DOING HARD THINGS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 9001, 25 January 1906, Page 6

DOING HARD THINGS

Other things, being equal, it Is usually better to do a hard thing than an easy one. There are plenty of tasks waiting for attention every day; few of us are troubled by lack of something to do. But most of us are content to keep busy over the less difficult tasks, persuading ourselves that because we are not idle we are doing all that can be expectecl of us. The more difficult duties are pushed aside and deferred, and day after day opportunities for character-training are lost. Those who grow stronger and abler in life's race, forging ahead of the rest, are those who are steeling themselves to talje the harder task every time there is a chance. That is sound advice, credited to Professor James: "Every day of your life do something that you know you ought to do and that you don't want to do."- It is Spartan training, but it makes for character, her© and hereafter.

The Municipal Council of Paris (according to the Central News) will shortly consider a proposal to name a Paris street "Rue de L'Entente Cordiale" or "Rue dv Eoi Edouard."