but
would not talk much about the fighting; advised
him not to hurry about getting a job, as he
deserved a good long spell of rest after the hard
campaign.

_Wednesday_--Left office early; first big league
game this year; went around to the club and talked
it all over with the boys after supper.

_Thursday_--Office closed all day on account of
parade of returning troops; took Mollie and
children to see it; awfully tired and went to bed
early.

_Friday_--Sold my two Liberty Bonds which I had
bought on installments; Mollie needed summer
dresses and there were several small debts I had
to pay; took Mollie to the movies after supper.

_Saturday_ (afternoon)--Whole family went to
Seaside Park by steamer--children enjoyed it for a
while but soon got tired and fretful; what with
the heat and the crowds and the late hour of
getting home it really didn't pay.

_Sunday_--In bed till nearly noon; read the
papers; changed the soil in Mollie's potted
plants; afternoon, Tom and his wife and Charlie
Nichols and his best girl came over and all stayed
to supper; strolled over to Mother's and found
everyone there.

"Over against that let me put a few lines from the diary of Elihu
Burritt:

_Monday_--Headache; 40 lines Cuvier's 'Theory of
the Earth'; 64 pages French; 11 hours forging.

_Tuesday_--60 lines Hebrew; 30 pages French; 10
pages Cuvier; 8 lines Syriac; 10 lines Danish; 10
lines Bohemian; 9 lines Polish; 15 names of
stars; 10 hours forging.

_Wednesday_--25 lines Hebrew; 8 lines Syriac; 11
hours forging.

"Who was Elihu Burritt? He was a New England blacksmith who worked on an
average 10 hours a day at his forge; but who studied in his spare
moments until he became known and honored all over the world as 'the
learned blacksmith.' He became great--not by forging--but by the way he
used his afterwork hours."

IV

WORKING HARDER

"It was the rule of his life to study not how little he could do, but
how much."

These words were spoken of a great publisher and might have been made
the text of the volume issued to commemorate the centenary of the
business house founded by the