Life — October 2, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

MAROONED. A. D. 2000. of delightfally written articles upon various phases of Oriental life. They would season the driest geography lesson, and paucity of years is not necessary to their enjoyment. (Ginn and Company, Boston.) A little story from the French of André Theuriet, called A Mistress of Many Moods, is a good fill gap for leisure hour. The attitude of a French realist trying to be good isunlike any- thing else in print and is unbearable in a long novel, but in this little volume the effect of M.Theurict’s ft of morality is quite charming. (The Abbey Press, 50c.) J.B. Kerfoot. Chesterfield Sandbag to His Son. MY DEAR BOY: The practice of virtue ennobles the cares 2 of business if you subordinate ASS your virtue to your business. A = discriminating philanthropy covers the cracks ina shop-worn decalogue. Charity begins at home, and when it goes abroad its journey should be chronicled in the press. Char- ity, not business, needs publicity, Kind deeds are never lost when you have them where you can put your hand on them. An honest business man is nover afraid to take the pub- lic into his confidence when he has something he knows the public ought to have. Confidence is the basis of pros- perity; if you give the people your confidence they will give you their prosperity, but transact the exchange with- out ostentation. Ostentation is the badge of tho ill-bred and unwise financier. Russell Sage is unostentatious. In all your enterprises have faith in the common people. Let the rich and prosperous bear the anxiety and uncertainty of bonds and preferred stocks, but see that the common people get the common stock. The free American people are sticklers for the right to vote; the purse-proud parvenu prefers dividends. Don’t be a kicker ; the bronco is not as valuable as the slow carriage horse, even if more picturesque, Denuncia- tion pays no dividends ; only the demagogue or the peda- gogue denounce. Yellow dogs bark and bay the moon ; 285 the wise fox, seeking the shady ways, secures the nocturnal chicken. Therefore do not protest too much ; protests are the business of tho banks. Capital is the blood of business; the financial practitioner knows how to tap the veins without dis- tarbing the arteries. You need capital at all times, but proceed with care and caution always. Never needlessly alarm the bird you are trying to snare. A few grains of corn and a net are better than a shotgun. A wise business man knows how to raise the wind; the amateur raises a storm and drives capital into a tornado cellar. Eschew the dangerous and criminal classes; avoid the pit- falls that have marked your aged father’s trail through life. The dan- gerous classes are the acquisitive and inquisitive operators in finance; the criminal classes are those who have lost the confidence of the financial centers and have stimulated the rude curiosity of the police. Joseph Smith. ru “Bors, BOYS, YOU OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED, IDLING Youn TIME AWAY! WHY ARE YOU NoT IN scHooL?" “aw, OU'WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN, W2ES GO TO NIOUT SCHOOL.” comicbooks.com