A FACTOR IN HOME-MAKING 



stant care of flowers, the gentle stirring of the soil, lest he 

 destroy the young and tender roots, the gentle sprinkling to 

 cleanse the dust from choking leaves, the moving and trans- 

 planting of each to its own suitable and best adapted place 

 for a home, will conduce largely to a thoughtful and tender 

 handling of larger issues in the constantly uprising emergen- 

 cies of domestic life. 



Tenacity of purpose is an essential quality in the charac- 

 ter of the modern business man, drawn down as he is into the 

 constantly increasing intensity of the competition involved in 

 commerce. On many of the soft enticing mornings and eve- 

 nings of the spring, when all out-of-doors is wooing the 

 youngster to the woods, the fields, the river, or the bay, he 

 must steadfastly stick to his purpose and work in his little 

 garden. When the warm summer days come and the buzz- 

 ing of the bumblebee, the song of the mocking-bird or the 

 whiz of the hummer remind him of the retreat under the 

 honeysuckle, he knows that he must be on the alert to water 

 his plants, to destroy rapidly increasing swarms of insects 

 that now threaten his lovely budding and blooming plants 

 that he has labored so hard for all through the spring, and 

 let me tell you that none will appreciate their beauties more 

 than will "The Boy." Our boys can be trained to all this, 

 and only those who can will ever be really fitted to secure a 

 safe and steady footing in the competition of the later busi- 

 ness life. 



I need not spend many words in showing you that 

 thoroughness is a desirable quality of character. The time 



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