Up-to-the-times Magazine, Volume 13

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Walla Walla Publishing Company, 1918

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Page 9258 - The prudent, penniless beginner in the world labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land for himself, then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way to all, gives hope to all, and consequent energy and progress and improvement of condition to all.
Page 8758 - Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
Page 8945 - They put me in barracks ; they took away my clothes and put me in khaki ; they took away my name and made me No. 575...
Page 9350 - Do not worry, eat three square meals a day, say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good, steer clear of biliousness, exercise, go slow and go easy. Maybe there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but, my friend, these, I reckon, will give you a good lift.
Page 8857 - ... despotism? What is it to me that a great reformer arises and sets some old wrong right, unless I see that his coming and the work he does are not mere happy accidents, but the expression of great necessities of human life, and of a condition which mankind has reached by slow development and education? What is your brave act without a brave nature behind it? What is your smile, unless I know that you are kind? What is your indignant blow, unless your heart is on fire? What is all your activity...
Page 9208 - Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two where there was but one is both a profit and a pleasure.
Page 8881 - There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
Page 9368 - ... 1. Keep the nests clean; provide one nest for every four hens. 2. Gather the eggs twice daily. 3. Keep the eggs in a cool, dry room or cellar. 4. Market the eggs at least twice a week. 5. Sell. kill, or confine all male birds as soon as the hatching season is over. o 628 Issued May 17, 1913. US DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FARMERS
Page 8911 - Above all, give pleasure — lose no chance of giving pleasure. You will pass through this world but once; any good thing, therefore, that you can do or any kindness that you can show to any human being, you had better do it now; do not defer or neglect it, for you will not pass this way again.
Page 8879 - ... resistance. The man who begins the day with a proscription that sets him apart from his neighbors may venture into the open jauntily, persuading himself that his abstinence proves his superior qualities; but in his heart, to say nothing of his stomach, he knows that he has been guilty of a sneaking evasion. If he were a normal, healthy being, he would not be skulking out of the house breakfastless. Early rising, a prompt response to the breakfast bell, a joyous breaking of the night's fast is...

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