The Independent . s the same sort of thing thatyou can read in the Bryce report on Bel-gium. At any rate, it sufficed to make mea model child—so long as I was under mygrandmothers influence: when I was inKansas the guerrillas from Missouri tend-I to my moral tuition. Doubtless my grandmothers story of theirissian atrocities had lost nothing in thecentury of retelling, but, as Bancroft says,many of the Hessians were induced to en-list by being assured that in Americathey would have free license to plunderand indulge their passions. That some ofthem improved their opportunities in fliisrespect i
The Independent . s the same sort of thing thatyou can read in the Bryce report on Bel-gium. At any rate, it sufficed to make mea model child—so long as I was under mygrandmothers influence: when I was inKansas the guerrillas from Missouri tend-I to my moral tuition. Doubtless my grandmothers story of theirissian atrocities had lost nothing in thecentury of retelling, but, as Bancroft says,many of the Hessians were induced to en-list by being assured that in Americathey would have free license to plunderand indulge their passions. That some ofthem improved their opportunities in fliisrespect is shown by the war diaries, whichtbey. like their successors in Belgium, wereso indiscreet as to keep. Hut on the other hand, some of themwere better behaved than our other enem-ies. When Major Audit, in whose honormemorials have been erected in Westmin-ster and on the Hudson, was looting thelibrary of Benjamin Franklin his attentionwas called to the more honorable conductof the Hessian General Knypbausen, who /. This isTheodore RooseveltWhile He WasLearning to Live! When Theodore Roosevelt went to Harvardin 1876 he was thin-chested, bespectacled,nervous, weighing only 90 pounds. By scientific exercise and right living helearned to run his body machine and becomethe wonder of the world for efficiency, andcontinuous joyousness in life, with muscleslike a prize-fighters. He has corkingtimes all the time because he knows how tolive. YOU can have corking times, too, if youwill learn how to live. You can learn toenjoy every instant so that all things willseem to be in a vivid, new light—so that theworld will be joyous—so that you will getup gladly, go to your office with a song inyour heart, go through your work for theday lightly, and come home in the eveninguntired, untaxed, ready for a pleasant even-ings fun—and you will sleep like a child. These things are in the power of almostevery man who has not got some incurableillness—and very few men have that. It isnothing mys
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