= Character 
Lessons to 
Train Youth 
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‘By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
_ {Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
; opment League.] 
N “Golden Win- 
dows” Mrs. 
Richards tells a 
story of a boy who 
was very dirty in 
dress and _ habits. 
His good angel 
came one day and, 
seeing the filthy 
surroundings, said: 
“This will never 
do. You must go 
out with your 
brother while I 
straighten out the 
house.” “I have no 
brother,” said the 
boy. “Oh, yes, you have. You go out 
and he will soon come to you.” The 
child went out, and shortly a squirrel 
came along, and the boy said, “Are 
you my brother?” The squirrel look- 
ed him over carefully and said: ‘Well, 
I should think not. Do you mean to 
- insult me? I take great pains to keep 
my fur and tail in fine condition.” 
A wren flew up and when asked if 
he were a brother said: ‘‘No, indeed! 
What impertinence! I plume my 
feathers and keep them clean.’’ Pres- 
ently a pig came trotting along. The 
boy did not like to speak to it be- 
cause it was so dirty, but the pig call- 
ed out, ‘Hello, brother!” “I am not 
your brother,” said the boy. “Oh, yes, 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
you are! There is no mistaking the 
members of my family. Come and 
roll in the mud with me.” “I don’t like 
to roll in the mud,” said the boy. ‘Tell 
that to the hens. Look at your hands 
and clothes.” Just then the good an- 
gel came out and said: “I have set 
everything right, and it must stay 
right. Will you come and be a tidy 
boy, or will you go and hereafter live 
with the pig brother?” 
To maintain one’s self respect ne- 
cessitates neatness and cleanliness of 
person, and this goes far toward win- 
ning the respect.of others. 
No one can help a feeling of disgust 
at untidiness, and, moreover, want of 
cleanliness breeds disease. Cleanli- 
ness is the first law of health. But, 
above all, uncleanliness is to lose one’s 
own self respect as well as to be an 
object of disgust to others. Be not 
only neat in externals, but more so in 
what is concealed from view. It is 
in cleanliness and neatness that self 
respect is most fostered. 
- Nikola Tesla says: 
>? 
“Hyery one 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
should consider his body as a_ price- 
less gift from one whom he loves 
above all; a marvelous work of art, 
of indescribable beauty and mastery 
beyond human conception and so del- 
icate that a word, a breath, a look— 
nay, a thought—may injure it.” 
“T believe in the sacredness of the 
human body, this transient dwelling 
place of a living soul, and so I deem 
it the duty of every man and woman 
to keep his or her body beautiful 
through right thinking and right liv- 
ing,” says Jeremy Taylor. ‘Our par- 
ents have told us that of some mat- 
ters we may speak only to them; of 
some other matters we should not 
speak at all.” 
Impure thoughts are far worse than 
unclean hands. They should be shun- 
ned as the plague. Impure thoughts 
RO pollute the stream 
of life at its very 
source and defile 
one’s whole nature. 
They infect the im- 
agination and de- 
stroy the ability to 
appreciate and en- 
joy the things that 
uplift and ennoble. 
Impure thoughts 
lead to impure acts. 
They bind a mill- 
stone about’ the 
neck, which will 
surely cast one into the sea of imbe- 
cility and contempt. How ashamed 
one would be if his thoughts were 
suddenly exposed to the world and 
found to be unclean! 
In a certain degree impure thoughts 
are always revealed in the face, and 
those who have insight and experience 
can immediately see all the loath- 
someness of such a mind. The man 
who has governed his thoughts has 
mastered his passions and has put his 
body-under him. 
The impress that a man makes on 
mankind depends upon what he be- 
lieves, upon what he loves, and men of 
pure thoughts shine like stars and make 
others purer by being purely shone 
upon. One of the benefits derived from 
poetry is that it fills a mind so full of 
beautiful thoughts that there {fs no 
room for impure imaginings. 
Practice.—Let each child say to him- 
self when impure acts and thoughts 
entice, “Can I tell my mother?” 
NIKOLA ‘4HsLa. 
Literature. 
The lilies say, ‘‘Behold how we 
Preach, without words, of purity.” 
—Christina G. Rossetti. 
Guard well thy thoughts— 
Our thoughts are heard in heaven. 
—Edward Young. 
His strength was as the strength of ten 
Because his heart was pure. 
—Tennyson. 
’Tis easy to make friends among the 
angels when you dwell high.—Basford. 
Live with men as if God saw you; 
speak to God as though men heard 
you.—Seeca. 
Blessed are the pure in heart, for 
they shall see God.—Jesus, 
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