Failures

"Do not one instant forget, " said a prominent artist, addressiug bis pui pils, "thut so oalled íailures are only milestones on the road tosuecess. Witli each one passed there is just so uiuch of the weary, inevitable journey behind ! you, and you are just so rnuch nearer the goal." A comíortable theory which it would be wel) if we were philosophioal enough to apply to all uur undertakings. If young people, too, could only be taught to count their honest failures as so inany premiums ptúd to experiI ence, how inuch discouragement would be saved and how many ultímate triumphs won ! Parents and teachers do not half appreciate the valué of a failure, which with tact and kindness is turned to good account, and which in the end may be far more beneficial tlian a success. Children should early be trained to consider them not in the light of discouragemeuts. but as the best centives