DRESS YOUR PART.
Do you dress your part in life, or ar you one of that very numerous and rapidly growing class of young men and women who feel happy in the belief that people take them to be something socially higher than they are? Modern Jekyll and Hydes they are galore^ — people who play double pits in life. The servant apes the mistress, the clerk the master, when the week-end finery is donned. After all, it is ao artificial kind of existence, a make-believe life, which does not redound to the credit of those who practice it, a^d has a baneful effect. Dress your part in life. Be proud of your work, don your true colours. If your pursuit is clerical, don't be afraid of ink-stained fingers, which are the outward and visible signs of an honourable and legitimate occupation. To hide your hands when they show signs of toil is cowardly. And so it is to carefully brush away the dust of labour. Why, man, it honours you. Never is the soldier finer than when he is black with smoke. What is the full dress parade to the wild disorder of battle?
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 1
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194DRESS YOUR PART. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 April 1907, Page 1
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