Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-12-15
Shall not Learn a Trade,

Shan't you? I should like know why
not, Hundreds and tens Of thousands
have learned one before you, and many
more will do the same thing. A trade
well learned may make name and for
tune earned, If you ever get either with
out working for it, you will be either very
"lucky' or very unfortunate.
| do not think much Of a boy who
says he is not going to learn trade. If
his place in the world is such that he can
learn good trade and have good situa-
ton, he will be very unwise not % seize
the opportunity. a boy who goes to
trade determined to make himself master
Of his business, and to be well-intormed
and intelligent workman, will soon rise
to the head of his profession, if he pur-
sues the right path. The faithful appren-
tice who delights to do his days work
we'll, and Go it to the best of his ability,
so as to earn the praise Of his employer,
will feel happier and be a more hono:a-
ble man, than he who does just enough
to shuttle along through the day, and then
hurrics away from HE work as though it
were nuisance and curse.
knew boy who was too poor to go
school and college, although he would
have liked that course very well. But he
had to work. So he wen, to learn tt ale.
He tried to do his work always to the very
best of his ability. He went to place,
and one day his master came to look at
what he had done and after closely exam
ining it, he turned around and said to his
foreman, "James, that is very excellent
work for new boy" Did not that lit
tie fellow feel as proud as if he won tri-
umph? He was rewarded from the start
with the good opinion of his employer
and he never forgot the pleasure with which
he heard his masters encouraging words
He always tried to do his work well-te
do in fact the very best and while otheI
apprentices did not seem to care how thel1
work was done, or how they spent thel
masters time, he took pride in working
as though he was in higher post, and il
now doing well in more ways than one il
the world.
Not long ago boy was leaving school
and as had chance to speak to him,
said, "What are you going to do?"
81 am going into merchants jobbin;
house."
"Going to be clerk then. Why d'
YOU not learn a trade % ''Trade % SAT-
he, 81 amt going to learn trade
"Not going to learn trade ? lshoul'
like to know why trade is uot as goo,
:. as a clerkship. l suppose you think
, more genteel and respectable Wha
would you be with your jobbing-house
3 wonder ?" t.
Learn trade Did you never hear G
such man as Ben franklin, who learne
7 the printing trade, and became one of tn
most distinguished men of modern times
g Have YOU never heard of carpente
e named Kittenhouse, or man who mad
philosophical instruments, and atterward
: revolutionized the would with his discoy
0 cries in the steam engine Have yo
: heard of James Watt, or is it genteel nc
to know anything about trades or thos
S who have leerned them /? Who wa
: Arkwright, that followed the trade Of
3 barber or Whitney, or Fulton ? VIII
]. was Gov. Armstrong, Of Massachusetts
t or Isaac Hill, of Now Hampshire, VIII
learned the trade Of printer. Did yo
a ever hear of the man who swung h
sledge at the anvil, and became the distir
v garshed Elihu Burrit? Didyou ever he'
J, Of distinguished cobbler named Reg.
D Sherman? Or the illustrious lame col
0 bier Of London named John Pounds WI