Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1918 — Value of “Holding On." [ARTICLE]

Value of “Holding On."

The bulldog grip—the grace of holding on —is a powerful asset in any boy’s life, declares a writer. A good many who start out- with “Great Expectations,” as Dickens puts it, peter out. A man past middle life brought some of his paintings to the great English painter, Rossetti, for examination and judgment. Rossetti was obliged to tell the man that the works were lacking in strength and power. Then the man drew out other paintings ’ and drawings, saying that they were the work of a young student. Rossetti declared them full of talent and promise, and asked who the student was. The middle-aged man, with pathos in his voice, admitted that they were the products of his younger days. He had failed to live up to the promise and possibilities of his young manhood; he had failed to hold on to his ideals. It’s a good plan to learn to “hold on.”