“WEE DRAPPIES”

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11539, 16 January 1932, Page 12

“WEE DRAPPIES”

■n . .. i. " * ~* HARRY LAUDER ON SUCCESS. “Success is never impossible, never entirely out of reach, so dou.t vou get downhearted and think it is. Just grin and sit up and reach out a bit farther till ye do get hold of it,’’ writes Sir Harry Lauder ni “Wee Drappies.” “I’ve hud enough hard knocks in my time lo know that sitting down under them is the worst thing possible. That gets success, no nearer, but it makes one real, disheartened. Get on with-.the next job to hand—you’ll feel less sorry for yourse.t then. —and watch Idle a cat for another chance to succeed. It always cornels if you work and watch for it. ‘And don't count on good luck anv more than oil-bad. Nothing worth \\liile comes to us except by. the result of our own sweated labor; it we try hard enough, we can ensure success. If we don’t, ‘the fault . . . is . not in our stars but in ourselves.

“One of the best recipes tor-success that I’ve conic a cross is to keep other folk good-tempered and happy. Of course, ye might say -that's my job. me being a comedian : but I can tell vou it pays- a tragedian just as well.'

“And -I daresay a bank-clerk- or a typist would stand nitre chance of uroniotion if they were noted for being cbeerv and good-tempered anti willing, than if tliev were Dismal Jimmies who gave- their chief a pain where he lived, every time he went ucar them. . ..

“Thou there's that lino but unpleasant recipe for -success- —hard work! It’s- an unpopular .thing to name these days, but it's all -the surer key to realising ambition now because less people seem to try it. which leaves moi'c room for those wlio do!’’ “I remember a Scottish mmerlad,” he writes, ‘‘whom I knew nearly fift-v' years ego. lie fell iij love with a blue-eyed Hamilton lassie. Did he take 'hide a wee’ for his watchword ? Not very hkoiv! lie Just risked the whole spinning world on nutting., lrs fate to the touch. Tie gained the inspiration and helpmeet of' a lifetime, and irfs name is on the cover of this book.”