The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-10
How 10 be Successful in Life.
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! From The Philadelphia Ledger.
i A person in New York, who, as 8
4 lressmaker, has made money and
1 friends, has written to the New York
4 Sun, from her own experience, some
hints to young people, who have to Sc
lect an employment, and make theiI
own way in 1t. We wish many more
persons of experience, OF character
who have been successful. and who are
uctuated by motives OF benevolence
would do the same. There Is some
thing fresh and useful about living eX-
perience, especially where not personal
vanity, but the desire to do others good,
lies at the basis of the narration. Such
information as that may be the means
OF saving thousands of the young, In
nocent and energetic from poverty and
error. The columns of this paper art
studiously and lRboriously devoted tC
the dissemination OF all such truths as
we can obtain, and are calculated TO dc
good to this large class. upon whom the
hopes of this city, and all cities, de-
pend so much. We condense some oi
| the hints from the experience of the
lady we have alluded to, and from 9th
or sources, for general benefit:
l. Get the best idea OF precisely what
you want to learn. Some have this
very definitely fixed; they want TO learn
dress making or tailoring, or bonnet.
making or printing, or drawing and
designing, or wood engraving or teach
| ing. Nature and early education, oil
habit may have made this clear. Bui
others seek only to earn an independ'
enL living. The rough, coarse, easy
work of almost all sorts is paid about
alike, /. e., the lowest that those who
do 1t can live for. But where skill, en-.
ergy, and unusual good qualities are
required, more will be paid, and to gel
clear idea ofthese qualities, the germ
of some one or more of which each one
| possesses, If only cultivated, is the Ioun-
dalton of good fortune. Many employ
ments pay best at first because there
| Is no chance to rise by cultivation, or
because destructive to health or morals.
| These are to be most carefully Stunned
in all their approaches. There are Plen.
ty of ways in which young persons can
support themselves while learning
modes ofindustry, that, once mastered,
will make them independent. But the
most perfect health and good, honest
associations are above all price.
.. Go to the best place to learn. Make
any reasonable sacrifice to get into Me
best house in the business. "rhis is not
always the largest" adds our lady
friend. In too large an establishment
the business may be too much cut up
into departments. The best is TINT
where the best work is done, where
there are fewest tricks, where there is
sufficient capital TO avoid all make
shifts and mean acts.
8. Use your eyes, aud head. and ears
land tongue to make inquiry, so as TO
know not only the particular branch OF
the business i'll which you are en-
gagged, but its relations to other
branches. Know lit the bottom as to
iChy everything is made just so, and
what it will bring iu the best markets
and who are its CHIEF consumers. Tie
principles and the practice ofevery art
and profession are not easily learned.
Employers do not often like to teach
these things. Often they carefully con-
ceal them for fear of rivals, and often
those who are most successful, and
have the most knowledge and good
will, do not know hOtO to teach that
which is so complicated. But by cult
waiting the good will aud easy cOmUerSC. !.
dion of all those around, thousand
things will become plain that the silent
plodder never gets an idea OF. To Sc
cure the respect of employers by dis
cretiOn is a great point. E5
4. AiHI-high.-To be the most exact,
punctunl. diligent, is within the reach
of all, yet how few attempt superior eX-
cellence of this sortI But to use extra
skill, and all the talents God has given
in parts of an employment, in them
selves repulsiYe perhaps, and to use
them generously to SECURE high ends, is
be-the most perfect possible in@any
manufacture, i'll any study, in any
trade. will show how superior excel
lence is to be attained beyond the high
est present conception, and it is that
highest knowledge and practice which
will bring all the reward. People are
afraid of trouble. 81 have always had
as much to do as 1 could, AT the best
prices from the best class of customers
whom have kept from beginning to
end, and among whom found some of
the best and dearest friends OF my life. u
This cannot be done without thought
and study. Many lose customers and
friends because their ideas get too old
to be worked up into use, instead of al
ways growing as they should.
"Let your business be a part of your
religion, but not the whole of it." So
writes the admirable correspondent to
whom we have referred. Pray for the
Divine blessing and have faith in the
Divine assistance, while faithful. But
when disappointments come, as they
will to all, feel that there is something
higher to which they have led your
mind. Be not envious of those who by
greater energy, enterprise and sagacity,
have prospered more thanyou though
in many other things they may have
seemed 10 you infer ior and much want
ing, for it is just and reasonable that
energy should be rewarded with
wealth.; but how much happiness
wealth may bring will depend greatly
upon the dispositions OF mind that
have procured it. Honesty, politeness,
faith in God and benevOlencetsecu
peace and happiness with wealth, or
even without il, aa .r. .Hr