CONTENTS
Reading edition
Two Sides of Life 3
Helping Others 11
Some of the Rocks Ahead 19
On Influencing By Example 27
The Virtue of Simplicity 33
Have You Done Your Best? 43
Don't Be Discouraged 51
On Getting a Home 57
Calling Things By Their Right Names 63
European Impressions 71
The Value of System In Home Life 81
What Will Pay? 87
Education that Educates 95
The Importance of Being Reliable 103
The Highest Education 111
Unimproved Opportunities 119
Keeping Your Word 133
Some Lessons of the Hour 141
The Gospel of Service 149
Your Part in the Negro Conference 157
What Is To Be Our Future? 165
Some Great Little Things 173
To Would-Be Teachers 181
The Cultivation of Stable Habits 187
What You Ought to Do 193
Individual Responsibility 203
Getting On In the World 213
Each One His Part 217
What Would Father and Mother Say? 225
Object Lessons 233
Substance vs. Shadow 239
Character as Shown in Dress 245
Sing the Old Songs 251
Getting Down to Mother Earth 259
A Penny Saved 267
Growth 277
Last Words 283