"And what do you think, children--did the kite reach the man in the moon? Not much it didn't!' It began to act crazy and silly and drunk all at the same time! And it wobbled, and wobbled and stumbled and tumbled and finally it fell in the dirt, battered and broken like that! [Detach your drawing, reverse it and reattach it to the drawing board; add the lines to complete Fig. 127.] [Illustration: Fig. 127] "Now boys, why did the kite fall, when the string broke? Because the very same _string_ which had _held it down_ was the very same _thing_ which _held it up_! And now listen--don't you boys and girls get as silly as the kite was. Don't you jerk, and pull and tug at your mother's apron string and try to break it, so you can be 'your own man' while you are nothing but a boy or a girl? If you break that string too soon, you are liable to tumble in the dirt as the kite did, and go all to pieces as it did; for--don't forget this--the things which _hold you down_ to Sunday School, to Church, to Young People's Meeting, to _School_ and to _work_, are the things which hold you up and lift you up, and keep you up and build you up into _strong_, hopeful, helpful, useful, happy men and women. Don't forget what a fool the kite was, and what happened to it! Go as high as you can in the world but _don't break the string_!" A STRANGE OLD EPITAPH --Narrowness --Broadness A Talk to Boys Concerning the Narrow Life and the Broad Life--A Contrast. THE LESSON--That it is all wrong to be satisfied to be a Mr. Nobody. Do your best and be a Mr. Somebody. The boy whose days in school and whose hours of serious thought in the home have opened his eyes to future years of responsibility, will drink in the sentiment of this talk and remember the lesson when he reaches the twists and corners of life's pathway which lies before him. ~~The Talk.~~ ~~(By Chas. D. Meigs.)~~ "I am going to tell you today of a very _narrow man_. Suppose we call him Mr. Slim Jim. Later on, I will tell you about Mr. Broadman, and ask you which one you would rather be when you grow up. [Illustration: Fig. 128] "But first, we will turn our minds to a strange old graveyard over in England, a burying ground where there are a good many old tomb-stones like this: [Draw Fig. 128, complete]. If you were to walk among these old gravestones, you would find one there which would make you laugh, even though you were in a cemetery, because the epitaph, on it is the funniest you ever saw or heard of. It says: "'Here Lies the Body of John Blank. He Was Born a Man But _Died a Grocer_!' [As you speak the words slowly, draw them on the tombstone, completing Fig. 129.] [Illustration: Fig. 129]