aded and yet there
is work which must be done.

In your work, no matter what it is, do your best every day as far as you
are able, and by and by this skill in work will stand beside you like a
friend and will help your hands and mind.

Have you ever noticed how a mother who has brought up five or six children
of her own, takes a baby up in her hands? Such skill in handling an infant
is one of the most beautiful things in the world. The mother can do it
well, because she has done it often, with all her heart.

We often hear of success and failure in work. Good work is made up of both
failure and success. One failure may spur us on to do better work than we
have ever done before. A failure may teach us a great deal if we will learn
from it. Do not be cast down because of failure. Find out what its lesson
is. Do not be too much uplifted over a success. It may turn out a hindrance
if we grow conceited over it. Both success and failure are temporary phases
of good work.

We should learn not to try too hard, or be over anxious about work.
Once an old gentleman who had taken up golf late in life said that his
caddy had taught him a great lesson. "You are too anxious." the little
boy said. "Just do as well as you can and don't be so anxious. You would
play a better game that way."

We do not always believe when we are learning that work will be enjoyable.
We have to learn _how to work_ before we can get the full enjoyment from
our occupation. You had to learn how to skate and how to dance before you
enjoyed skating and dancing. Trying to skate and trying to dance and being
awkward, and not knowing how, does not give one the full enjoyment of
skating and dancing. But when we do know how and have become skilful, how
delightful these recreations are! When we know how to work, work also is
full of enjoyment.

It is well to remember that work is a permanent part of our lives. Do not
think of it, therefore, as a harsh or unfriendly part of life, but realize
the meaning of employment as one of our greatest possessions. It is a means
by which we can enter into the full enjoyment of our own faculties and
which helps us to understand the importance of life. The comradeship of
work is very real and lasting. The girl who goes forward, therefore, into
her life's work with a determination to do her best, while she will often
meet hard problems, is certain to find usefulness and happiness in her
employment.

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