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Colonel Ingersoll speaks like a wise man when he says, in bis bluff American way, " Gire the children a chance. Don't insist upon their pursuing some calling they hare no sort of faculty for. Don't make that poor girl play ten years on a piano when she has no car for music, and when she has practised until she can play 'Bonaparte crossing the Alps." and you can't tell after she has played it whether Napoleon ever got across or not." Decision of Character. Ton must cult irate decision of character, and learn to say " No," said a father to Iris «>n. Soon afterwards, when the father said to his son, "Chop wood," the boy said •• No " with an emphasis that showed a rememberance of the lesson. " Hare your hair cut, sir ?" said a barber to a man he had just shaved. , " No," growled the man. " Very long," laid the barber, " rery straggling, too— comes clean down to your coat collar.'' "Does it P " snarled the customer;'" then I'll hare tbe coat collar mired dowii."