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o more for your looks than a barrel of beauty preparations. The only way to get health out of a bottle is to keep out of the bottle. You can't buy beauty at the druggists. We love our friends for their character, not their skin beauty. Have good wholesome health and wholesome character and you will look mighty good to the world. DREAMS Hitch Your Wagon to a Star, and Stay Hitched The great colleges are just now turning out their thousands of graduates and the great newspapers have much sport ridiculing them with funny pictures. Every great man was once a boy with a dream, and that dream came true because the boy had pep that made him stick to his ambition and kept him from being discouraged because of ridicule or obstacles. Thomas Carlyle, the poor Scotch tutor, dreamed he wanted to be a great author. His clothes were threadbare, his poverty apparent; friends taunted and ridiculed him until, goaded to indignation, he cried, "I have better books in me than you have ever read." The crowd laughed and said, "poor fellow, he's daffy in the head." Carlyle stuck to his dream and the world has the "History of Frederick the Great" and the "French Revolution" and "Sartor Resartus." When he had finished the manuscript of the "French Revolution" a careless maid built a fire with it. He wasn't discouraged, but went to work and wrote it over again and very likely better than he wrote it the first time. Bonaparte in the garden of his military school dreamed of being a great general. He stuck to his dream and he realized his hopes. Joseph Pulitzer, a poor emigrant, crawled in a cellar way to sleep in New York, and he dreamed of owning a great newspaper. His dream came true and the newspaper is printed in a building erected on the spot where he dreamed in the cellar way. Livingston dreamed of exploring darkest Africa; his dream came true. Edison dreamed of great electrical discoveries. His monument is Menlo Park with its great laboratories. Ford dreamed of making an automobile for the purse-limited masses--he was jeered; today the world cheers him. My friend Bert Perrine was chucked off a stage in the middle of Idaho's great sage brush desert. He said to the driver, "Some day I'll own that stage and I'll use it for a chicken house." He dreamed and schemed and today the desert is the famous Twin Falls country, blossoming like a rose, and on his beautiful ranch at Blue Lakes that old stage is us
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