Life — January 7, 1904 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- Heart to Heart Talks. By Cuauxcry Derot. This department has been opened for the benefit of our younger readers, all of whom, we feel sure. are anxtous to grow up into successful men and women. It will be conducted each week by a different person—some one who has become prominent and who is qualified to give adcice in his own eld. We cannot begin to tell our young readers how glad and proud we are to bein Us humble manner the moral agent through which 89 much good advice will go forth to our million readers, but Uf as many new subscribers come tn as we hope and pray, then we shall indeed feel ax if our work had not been in vain. Dear Little Boys and Girls: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to talk to you to-day, not only because I dearly like to talk, but because what I say may seem fresher to you than it does to others. You sce, the older folks know me better than you do. I can say things to you that might be tiresome to others, which you might like because you had never heard them before. I suppose you are all ambitious and want to get on in the world, and that is why I am standing before you now, to show you just what todo. Of course, you cannot all hope to be as great or good a manas I am, but you can travel along the same road if you only will. Let me ask, in the beginning, if any little boy or girl here knows what the word Bluff means? Now, I hope you won't get this useful little word mixed up with anything you have seen in your geographies, for it means something different alto- gether. No one knows? I thought so. Now, don’t think I am going to tell you the exact meaning of this little word—not that I wouldn't do so if I could—but there are some words that only experience will teach you the meaning of, and Bluff is one of them, Dear children, I started out with a large Bluff, and cultivated it so well that here I am, a really great man. Thisis what you must do, Take ** Bluff"’ for your motto, and by and by, when you have learned the meaning of it, you will also have learned how to use it. Now, if some of you were older than you are, you would know more about me than you do, and you would also know that it takes more than Bluff to get on in the world, and you would be perfectly right in thinking so. You must know how to talk, dear children. You can't throw a Bloff any distance at all, unless you do it with a good line of talk. And I have known how to do this so well that here Iam one of the alleged greatest men in the world. But you mustn't get the idea that, even by throwing a Bluff and being able to talk, you cam always succeed, Something else is needed, and I merely meution it to show you that it takes so much to be really successful, Everybody knows, who knows me at all, that I am tiresome, and there are those who consider me a good deal of a humbug, and some people in the railroad business have even gone so far as to say that I talked too much for my own good. But I guess they were jealous, don’t you? “It gives me a great deat of pleasure to talk —" Well, you will want to know what that something comicbooks.com