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1—YOUTHFUL INDUSTRY, 2—EDUCATION BY READING. 3—PREPARATION FOR PROMOTION. 4—REACHING FOR RESPONSIBILITY. 6—PERSONAL FRUGALITY. $—GRASP OF OPPORTUNITY. 7—WISE INVESTMENTS. 8—SERVICE TO COUNTRY. : _ 9—TALENT FOR ORGANIZATION. »40—RETURN OF WEALTH TO COMMUNITY. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall the career of Andrew Carnegie, the little Scotch bobbin boy who has Just died, our most humanly picturesque multi-millionaire, there are many lessons in success for the ambitious American youngster with his eyes on the throne and sceptre of the American indus- trial overlord. There could be no humbler beginning than that of “andy” Carnegie. teaches to the boy of to-day is the value of youthful industry, not only as ® foundation of material success but as « stiffener of the spine and a developer of char- acter, At eleven &s bobbin boy to help out the family income with his tiny wage of $1.20 a week, trudging to work before it was Nght in the morning and toiling till after dark at that I would subject the modern child to such a regime, but a I think the first lesson his story Carnegie went into a cotton factory very well be grafted on his constitu- sold out his interest in the Pullman Company for $10,000. His money, as he acquired it, was always placed in wise investment, and he. bas given many warnings against stock speculation. He be- Neved in making his dollars work for him. He served his adopted country dur- ing the Civil War, being made super- intendent of military railroads and) Government telegraph lines in the, Enst. He was on the field at Bull Run, in charge of communications, re- paired the rallroad between Annapolis and Washington after the Confed- erates had destroyed it, and made a telegraph cipher code for the War! Department. He acquired a frank horror of war as “a blot on civiliza- tion,” yet, when President Harrison assured him that his country de- manded he make armor for ship: Carnegie yielded as a matter of pa- | triotle duty. | | selves worth speaking about; their .| they think.” le says in his memoirs that his first $1,000 by the money a few dollars at his thrift always was tempered daring. His readiness to grasp ity swiftly and surely—a trait valuable to the business man— ted by his instant appre- of the value of the sleeping Its inventor, T. T. Woodruff, met inegie on a train. “He had not ‘spoken to me a minute,” the Laird of Bkibo declared afterward, “before, Tilke © flash, the whole range of its ‘Value buret upon me. ‘Yes,’ I said, “that is something which this cont\- ent must have.’ He took up the with the superintendent of the wivania, borrowed $200 to pay "his first instalment of capital—he then a | BELGIANS ON STATEN ISLAND RETAIN OLD CUSTOMS. HEN the Germans invaded Belgium, several of the flee- ing families sought refuge in > Bite Island, New York, says Popu- ‘WF Mechanics, where they have set- Hed permanently, adopting many ways, of course, but cling- to homeland customs are of much interest to their One of these is the use of When he reached the throne as a steel magnate he set a lesson to, busi- ness executives by practising the doc- | trine of divided responsibility. “The supremely great managers,” he has epitomized, “never do any work them- point is to make others work while And he suggested for his epitaph: “Here lies a man who knéw how to enlist ip his service better nen than himself.” Finally, he showed almost as much ability in returning to the community more than $360,000,000 as he had dis- | played in making this sum. To be sure, he kept for his wife and daughter a tidy private fortune. But in his work for peace, hif hero funds, bis Pensions for underpaid professors and former employees, his endowments of technical schools—above all, in the Ubraries, little lighthouses of culture, he built alf‘over America—he presents an admirable example to many less generous capitalists, and escapes the condemnation hp himself wrote.of “the man who dies leaving behind him mil- Mons of available wealth wich were free for him to administer during lite —the man who dies thus rich, dies dis. graced.” ‘ When Late Summer Meets Early en eke eke ke Two Smart, New Costumes Dame Fashion Has Designed as Suitable for Mil y to Wear ‘‘Between Seasons’’ Pashion's embroidery is amply met in this charming serge model in the new lons- waisted, etraight.- effect gown for early fall wear, of black and white is ccessfully shown embroidered ¢rico= lette costume for late summer days, Ignorant Essays Copyright, OFT drinks are now drunk by hard drinkers, so-called because they find soft drinks hard to drink, They come in various sizes, colors and degrees of softness, the only difference “petween them being some are injected with a straw while others require a long shafted niblick or jigger. There isn't an unkind word or a nasty look in @ barrel of them. How- ever, now and then one comes across @ soft drink that has con- sideravle kick in it, something like the kick of a canary, The soft drink industry has jured @ number of veterans from the American Bar (Rosewood) Association who toss out wicked banana splits and sinful nut sun- dees. It is true they regret not being able to fit collars to beers ‘any more, but soothe their ach- ing hearts by putting stil! higher collars on the ice cream sodas, ‘The basis of the soft drink is charged water, composed of six- fifths water and nineifths air. ‘Both free in any quantity but charged for vigorously in » By J. P. McEvoy 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) charged water—hence the name. My mathematics may be a little dizzy, but I am not accountable 45 I have just had a particularly violent raspberry. crush, Other important accessories are fruit Juices, 80 called because they are made of chemicals and stained to resemble fruits and berries. Sometimes they have some fruit in them, usually when the foun- tain chauffeur drops a banana casing or an apple core into them by mistake, One misses the mellow phil- osophy of the barkeep in the callow soft drink dispenser, so called because he has dispensed with about everything that would endear him to the rough hemale who liked the kind of tuff that loosened the back teeth and dissolved the mucous membrane on the way down, Ah, the kind old gentleman in the white weskit and sometimes white apron, he was @ sage and a cynic and a rare old, ripe old guide, philosopher and friend, One cannot compare such as he with the seltzer oootie who SOFT DRINKS } Weara patent leather hair and sneaks in to see Theda Bara in | “No Children Allowed” when- ever he thinks nobody {8 look- I ing. Only another instance of what soft drinks will do for a | feller. As hinted above, there is no mailice in the soft drink. Neither ig there a bright idea, The effervescence of poetic afflatus claims no kindred with that of earbonic acid. Could Poe have produced “The Raven” after a feverish round of root beer? No! Could Bobbie Burns have writ- ten “Tam O'Shanter” while un- der_the spell of a nut sundae? Don’t all answer at once, What then could be written with the inspiration derived from a goft drink? Gentle, or rath@r in this case, wild reader, how oan you ask when you have Just finished reading it? ea JAPAN SPINNING COTTON, The cotton spinning industry in Japan is considered by many to be as important, commercially, silk industry. The number of spinning mills increased from 162 in 1909 to 177 in 1918. ‘The authorized pital of these industries totalled 500,000 in 1918, as against $56,- 000 in 1909, ti an hice @ WESTERN Newsew ONISRE PER WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, Woman's Job in the Home _ Has Trained Her for Job In the Business World § woman coming into her very own? Are wo beginning to look upon her a9 @ psychologist in the outside world as well as in the home? Accord- ing to Dr. Albert Poffenberger of the Department of Psy- chology at Colum- bia University we are. ‘ “Woman has al- ways been ‘a psy- chologist in her . home, studying the Fan sore, soul, the mind and the mental make-up of her family, now she is coming into demand for such work in the outside business world,” Dr. Poffenberger told me as he sat in his laboratory and looked out on the campus, which was crowd- e¢ with summer students. “She has been studying her husband, her ehil- dren, the neighbors and the neigh- bors’ children for years. She knows the whys and wherefores and the ins and outs of human nature. She knows when her busband has been playing poker and when Uttle Johnny has played hookey from school and gone swimming. “All this so-called woman's instinct 1s going to guide her as a psycholo- gist. When freckle-faced Freddy or pug-nosed Pauline wander into the chifdren's courts for some misdes meanor she is going to get right at the heart of the whole thing. When Poor little misguided Minnie ts put upon probation a woman psychole- gist can do more for her than any jone else. In hospitals and public in- stitutions woman can be kind and yet firffi, she can be gentle and still | insist upon a certain amount of dis- |cipline and she seems to have the knuck of getting on with each in- dividual case in applying the mental | tests. “There is & great demand for women psychologists,” continued Dr, Poffenberger. “Many opportunities | for women are offered by the study ‘ef psychology; indeed, I might say that the bulk of the examining work is to-day done by women. Women examiners are required for the chil- dren's courts, for the probation courts, and there is constant cail for women who can give mental tests in institutions of all sorta. There is a woman psychologist at Bellevue Hos- pital and one, at Randall's Island. “There is no lack of positions for trained psychologists in the indus- trial and commercial flelds of to-day. Equipped with a knowledge of psychology, the student entering a ‘busin' concern 1s ready to wive trade tests to determine what type Of work a man is best fitted for and give a general opinion of the behavior, nature and mental make-up of an individual. RS, GRUNDY has broken out again, ‘This time while she was trying to enjoy a vacation at AtlanticCity, She. objects vigor- ously to the body apparel worn by gentlemen bathers there, Apparently Mrs, Grundy, who halls from the Capital City, is under the impression that the girlie bathers of the Jersey coast resort are being per- secuted for their scant costumes, Not so! Al season and up to the time thie little story is stereotyped, the gamboling lassies have been and are frolicking all o'er the sands, with costumes that fit in vanity cases, But Mrs. Grundy has begun an of- fensive against the Mr, Merry Man And Now tor Bathing Suits Unshapely Man Adorn the Seascapes Mrs. Grundy at Atlantic City Has Complained That He Spoils the Scenery. She Wants Him to Look Nobby, Not Knobby. Here Are Some Hints: disport his limbs, arms | who would and ankles before the eyes of those who see—something to kick about. Mrs. Grundy says the men are re- pulsive, ‘They have hairy legs; sometimes with knobs, Consider the door, it also hath knobs, say we. Most men are bow-legged, says the critic from Washington, . All girls have graceful curves and are sightly. Right-o, We are not denying that many girls have curves, Men as well as ladies have curves, They are usu- ally below the knees, and quoth an “"Twould not be hard to drive a pig through.” These bow jegs Mrs, Grundy ob- jects to in men, Very well, wegjwill cover the bows. We will cover them to the limit; yea, we shall adorn them. For is not a leg a thing of beauty? “Haye the men cover their chests, their arms and their legs, Make them wear long stockings,” she de- mands of the Atlantic City beach au- thorities, “They only clutter up good scenery,” she adds. Very well, Mrs, Washington lady, Woe herewith present a guitable gar- ment, Henceforth the bold swains will be costumed as in ye olde dayes, Long stockings, pure silk, without a seam, too; garters, also, for ‘tis neces- sary. Remember, Mrs. Washington lady, right in your own clty, the men at the ¥. M. C, A. wear nothing while pushing the filtered aqua through “eelr pink toes. Horrible! But true, old sage, ame to Make nevertheless. Birthday clothes are the order of the bath, In Chicago, the Health Committee says that skirts are dangerous. ‘Tis true, ard not an old adage, John Alden knows. The Chi, H. C, also says stockings are un- sanitary. To be sure, after Lwo weeks" wear, Therefore they suggest that these articles of apparent feminine necessity be dispensed with at the Stockyards Pools. Let Mr. Man wear a cap with pink lace frills to cover the bumps on his bald head, Drape him with a ruffled skirt to the knees; long silk ‘stockings with cerise tapes to keep ‘em up. Adorn him with non-peeking armlets, fastened with either baby ribbon or’ buttons, Place a Sir Walter Ralelgh piqued lace collar about his neck, for all men have scrawny necks. Place a red satin para- sol in, his hand with e tantalising van- Woman Psychologist Has Already Made Good, Says Dr. Poffenberger of Columbia, Because Study- ing the Family Has Given Her an Insight Into Human Nature—Many Jobs Open to Her. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) my Such tests: mean tremendous saving for the employer, since it ts possible thus to eliminate the unfit before ti! employer has undergone the expen! of training, a very large item in the huge business /organizations of to- day. “Then, too, going back further, the student ready to give what is knowp as the general intelligence tests, and more and more the pro- gressive employer is coming to want his people classified according to their abilities to advance, Here you can see woman will be very useful in Judging her own sex. It takes a wothan to know a woman every time! “I have followed the careers of a number of women psychologi: concluded Dr. Poffenberger, “and compared them to men psychologists, and while I will not say that the women excel the men they have cer- tainly done equally as well. The in- dustrial and commercial houses praise their work very highly. Wom- an's keenness combined yith her in- stinct and intuition and good common sense are of great value in this spe- cial lime, if ever a womanw “big chance has come to her it is etong this line of work. The womaw psy- chologist seems to have a field in which she fits.” When we think of women psycholo- gists and think of the dictionary def- inition of psychology—the doctrine of the soul—our minds go back to the days when the Chinese denied that woman possessed a soul. Mahomet excluded women from Paradise be- cause he believed they lacked souls. Yet to-day we are looking for wom- an psychologists! TWO MINUTES | OF OPTIMISM By Herman J. Stich A Perfect Footrule, Copyright. 1019, by The Press Publishing Co. Tie New York Evening Worldse = VERYBODY errs—that’s why they put erasers on pencils. The mightiest men mis- judge, grow bigger and broader through blunder. Experience is the process of making and un- making and making up for mis- takes. Babes out blocks with razors, time brings sense to the rescue, Your intentions being good, your mistake is generally forgivable —and remediable, = The race rises through error, Any artist will tell you that per- fection is born of eradication. From the time our tree-climbing ancestors ,warred with cocoa- nuts to these days of se¥enty- mile range cannon all progress has been a process of rectifica- tion, We learn from our mis- takes and most of us acquire a pretty good education, There is no royal road to suc- cess. Its path leads through a jungle and tangle of doing, un- doing, starting, backing, tacking, sailing and trimming with all the time a specific destination in view. It takes a good sized, wide proportioned, big-hearted, whole-souled species of opti- mism and grit to climb over the mountains of mistakes of to-day and gaze at the valley of pros- perity of to-morrow. But it's the only way, Nature occasionally makes’ a mistake and then hurriedly atones. She robbed Helen Kel- ler of sight, speech and hearing and in her fit of remorse en- dowed her with brains and sou! that burst through the empty, agonizing gloom and proclaimed her an everlasting inspiration to men afflicted with physical in- firmity and @ challenge to those whose physical faculties were sound, One of the saddest sights in the world is the man who has never made a mistake, who is always right. He's a perfect footrule. Don't expect him to grow bigger. One of these days | you'll hire him, t ity case attached thereunto, Let the tinkling bells ring out their peals from his arms and legs. Does this vatiatyy re, Grundy?