DON’T SNUB THE BOYS.
Don’t snub a boy because he wears shabby clothes. When Edison, the great inventor, first entered Boston, he wore a pair of yellow linen breeches in the depth of winter.
Don’t snub a boy because his home is plain and unpretending. Abraham Lincoln’s early home was a log cabin.
Don’t snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of “Pilgrim’s Progress” was a tinker.
Don’t snub a boy because of physical disability. Milton was blind, and Cato was deaf.
Don’t snub a boy because he seems dull or stupid. Hogarth, the celebrated painter and engraver, was slow at learning, and did not develop as soon as some boys.
Don’t snub a boy because he stutters. Demosthenes, the greatest orator of Greece, overcame a harsh and stammering voice.
Don’t snub any one; not alone because some day he may outstrip you in the race of life, but because it is neither kind nor Christian.
KEEPING THEM DOWN.
Rich Youth—“I should not object to the work of earning my own living if I had to, but what I should hate would be the officiousness and petty tyranny of superiors. I should hate to have to bow to the whims of some wealthy man not a bit better than myself.”