Cause of Defeat

CAUSE OF DEFEAT.— PRICE OF SUCCESS.

Every human being would be glad to have agreeable surroundings and ample me ins, but the protesters against social conditions refuse to see that a price for these desirable things must always be paid in some form of effort or abnegation, and that those who lack them are precisely those who find the price higher than they are willing or able to pay. The defeated in the struggle for life are almost invariably the victims of impatience or emotion; the successful, those who can accept bad butter, or a hot week, as merely regrettable incidents in the path toward their goal. Mrs. Wetmore, "Elizabeth Bisland."