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.