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and especially for a greater amount of courage and 

 aggressiveness in form of permanent life habits. 



But one might well wish that all rural parents could 

 realize the evil consequences of being impatient with 

 the son in respect to his choice of a life work. Many a 

 good boy yet in his teens is hounded and driven about 

 by the continuous nagging of his parents, who ig- 

 norantly believe that he should have his future des- 

 tiny all planned and ready for its realization. As a 

 result, this same good boy is often driven to despera- 

 tion and to the point of leaving the home place 

 of breaking away from the affectionate ties that bind 

 him to parents, and of seeking the position wherein 

 he might earn a living. As a matter of fact, few 

 young men have any very clear or reliable vision of 

 their future life at the age of eighteen, or even twenty. 

 Many of the best men in the world are faltering and 

 uncertain even as late as twenty-five. However, if 

 the relatives and friends would only exercise all due 

 patience, offering only such helps and suggestions 

 as can be given, and trusting the future finally to 

 throw upon the problem a light from within the 

 youth himself then, we may be assured, practi- 

 cally every man will finally come to some line of 

 effort that will bring him a comfortable living. 



WHAT OF PREDESTINATION? 



The old-fashioned idea of a boy's being marked 

 by the hand of destiny, "cut out for" some particular 



