Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1913 — Only Make Believe. [ARTICLE]

Only Make Believe.

A visitor at the home of a famous author was greeted by a little daughter of the latter. Engaging the little girl In conversation, the visitor observed: *| "Aren't you proud to think your papa is famous?” The little girl nodded. “He writes stories, doesn’t he?" Lowering her voice, the child replied: , “They’re not real stories; he Just makes them up himself.” How to Acquire More Self Control. To acquire more self control and confluence perhaps the best step is to make yourself face disagreeable tasks with courage. Do not be easily roused when you have determined on a course of action. Perhaps the most disagreeable thing one meets in the course of a business day is the occasion for tactful yielding what one desires to say, to be agreeable to people who do not appeal to us, to give a pleasant answer when we are more inclined to give a curt one—-in brief, to act according to the dictates of conscience on Any and every occasion. °