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Society and Drama Sports and Pictures .
In This Section In This Section
THREE
ESTERDAY is gone forever. TO
. DAY is here, TO-MORROW will
never come. You will never do
-.more with to-morrow than you do
with to-day. Worrying about yes
terday is like worrying about a
train that you missed yesterday.
The gate is closed, the, darkness has settled down.
Remember yesterday and its failure only to use the
remembrance as a whip driving you on TO-DAY.
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In three words, and in three groups of human
beings, McCay, whose admirable cartoons are among
the best sermons preached in America, tells the story
of life, its success and failure.
See the group on the left, turning toward yes
terday. They may be described as people "running
to catch the train that has gone."
You have often seen people run in that way after
the gate was closed.
On the right, as the attitude and expression show,
you see the WAITING ones. Those in that group
wait for something to come, for something to turn
up, for something to happen. They are the "TO
MORROW" people. They are the "some day I shall
do it" people.
They are those that in a few months or years
will be transferred to the left-hand side of McCay's
cartoon and found running vainly to catch the yes
terdays that have gone and are dead.
A poeteus asks:
What shall I bring to lay upori thy bier,
O Yesterday, thou day forever dead?
With What strange garlands shall I crown thy head,
Thou silent One?
-Julia C. R. Dorr.
Every young man with ambition can answer that
question. At the grave of a friend you vow to be
more WORTHY of a friend. Beside a father's grave
you resolve to do honor to the memory that you
revere.
On the tomb of YESTERDAY "forever dead"
you write these words:
Yesterday, you are dead and gone and I
can do nothing with you, or for you. Buf' I have
learned from you to make better use of your brother
TO-DAY, so thank you and good-by to you.
Put your mind on the middle picture, TO-DAY,
with the door wide open, the light shining, the rain
bow ahead, and everybody going forward.
The young man etijy up in the rmorning should
ar to himsaed, h: Y1 K-DA d. and when it
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\ This Cartoon, One of the Best Mr. Mc
Cay Has Ever Drawn, Should Be Seen and
Studied by Every Young Man and Woman
in the Country and by All the Old That Still
Have Energy to Use TO-DAY.
It Is a Cartoon That Leaves Little to Be
has gone and lies buried, labelled YESTERDAY, it
shall not owe ME anything, and I shall not owe IT
anything."
The crowd on the right waiting for TO-MOR
ROW are the crowd that ask, "What is ONE day,
more or less, what do a FEW hours amount to in a
lifetime?"
The answer is, that every good idea comes IN
ONE SECOND.
The answer is, that only to the mind attentive.
eager, interested, THIS MOMENT, does any good
idea EVER come.
Mourning for yesterday stops the working of the
mind. Mooning about to-morrow ends all action now.
Join the TO-DAY crowd. As a reminder, cut out
these seven TO-DAY quotations, one for each day
in the week.
Start the week with this by Benjamin Franklin:
"One to-day is worth two to-morrows."
For Tuesday take the words written by Martial
two thousand years ago, as valuaole as all the rest
of his fourteen books of epigrams.
"To-morrow life is too late; live to-day."
For Wednesday try this by Carlyle, who had
many "blue days" with indigestion, disappointment,
but who through it all worked and used every TO
DAY. He wrote a complete and magnificent history.
Through the carelessness of a servant It was thrown
into the fire and destroyed. He sat down and wrote it
again. He did not say, "To-morrow, PERtHAPS, I
shall find courage to begin It over again."'
"So here hath been dawning
Another blue 'lay.
Think wilt thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of eternity
This new day Is born;
Into eternity
At night will return.'
Behold it aforetime
- No eye ever did;
So soon It forever
From all eyes Is hid."
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Said, for Mr. McCay in His Picture H as Said
It All.
Y EST ERDAY, the DE AD Word.
TO-DAY, the LIVING Word.
TO-MORROW, Not Yet and NEVER
to Be Here. All of Life Is TO-DAY.
"Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day.
And in one little word, our life, what is it but
To-day?"
For Friday, when the week begins to get old,
take a truth from Dryden:
"Happy the man, and happy he alone
He who can call to-day his own."
And may you be able to say n !our last day,
with that same Dryden:
"Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
What has been has been, and I have had my hour."
Saturday, last working day of the week, is
the most dangerous day. Too many have grown ac
customed to doing nothing on Saturday. Pleasure is
something in youth, independence in old age is hore.
Do not let Saturday morning find you saying, "It
hasn't been a very good week, I will just start in
again on Monday." Take these lines by Young:
"To-day is yesterday returned; returned
Full-powered to cancel, expiate, raise, adorn,
And reinstate us on the rock of peace;
Let it not share its predecessor's fate,
Nor like its elder sisters die a fool."
For Sunday, resting, but l'RINKING, this
thought, "ather so'emn, will do:
"To-day alone I count my own
For God alone doth know
Where I shall be when o'er the lea
The morrow's sun doth glow." '
To young people willing to accept advice we
most earnestly advise: KEEP this cartoon for at
least A WEEK.
Look at it once in a while, cut out whichever
one of the seven quotations suits you best, or all of
them.
QONOENTRATE YOUR MIND UPON YOUR
OWN PROGRESS AND BU00ES8. Worry about
yourself NOW, TO-DAY. Don't wait, then run to
catch the train that has gone, the dead YESTERDAY.
What pushes a man forward is the efect of HIS
OWN MIND AND WILL UiPON HIMBEL?.
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There is just ONE bprain in the'world interested
in you-YOUR BRAIN.
There is just ONE person, barring those de
pendent upon you, if there are any,: that will suffer
bitterly if you neglect TO-DAY, and that person is
YOU.
Sa s
It is easy enough to get a day off, it is still easier
to pretend that you are working instead of really
working.
It is the easiest thing, in this day of busy em
ployers, of many workers not adequately supervised,
to "GET BY."
You can easily "get by" the little problem of
to-day. You can easily avoid being discharged just
now. You can easily, if you choose, be able .oast
fully to say to your friends, "I don't work myself
Sdeath."
"'he man whose mind is bent on "getting by" is
one that a little later will see others "getting by" him,
and beyond him, while he sinks back.
There are in the word enough so called "acci
dents" to tempt fools and make them wait for to
morrow. But YOU keep away from that crowd on
the right.
There isn't any TO-MORROW, there isn't any
YESTERDAY, there is only TO-DAY. Anything
that you have within ycu nan be made real and pro
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