SELF ADMIRATION.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 356, 5 March 1903, Page 8

SELF ADMIRATION.

A Veaettta* Sl* Tfcat Shonfa Be 6e*«* tally Oairiled 4j—l— *■. ■ad How. A temptation to "which ronng von«n in college are subjected is the temptation to undue self-consciousness. It is a temptation to make the point of view of life too personal. Of course, each of us greets the day through the ■window pane of our own chamber. Our point of Tiew must be perscnaL But. in the personality of our vision, we are not to forget that every other person also has a pair of eyes, and the light ■which comes to ererj pair of eyes is just a* clear a light as that which comes to ours, and the revelation which every other pair of eyes beholds is just as dear as that which we ourselves reTtire. We therefore, to endeavor to see with "others' eyes, to hear with others' ears, to put ourselves in others' places. Individuality and breadth are 1o coexist. A love of admiration is a very easily brsetting sin. Like somanysins.it has a good source. It arises from the righteous wish to have ourselves and our work appreciated. But it also has a source in a too great degree of aelfronsciousnen. The proper cure, I think, for it. is to stop thinking about oneself, to stop thinking about work a« related to self, and to think simply of \vork as duly. Work is duty, to be done for its own sake. Forget yourself, if vim wish others to remember yon. say* Charles F. Thwinjr. president ¥ of the Western Reserve university, in Success.

Be ambitions: but be not too ambitious. Lei your life be prefigured by the star, a single point, high; not by the cloud, widely spread, high. Coal Tmr Indri.try. "Thirty years ago," writes a contributor If the Outlook, "coal-tar was alWO?t unknown to Herman industry: bt:t ret ween IS7T and 1800 no fewer than :■ i patents were taken out on coal-tar derivatives, and in 1595 the industries connect rd with the utilization of cual-tar—a former waste materia! - T.t'i'v-d over s<?.nrN>.ooo in products." Equally impor it : developments hare tak- .: ••!"»•" in thi* country in the pack i t! t»ns : n-?«and other industries It i> 3 ta;r :it. rrroe that silbstanri-i we ra!l "uselos" are ?o only l:r*au.-< we have not yet learned how to Use them.