is contrary to judgment common sense is that degree of judgment that is common to all men as a business proposition common-sense expresses itself in native prudence natural practical intelligence tact in behavior mother wit acuteness in the observation of character this means that while the element common-sense may aid us greatly in acquiring wealth it will also dictate to us the means of using the same it will help us not to dream of fortunes but to work for them a certain truth which many buy too dear something there is more needful than expense and something precious even to taste — tis sense good sense which only is the gift of heaven and though no science fairly worth the seven pope if pope is right and if common-sense is so needful how fortu nate it is that some portion of it is bestowed upon us all at the beginning and that the means of cultivating it are open to us all whether we be rich or poor strong or feeble other things being equal the young man whose parents have taught him to exercise his judgment and to apply to all his actions the element of common-sense is far ahead of the young man who has not developed himself along this important line for instance the young man comes home from school almost disheartened and declares that he can see no sense in his arithmetic or it may be in his grammar and de clares that by the consent of his father he will drop the nuisance of a subject and take up something else but his father encourages him by arousing his common-sense i learned those lessons once so did your mother and your teacher the boys last year learned this and so will many in the future therefoie it is not impossible for it has been done you need this lesson so that you may be prepared to learn that of tomorrow today's work is the foundation for that of tomorrow and of next week these lessons are steps of the ladder of learning by which you climb to usefulness and respectable manhood thus the boy is taught self-reliance and to apply sober judgment to all his affairs many young students who have attended school for a few years and have attained some standing in the intellectual world return home and refuse to receive the advice and counsel of their parents — thus under valuing their parents experience these young people have learned to parse a complex sentence or to extract a cube root and they think they know everything they forget that the greater part of this hfe is not confined within the four walls of the school room bat is rather in the field the shop — the practical activities of life while