Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-10-01
HINTS TO APPRENTICES.


HINTS TO APPRENTICES.
Whatever employment, either from your
own inclination and choice or the advice OF
your parents and friends, you resolve to pur-
sue in life. YOU must look upon 1t as honora-
BILE. and in the exercise of which you are 10
rise or fall. No young man must consider
his business beneath him, or as IT Is some
fines said, 10 one must look upon himself as
"above his employment" If you are devoted
INCREASINGLY to the different branches OF your
business, you not only increase your own
skill. but by the success that crowns your la
| Dor. YOU raise your trade in the estimation oi
others You should remember also, that 1t
depends almost entirely upon the manner III
which a young man acqults himself IN MS
employment, whether unpopularty is attached
to it or not You are to live by 1t. 1t VIII
make or unmake you-according as you
grace or disgrace it.
Il You must be regular and attentive IN your
business. Ifyou have task to do, ana COM
plete it before the allotted time, you wrong
| llyourself and your employer, by standing or
| sitting idle. BY so doing you impercepti-
libly fail into habits of idleness. Whatever
YOU find to do, you must do it with your best
| knowledge. This is all important If you
| lmean to become an excellent workman. Ex-
! cellence cannot be obtained except by unre-
uniting diligence, without paying any regard
| to hours and tasks. You always find some
! thing connected with your business to do
which may be of the utmost Importance
| though deemed unimportant by yourself a
! the time. Great things are apt to appear as
lltrifles to the young and inexperienced.
H Too many apprentices are apt to conslde
,Itheir own pleasure before their employers IN
| lItcyest, and indeed their own interest, Tor the
1.-two may be considered in a manner connect
ed together. In some workshops, II the mas
ter steps out on business, or II his back b'
turned for moment, apprentices leave thel
work, and spend their time in talking or bois
ferrous laughing, to the great annoyance o
the industrious and steady. Perhaps the,
run out into the streets and associate witt
the idle and dissolute. Nothing sooner III
lures a young man, especially if he aspire
to become superior workman, as every on
should do, than such habit as this. 1t IN
Iiures him in a two fold sense-as workman
and as an industrious moral person. 1t plant
in his bosom seeds that will spring up, an
prove to be nothing but weeds. 1t Is aston
ishing what vices are contracted lmperceptl
bly, in this way, and how many in manhood
have to lament over such errors OF their boy
hood. You must be attentive to your busl
iIness or you will be nothing more than ap
,prentices, when your term of Apprenticeship
expires. Remember that you are thinkln!
one day Of having apprentices, under you
own charge.
Work as if every effort were enrichin
llyourself as it is indeed doing in rcaiity-as
llyour master were by you at all times Ell
lcouraging and counselling you. Not thu
\ you should not have your hours of relaxatlo
and enjoyment. But you should not be to
lIparticular about the hours in day you ougl
iiin yo,lr opinion to labor. IF your master
occasionally called upon TO work while other
sleep, you must show yourself ready an
willing to do the same, without n churlls
and fretful spirit, which of all things shoul
| be avoided. you pay too little attention
minutes ard hours in your youth, you Will 0
| apt to think lightly of days, weeks and month
when you set up for yourself IN the world.
II You may think from the hints have gl'
len that close attention to your business-ar
regard for your employers interest, are
llthat are necessary. You have your charact'
as a workman to form, and remember tn
IIyou have your character as a man-as
iInember of society to bald up. You mu
llnot neglect TO improve your mind-to instol
II IL Will hIlOWlSuSC. hSiS 10 oot i's''S W.
Il ger of its being over full You must devo
lyour leisure hours to reading useful book
Almost every village has library, fro
which they may be obtained.
You may think this small matter, your
as you are; but you cannot sufficiently pri,
such knowledge, as you surely will do, If yo
grow up without it, and see your school fe
lows in full possession of its treasures. Il
careful what company you keep. DO NJ
pass your evenings away from home anon
the noisy and idle. If you do, all your ma
ter's efforts to improve your character al
send you from his roof an intelligent and az
tive man will be i'll vain. You will grow /
dissolutc, however expert workman yc
may be and when you become a journcyma
you will be shifting places often and veri
the old proverb that ga rolling stone gathe
no moss" BE active, vigiant, sober, di.cre
and Industrious. Cultivate your mind al
heart-avoid evil company, and when "
grow up, your society will be sought by t
Intelligent, and you will be an ornament
y the community C2wemom Eagle.