Advice To A Graduate

Remember, son, that the world is older than you are, by several years ; that for thousands of years it has been so full of smarter and better young men than yourself that their f eet stuck out of the dormer Windows; that when they died the old globe went whirling on, and not one man in ten million went to the funeral, or even heard of the death. Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as mucb. as you can, without blowing the packing out of your cylinder-heads ; shed the light of your wisdom abroad in the world, but don't dazzle people with it. And don't imagine a thing is so simple because you say it is. Don't be too sorry for your father because he knows so much less than you do ; remember the reply of Dr. Wayland to the student of Brown University who said it was an easy enough thing to make proverbs such as Solomon wrote. "Make a few," tersely replied the old man. And we never heard that the young man made any. Not more than two or three anyhow. The world has great need of young men, but no greater need than the young men have of it. Your clothes fit you better than your father's fit him ; they cost more money, they are more stylish, your moustache is neater, the cut of your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh, f ar prettier than "pa." But, young man, the old gentleman gets the biggest salary, and his homelv scrambling signature on the business end of a check will drain more money out of the bank in live minutes than you could get out with a ream of paper and a copper-plate signature in six months. Young men are useful, and they are ornamental, and we all love them, and we couldn't engineer a picnic without them. But they are no novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind. They have been here before. Don't be so modest as to shut yourself clear out ; but don't be so fresh you will have to be put away in the cool to keep from spoiling. Don't be afraid that your merit will not be discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you. and if you are worth finding, they will find you. A diamond isn't so easily found as a quartz pebble, but people search for it all the more