Roosevelt on Courage.

Governor Roosevelt writes in the May St. Nicholas of the qualities we expect to find in the young American. A boy needs both physical and moral courage, he says. Neither can take the place of the other. When boys become men they will find out that there are some soldiers very brave in the field who have proved timid and worthless as politicians, and some politicians who show an entire readiness to take chances and assume responsibilities in civil affairs, but who lack the fighting edge when opposed to physical danger. In each case, with soldiers and politicians alike, there is half a virtue. The possession of the courage of the soldier does not excuse the lack of courage in the statesman, and even less does the possession of the courage of the statesman excuse shrinking on the field of battle. Now, this is all just as true of boys. A coward who will take a blow without returning it is a contemptible creature; but, after all, he is hardly as contemptible as the boy who dares not stand up for what he deems right against the sneers of his companions who are themselves wrong. Ridicule is one of the favorite weapons of of wickedness, and it is sometimes incomprehensible how good and brave boys will be influenced for evil by the jeers of associates who have no one quality that calls for respect, but who affect to laugh at the very traits which ought to be peculiarly a cause for pride.

There is no need to be a prig. There is no need for a boy to preach about his own conduct and virtue. If he does he will make himself offensive and ridiculous. But there is urgent need that he should practice decency; that he should be clean and straight, honest and truthful, gentle and tender, as well as brave. If he can once get a proper understanding of things, he will have a far more hearty contempt for the boy who has begun a course of feeble dissipation, or who is untruthful, or mean, or dishonest, or cruel, than this boy and his fellows can possibly, in return, feel for him. The very fact that the boy should be manly and able to hold his own, that he should be ashamed to submit to bullying without instant retalliation, should, in return, make him abhor any form of bullying, cruelty, or brutality..

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It is highly important that the public should not take risks in the matter of toilet preparations, because the health of the skin is vitally concerned, no less than the acquisition of increased personal beauty. It follows that the absolutely reliable and trustworthy toilet preparation, of which Wisdom's Robertine is an example, should meet with hearty recognition from the hygienist, in view of its value both as a specific and as a safeguard.-American Journal of Health.

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It is a Mistake.

To sleep exposed to a direct draught at any

season.

To work when you are not in a fit condition to do so.

To conclude that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.

To think that the more a person eats the healthier and stronger he will become.

To imagine that if a little work or exercise is good, violent or prolonged.exercise is better.

To take off heavy underclothing out of season simply because you have become overheated.

To think any nostrus or patent medicine is a specific for all the diseases that flesh is heir to.

To go to bed late at night and rise at daybreak and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained.

To believe that children can do as much - work as grown people, and that the more they study the more they learn.

To give unnecessary time to a certain established routine of housekeeping when it could be much more profitably spent in rest or recreation.

To imagine that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better-as alcoholic stimulants-is good for the system, without regard to the after effects.

To eat as if you had only a minute in which to finish the meal, or to eat without an appetite, or to continue after it has been satified merely to gratify the taste.

To expect a girl or woman to be handsome when the action of her lungs is dependent on the expansive nature of a cent's worth of tape.

"Little Cupid shot a dart

That pierced my hard and stony heart;
Sad, indeed, but what is worse,
That same dart it pierced my purse."