set a good example wherever she may be.

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age. Girls should remember that they have an important work to do today in influencing the minds of lads with whom they come in contact, and inspiring in such boys admiration of good character.

The young boy should be ambitious also.

And while he dreams occasionally of being President of the United States, knocking Dempsey senseless, or making the best flying machine, he must have for his present ambition something simpler and more feasible. If his people are good, the highest ambition he can have is to support himself and help them.

If they are making a sacrifice to give him an education that will help them later, the boy's ambition should be to do everything in his work to be worthy of the kindness and the opportunity they are giving him.

Every boy, young man and young woman should have ambition to understand public affairs, and, if possible, to influence them. Power lies in all of the people.

Every boy, girl, young man and woman should study political affairs, understand public questions and be ambitious, in a little or a big way, to help make this land a genuine republic, governed in the interests of the people.

It is proper that young men and women should have a reasonable desire to accumulate money. Poverty is slavery.

face of poverty, and to do it he must be content to endure suffering and humiliation.

Every young man should have a good, honest ambition to make a reasonable fortune, to put himself and those dependent on him beyond the reach of want, beyond the whims of some other human being.

But the making of money should be a secondary ambition. It is, properly speaking, not ambition at all -only a development of the instinct of self-preservation.

Real thought should dwell on the possibility of doing something entirely new which will be of benefit to all of the world-or of doing extremely well something that is necessary.

Encourage your own ambition, nurse it, and mark out a definite course for it.

A man can no more sail through life without a guiding, directing will-than a ship can sail across the ocean without a needle pointing in one direction all the time.

You may change your course; you may find as your abilities develop that you must change your plans. Don't be afraid or ashamed to change the course of your ambition.

But have a plan, and stick to it until you make up your mind that it was wrongly selected.

And remember this: No man is worth his salt who does not try to do something that will help others. Everything that we enjoy on this earth-comforts, luxury-we owe to the ambition of unselfish, brave men that lived here before us. Try to be like them, in a big or a little way, and good luck to you.

Truth is found in good books, freedom also.

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

MAN progresses. He was a poor, shivering creature on this earth a hundred thousand years ago, afraid of wind that roared through his cave, calling it a devil; afraid of lightning that flashed in the sky, imagining that a supreme God was trying to hit his poor little carcass. That same lightning, the electric spark man uses inside the engine of the flying machine that carries him through clouds where lightning flashes. He knows scientific truth and that makes him free of superstition and free to ride through the air.

Many readers say "Tell us what to read, since you so often speak of good books."

First you want to know what and where this earth is on which you live. Read a good, simple book on astronomy. Flammarion's Astronomy is good. So is Ball's "Story of the Heavens."

It is a good idea to have on hand and read several books at once, each book opens up a new part of the mind.

While you are reading your astronomy read a good, simple up-to-date book on geology; get one recently written. Your librarian or book dealer will recommend one. This geology will tell you what has happened to the earth during the hundreds of millions of years that it has been spinning around the sun.

of animal life on the earth, how you have gradually risen to an erect position, and learned to study the stars instead of studying ways to kill and eat your neighbor. Wallace's book on Darwinism is good.

After you understand something about the universe in which your earth is a little traveler, something about geology and evolution, read a good book on psychology and learn something about yourself, how it becomes possible for your brain to see and understand the world around you and the distant suns. Professor James has written an admirable text book on psychology. Get it.

Then get a history of philosophy, which means the history of human thought and abstract speculation.

Philosophy represents the effort of man to explain things to himself, as religion represents man's effort to believe, and thus get along without any scientific explanation.

The history of philosophy written by George Lewes, husband of George Eliot, is easy and pleasant to read, and sufficiently, although not perfectly, accurate.

While reading all other books, make it a point to read Shakespeare for at least fifteen minutes every day. Other books feed different parts of the mind. Shakespeare feeds the entire brain.

Read, a little at a time and changing from one book to another, the following books:

Bacon's Essays. He was one of the world's three

that intellect is sometimes apart from character.

Read the essays of Montaigne and the maxims of La Rochefoucauld. At the same time, although some readers find it rather hard, read slowly Montesquieu's "Spirit of Laws." Keep the last three books by you and read them intermittently in the course of a year. You will find in Montesquieu the history of man's struggle to attain justice. In Montaigne you will admire solid wisdom and keen satire. The brilliant Duke of La Rochefoucauld will show you how to use language and wit most brilliantly.

If you want to know something about education for your children's sake, read Herbert Spencer's book on "Education," and Rousseau's "Emile." Add to these, if you are industrious, works on education by Froebel and Pestalozzi. But Spencer and Rousseau are enough for the average parent.

To make you think, enable you to judge events of today and think intelligently about the future in the light of the past, read these admirable books:

Buckle's "History of Civilization in England," Lecky's "History of European Morals" and Guizot's "History of Civilization." You will find it difficult to buy the last named, but can get it at a public library.

Such books as these should be read with an encyclopedia at hand and frequently consulted. Never read and pass on without understanding what you have read or knowing about the important characters mentioned. To read books without knowing what you read is like