SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VIII. 869 



known enough of the nature of human beings to combat successfully 

 with this question. Motherhood must include more than housekeeping. 

 Home making is housekeeping and a hundred percent more. And since 

 character is more than body, she must be prepared to educate and care 

 for more than the body. So our average boy must have more than 

 an average mother. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE YOUNG MEN OF TODAY. 



BY MRS. E. J. ORR BEFORE HARRISON COUNTY FAUMERS' INSTITUTE. 



There never was a time in the worlds histoi'y when high success 

 in any profession or calling demanded harder or more earnest labor than 

 now. Men can no longer go at a single leap *into eminent positions. 

 Opportunities do not spring up spontaneous like weeds. It is impos- 

 sible to succeed in a hurry. 



But for the young man with the right material in his make up 

 there are still many possibilities. But he must not expect to find them 

 in the saloon nor by the fireside amid the fumes of tobacco smoke. 

 There are scores of young men all over the land who want to accumu- 

 late wealth and yet every day scorn such opportunities as really rich 

 men would improve. They are not willing to begin at the foot of the 

 ladder, but half way up or even at the top. They expect their parents 

 to start them where they leave off not willing to stand the arduous 

 struggles the parents have endured. 



To begin at the foot of the ladder and work slowly to the top seems 

 a very discouraging process and here it is that thousands of young men 

 have made shipwrecks of their lives. 



First of all a choice of business or occupation should be made and 

 made early with a wise reference to capacity and taste and then the 

 youth should be educated for it and in it as far as possible and then 

 he must persue it with industry, energy and enthusiasm. 



Having an ideal in life is what makes the man. Whatever a mans' 

 talents and advantages may be with no aim or a low one, he is weak 

 and despisable, while with a high aim he is respectable and influential. 

 Without some definite object before him, some standard which he is 

 earnestly striving to reach, he can not expect to attain any great height 

 either mentally or morally. Mankind everywhere are desirous of 

 achieving success of making the most of life» but many have not the 

 will power to make the necessary exertion. Don't think I measure a 

 mans success by the number of dollars he accummulates, for many a 

 rich man has died a failure. The world is no better for his having 

 lived in it. We are in the world to make the world better, to lift it up 

 to higher levels of enjoyment and happiness. It is a law of our intel- 

 lectual and moral being that we promote our own happiness in exact 

 proportion that we contribute to the happiness of others. God in his 

 infiinite goodness has so ordained that one can not work for self alone 

 and be successful. He may accummulate wealth but he is not happy, 



