Article March 29, 1900 Issue

Miscellany

J. L. Harbour

Young People's Weekly.

The boys and girls most in need of knowledge are those who think they already know so much that no one can teach them anything. That noble American woman, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, not long ago celebrated her eightieth birthday, and when some one congratulated her on the wide extent and variety of her knowledge and the good use she made of it, she said laughingly:—

"But oh, if I only knew as much now as I thought I knew when I was sixteen!"

The time will come to many boys and girls when they will wish in the maturity of their manhood and womanhood that they really knew as much as they thought they did when sixteen years of age.

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