success. LBERT HUBBARD AFFIRMS the dignity and usefulness of work. The Nautilus teaches how any one, by the power of rightly directed thought, may accomplish what work he will, and thus mold his conditions for health and The Nautilus does not preach. It PROVES that self-help comes from selfknowledge. It gives practical help to its readers in the common, every-day problems of life and thought. It makes the reader think, to his own betterment and to positive improvement of his work. By it thousands have been inspired to go forward to greater success. ¶ Fra Elbertus says of the editor, that "her words go straight to the mark.” ¶ Besides Mrs. Towne's words of help and encouragement The Nautilus also has regular contributions from ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, America's beloved poet, and from a number of other splendid writers. ¶Why don't you give Nautilus a four months' trial,-(only ten cents,) and let it prove the good it can do you? Or send 50 cents for a year's subscription and two back numbers-fourteen numbers in all. Address the editor, Elizabeth Towne, Dept. 33, Holyoke, Mass. E still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs. The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd. And further, by these, my son, be admonished; Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. -Ecclesiastes. OBSERVATIONS Long face never went with broad experience. Weather advice for all the year round: Your heart won't practice self-control" is to prohibit self-command. A man who attempts to "drive a sharp bargain" usually finds its sharpness lay in its hind heels. The first ingredient of common sense is the sense of humor. To judge a man's character: Ask the opinion of his next-door neighbor-then believe the opposite. The Rhyme of the Rendezvous: “Tongues wag, bodies lag, hearts sag." In the presence of a real teacher, we do not learn. We discover. If the man that loves a woman was as careful to tell her so as the man that does not, homes would be happier and wrecked lives fewer. Most people are too human to be humane. Only small fish travel in shoals. Rules were made to be broken. But only by those who do it quietly enough not to wake the neighbors. Every birthday-fete is a death-day forecast. A good deed becomes bad and a bad deed worse in the telling. The only trouble with optimists is they're weak in ornithology. Most of them imagine Hope can be all wings and no body. From the Confessions of a Proselyter (meaning me): “When a man's faith is strong enough to work and support itself, he never sees it moping among the neighbors-advising them to use its peculiar brand of predigested creed. Pshaw! A "post of honor" is only a hitching-post after all. Only a nobody can be a public personage. "Patriotism" is excusable in hornets and hedge-hogs, but not in men. When we praise people for being polite, we forget they do not dare be sincere 66 To have no time to lose" is sometimes to have no eternity to gain. No man may safely play on a woman's feelings till he learns the use of the tremolo stop. The surest proof I am growing sincere: little children smile as I pass. ED WARD EARLE PURINTON A POINT OF VIEW HE thinking men and women of the world have awarded to Elbert Hubbard the degree of Doctor of Common Sense," says Mr. Bailey Millard in the Cosmopolitan for September. And we think the award is just. Elbert Hubbard is the sanest, most vivid, direct and original writer in America, and many look upon him as a philosopher of so big and generous a type that he is worthy to be called the true successor of Herbert Spencer, the greatest philosopher of his age. Whether Hubbard is as deep a thinker as Spencer let time and the prophecies of both reveal. Spencer has given us many daring flights of imagination, but in way of practical achievement, dealing with humanity and the world as it exists, Elbert Hubbard has done things which to Herbert Spencer were impossible. Hubbard deals less with theories and more with facts. Hubbard has a firm and sure grasp on practical economics. He is a successful business man, a remarkable writer and an orator of power. His experience in the world of workers, in business, as a teacher and before the people as a public lecturer, has given him a broad outlook into methods, motives and possibilities. He views things from the vantage ground of actual contact, while Spencer, to a great degree, was a laboratory recluse. That philosophic nugget, A MESSAGE TO GARCIA could only have been written by a man who had been both employee and employer-a man who had received orders and given them. If there is any other living writer who deals with life with the same courage, faith and hope that Elbert Hubbard reveals, we do not know him. Hubbard is a teacher of the people who teach. ¶ He supplies texts for many sermons-where his name is never mentioned; suggests thoughts for editorial writers, and gives to many an essayist his needed initial impulse. Hubbard's influence is strongest among the people who play big parts upon life's stage. The test of greatness lies not in the ability to produce like-mindedness, but to stir men up to think for themselves. Hubbard divides men. And society to-day is fast reaching a point where there are but two classes, those who read Elbert Hubbard, and those who don't. And those who don't, can't. To disparage this man is proof of incapacity. Hubbard's test of every phase of life is, Will it serve? And no matter what the nimble critics may say, Elbert Hubbard's life is dedicated to the service of mankind, and he who declares otherwise has never seen the man, heard him speak, nor visited the place which he has made famous. And the fact that in working for mankind Hubbard regards himself as an important part of mankind need not weigh in the balance 'gainst the man himself, for Elbert Hubbard, of all men, is wise enough to know that the only way to benefit yourself is to benefit others. -Denver Post. |