Every successful life is marked by industry, by re

finement, and by character. Of all the best men and women you know, not one is a loafer; not one is a boor; not one is a crook. All are faithful workers; all are fitted to enjoy some of the best things of life; all are clean, wholesome, and upright in mind and heart, and are unselfishly serving their fellow men.

School life is intended to develop these three qualities: it helps boys and girls to find suitable life work and fits them to do it, develops their appreciation of art, music, and literature, and cultivates the qualities of sterling character. After school life is over, education continues in the same ways. Growing on the job, filling each position capably while preparing for the next higher job, keeping the mind alert for a larger and better service this and only this insures promotion. grows in culture as he grows in workmanship. Listening to good music, looking at good pictures, reading good books increase one's powers of enjoyment. So, too, with character. Honesty, clean-mindedness, selfrestraint, and other virtues are strengthened by each successful battle.

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The only rule for success is to keep growing in industry, refinement, and character. Such growth is the chief business of youth. The value of every course in school, every recreation, every task outside of school is to be measured by the way it helps you grow in ability to work, in ability to enjoy, and in ability to practise self-control.

CHOOSE A BOOK

1. Beveridge, Albert J., The Young Man and the World. Appleton. How to learn your own possibilities for success and how to start out in the direction for which you are fitted.

2. Coe, Fannie E., Heroes of Every Day Life. Ginn.

Many stories of heroism: engineers; telegraphers; and life-savers.

3. Dearmer, Mabel, A Child's Life of Christ. Methuen & Co., London. The story of the greatest life ever lived on earth.

4. Deland, Ellen Douglas, A Successful Venture. Wilde.

How four plucky girls and their younger brother earned their own living when misfortunes came.

5. Drysdale, William, Helps for Ambitious Boys and Helps for Ambitious Girls. Crowell.

Life careers open to young men and young women and the qualities necessary for success in each career.

6. Every Day Heroes; Retold from St. Nicholas. Century.

Was Walter Harvey a coward? Why did the fireman get a medal? How did a boy save a ship? How was Ulric saved? What was the grit of the chemist's helper? Read to find the answers.

7. Gore, John Rogers, The Boyhood of Abraham Lincoln. Bobbs Merrill.

How Lincoln, a child of the wilderness, lived through his early childhood among the hills of Kentucky. How he won the nickname "Abe."

8. Holland, Rupert Sargent, Historic Boyhoods and Historic Girlhoods. Jacobs.

Stories of the youth of great men and women.

9. Kipling, Rudyard, Kim. Doubleday.

The son of a British soldier, brought up in India, has many adventures with a wandering teacher, and is trained for his life work in that land. 10. Morgan, James, Theodore Roosevelt: the Boy and the Man. Macmillan.

Story of the foremost American of his day; his Southern mother and Northern father; his life in the West; his recreations and home life.

11. Miller, Mary Rogers, Out-Door Work. Doubleday.

The best ways of earning money by out-of-door work.

12. Richardson, Anna Steese, The Girl Who Earns Her Own Living. Rickey.

How a girl just finishing the grammar school may become self-supporting. 13. Roosevelt, Theodore, and Lodge, Henry Cabot, Hero Tales from History. Century.

Sketches of famous men and of dramatic events in American history.

14. Sweetser, Kate Dickinson, Ten American Girls from History. Duffield.

Stories of Pocahontas, Mollie Pitcher, Clara Barton, Louisa M. Alcott, Clara Morris, and five other American girls.

15. Tappan, Eva March, Heroes of Progress.

Houghton.

Stories of thirty men and women of our country whose success lay in the value of their service to us all, from John Audubon, lover of birds, to George W. Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal.

16. Trowbridge, John Townsend, Jack Hazard and His Fortunes. Winston.

Story of a canal boy who made his own way.

17. Wade, Mary H., Real Americans. Little, Brown.

Stories of six American leaders, who found their work, fitted themselves for it, and accomplished it: Roosevelt, Hoover, Wood, Burroughs, Clemens, and Hale.

18. Twombly, Frances D., and Dana, John C., Romance of Labor. Macmillan.

A collection of stories from great writers showing the human interest in agriculture, fishing, engineering, manufacture, herding, lumbering, mining, and science.

19. Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens), The Prince and the Pauper. Harper..

By a strange accident a prince becomes a poor boy and a beggar boy becomes a king; both learn by interesting adventures the best qualities of manhood.

20. Weaver, Eli Witwer, Building a Career. Association Press. This book has a chapter on the life work you might like to do.

21. Whitehead, Harold, Your Job. Biddle. Business Publications, New York.

How to choose a job; how to secure a job; how to hold a job; how to grow on a job. Seventeen qualities that a successful man or woman must possess.

What are you planning to do during the next summer vacation? If you are going to work for wages, perhaps you will find profit in this selection. Read it to see what characteristics are valuable in applying for a job.

"You don't deserve a job!"

The tall young man who had stood beside Billy Lanford in the office of the Carrigan Construction Company had followed him out and now stood at his elbow in the street, apparently with the sole purpose of delivering his decidedly personal comment.

Billy had just failed to secure the place of timekeeper for which he had applied. He had wanted the place very much indeed; he had made up his mind to earn money this summer, and the timekeeper at Carrigan's received ten dollars a week for what Billy had understood was only very moderate exertion. Now the sudden sharp criticism from a stranger sounded like an insult. Billy flared.

"Well, say!" he began.

"Don't get angry, now," interrupted the other, his bright brown eyes holding Billy's steadily. "You thought you could get that job when you went in there, didn't you?"