Identifier: crayoncharactert00gris (find matches)
Title: Crayon and character : truth made clear through eye and ear or ten-minute talks with colored chalks
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Chalk-talks Moral education Religious education
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind. : Meigs Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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186 always well dressed, and he appeared to be a prominent business orprofessional man. Everything in his appearance and manner attractedthe admiration of the boy. Without knowing it, John was selecting anideal—he was studying the people whom he saw and hoping to be un-like this one and to be like that one. Some day, he said to himself, as the prosperous, well-dressed manwalked by, when I grow up, I hope I shall be just like him.* He hadchosen his ideal. The man was one of the leading merchants of thecity, and when John found this to be so, he was still more firmly de-termined to pattern his life after the man whom he admired. A short time after this Johns folks—his father, mother, brothersand sisters—removed to another part of the city—and to the boysgreat surprise, he found that the merchant lived just a square away.Incidentally, too, he found that the laboring man lived right next doorto his new home. And, right then and there, John learned one of the great lessonsof his li

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