Mind You, I Have Had In My

Possibly The Best Suggestion In Condensed Form, As To How To Live, Was Given By My Old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, In 1904, When He Wrote His Recipe For Old Age. A Diet Moderate And Spare, Freedom From Base Financial Care, Abundant Work And Little Leisure, A Love Of Duty More Than Pleasure, An Even And Contented Mind In Charity With All Mankind, Some Thoughts Too Sacred For Display In The Broad Light Of Common Day, A Peaceful Home, A Loving Wife, Children, Who Are A Crown Of Life; These Lengthen Out The Years Of Man Beyond The Psalmist's Narrow Span.

It Is Risky To Order A Boy Not To Do Something; It Immediately Opens To Him The Adventure Of Doing It.

Make Good Scouts Of Yourselves, Become Good Rifle Shots So That If It Becomes Necessary That You Defend Your Families And Your Country That You Can Do It.

A Thing That Many Young Fellows Don't Seem To Realism At First Is That Success Depends On Oneself And Not On A Kindly Fate, Nor On The Interest Of Powerful Friends.

Mind You, I Have Had In My Sojourn On Earth As Good A Time Of It As Any Man, So I Can Speak With Some Knowledge. A Writer In The Manchester Guardian Who Is Unknown To Me Lately Described Me As "the Richest Man In The World." That Sounds A Pretty Big Order, But When I Come To Think It Out I Believe He Is Not Far Wrong. A Rich Man Is Not Necessarily A Man With A Whole Pot Of Money But A Man Who Is Really Happy. And I Am That.