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thought and it is a waste of time and effort to expect 

 much of them ; but the boys and girls, the yoang folks 

 just growing up, are impressionable, they are eager for 

 new experiences and it will pay to put an environment 

 about them that will fix the character of those im- 

 pressions. 



It is very frequently more than insinuated that a 

 body cannot hail from the " windy city" in these days 

 and not begin immediately to blow about the big 

 things Chicago is doing and the great show Chicago is 

 going to have, but I want to say to the young people 

 here, that while Chicago may do a little talking now 

 and then, she really don't mean to be selfish or over- 

 boastful. 



Indeed a proverbial outcome of our great coming Ex- 

 position that troubles some of us is not that Chicago 

 will not get enough credit (trust her for that), but that so 

 many thousands are already there and will go there from 

 all over this State and the whole United States and the 

 world and look at all those magnificent buildings till 

 their eyes ache, and walk about among all the wonder- 

 ful things that will be there till their legs ache and 

 then come away empty-handed and empty-headed, 

 leaving it all behind, every marvelous piece of mechan- 

 ism, every exquisite piece of statuary or painting, every 

 curious bit of the old world, every one of the specimens 

 of humanity and other animals that will swarm there 

 and meet them at every turn. It would please me im- 

 mensely if I could make a bit of a suggestion that would 

 enable every one of you young folks to bring home with 

 you (and of course you will all be there) a good solid 

 chunk of something valuable, something different to 

 anything you have in your homes now, something that 

 will be pleasant to think about and remember as part 

 of the great Columbian Exposition as long as you live. 



