_Wednesday_--Left office early; first big league game this year; went around to the club and talked it all over with the boys after supper. _Thursday_--Office closed all day on account of parade of returning troops; took Mollie and children to see it; awfully tired and went to bed early. _Friday_--Sold my two Liberty Bonds which I had bought on installments; Mollie needed summer dresses and there were several small debts I had to pay; took Mollie to the movies after supper. _Saturday_ (afternoon)--Whole family went to Seaside Park by steamer--children enjoyed it for a while but soon got tired and fretful; what with the heat and the crowds and the late hour of getting home it really didn't pay. _Sunday_--In bed till nearly noon; read the papers; changed the soil in Mollie's potted plants; afternoon, Tom and his wife and Charlie Nichols and his best girl came over and all stayed to supper; strolled over to Mother's and found everyone there. "Over against that let me put a few lines from the diary of Elihu Burritt: _Monday_--Headache; 40 lines Cuvier's 'Theory of the Earth'; 64 pages French; 11 hours forging. _Tuesday_--60 lines Hebrew; 30 pages French; 10 pages Cuvier; 8 lines Syriac; 10 lines Danish; 10 lines Bohemian; 9 lines Polish; 15 names of stars; 10 hours forging. _Wednesday_--25 lines Hebrew; 8 lines Syriac; 11 hours forging. "Who was Elihu Burritt? He was a New England blacksmith who worked on an average 10 hours a day at his forge; but who studied in his spare moments until he became known and honored all over the world as 'the learned blacksmith.' He became great--not by forging--but by the way he used his afterwork hours." IV WORKING HARDER "It was the rule of his life to study not how little he could do, but how much." These words were spoken of a great publisher and might have been made the text of the volume issued to commemorate the centenary of the business house founded by the man of whom they were spoken. The young man was sixteen when his father drove him from their country home to the city, and apprenticed him to a firm of printers. As an apprentice he and another young man were frequently partners in working an old-fashioned hand press. "One applied the ink with hand-balls, and the other laid on sheets and did the pulling. They changed work at regular intervals, one inking and the other pulling." The biographer who gives this description of the work of the two, adds that his hero was accustomed to remain at his press after the other men had quit work whenever he could secure a partner to assist him.