Does this comparison not make it clear that woman has by far a more exalted mission than man?  But the mission of both man and woman is sufficiently grand and noble if each performs it, and within its limitations is content.

Have plenty of friends.  Cultivate them.  You cultivate your business.  You cultivate vegetables.  But friends are more precious than either business or vegetables.  Cultivate friends, therefore.  Call on them and let them call on you.  And do it in the good old-fashioned, hearty, American way.

But be sure you make your friends for the sake of the relation itself.  Do not misuse that sacred relation for your personal advantage.  Do not make friends for the purposes of success.  Make friends for the purposes of friendship.  Be true to them, therefore.  Don’t neglect them when they can no longer serve you.  And serve you them.  And let your service to your friends be a glad service, a service which is its own reward.

He who seeks another’s friendship because he needs it in his politics or business, will throw that friendship away like a worn-out glove when his ends have been accomplished.  Make friends and nourish friendship because friends and friendships are life itself.  Remember that you do not live in order to achieve success; you achieve success in order to live.

It is the twentieth century you are living in—­don’t forget that.  Keep up, therefore; keep abreast of things.  Keep in the current of the world’s thought and feeling.  Newspapers are literally indispensable to you; and you should take two of them—­the morning paper and the evening paper.  Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning, so that you may have time to look over the morning paper carefully.

Do not read it idly.  Read it with discrimination.  And do not read it without discussing it with your little family.  The war in Manchuria, the character of a public man, the policy of an administration, the state of the Nation’s business—­all these are mental food which you need as much as you need your breakfast.  One thoroughly up-to-date magazine also is helpful.  Build you a library also.  You do not want the new home to be a mere physical habitation.  You want it to be a home for the mind as well as the body, do you not?

I heard of a young lawyer who put aside a little of every fee as a sinking-fund for a library.  He and his wife bought books with that—­not books for the office, but books for their home.  He succeeded—­“won out”—­“won out” with his cases, which was his profession’s business, and “won out” with his happiness and hers, which was his life’s business.

The theater is the highest form of combined education, amusement, and repose which human intelligence has yet invented.  It was so in Greece, and it is so now.  The theater occasionally is good for you.  But let the play you go to see be high-grade.  Inferior performances on the stage will destroy your taste as surely as will the continued propinquity of poor pictures.  The same is true of music.