerance to all who dwell below. 



The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink. 

 Love's chain grow stronger by one mighty link ; 

 When you with he as substitute for I, 

 Have stood aside and watched yourself go by. 



There is no defeat except from within. There 

 is really no unsurmountable barrier save your 

 own inherent weakness of purpose. — R. 11'. Emer- 

 son. 



A NEW PROPRIETOR 



May he conduct a "First-class Place" 



