Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-06-17
VIII He Succeed!

In nine cases out of ten, no mans life
will be success If he does not bear bur-
dens in his childhood. If the fondness or
the vanity of father or mother kept him
from contact with hard work; if another
always helped him out at the end of his
row if, instead of taking his turn at
pitching off, he moved away all the time
in short, if what was light always fell
to him, and what was heavy about the
same work to some one else if he has
been permitted to shirk till shirking has
become habit-unless a miracle is
wrought, his life will be failure, and the
blame will not be half as much his as that
of weak, foolish parents.
On the other hand, if boy has been
brought up to do his part; never allowed
to shirk any legitimate responsibility, or
permitted to dodge work, whether or not
| it made his back ache, or soiled his hands,
until bearing heavy burdens became
matter of pride, the heavy end of the
wood his from choice-parents, as they
bid him good-by, may dismiss their fears.
His life will not be business failure. The
elements of success are his, and at some
time and in some way the world will
recognize his capacity.
Take another point. Money is the OBJ
| ject of the worlds pursuit. 1t is legiti-
mate object. Itgives bread, and clothing,
and homes and comfort. The world has
not judged wholly unwisely when it has
made the position man occupies to
hinge more or less on his ability to earn
money, and somewhat upon the amount of
his possessions. If he is miserably poor,
| it either argues some defect in his busi-
| ness ability, some recklessness in his ex-
penditures, or lack of fitness to cope with
men in the great battle for gold.
When country-bred boy leaves home,
| it is generally to enter upon some business
the end of which is to acquire property,
and he will succeed just in proportion as
he has been made to earn and save In his
childhood.
If all the money he has had has come of
planting little patch in the spring, and
selling its produce after weary months of
watching and toll in the fall, or from kill
ing Woodchucks at six cents a head, or
from trapping musk rats, and selling
their skins for shilling; setting snares
in the fell for game, and walking miles to
see them in the morning before the old
folks were up husking corn for neigh
Dor, moonlight evenings, at two cents a
bushel working out an occasional day
that hard work at home has made possi-
ble-he is good to make his pile in the
world.
| On the contrary, II the BOY never earned
dollar; if parents and friends always
kept him in spending-money-pennies to
buy candy and fish-hooks, and satisfy his
imagined wants-and he has grown to
manhood in the expectancy that the world
will generally treat him with similar con-
sideration, he will always be make,shift ;
and the fault is not so much his as that or
those about him, who never made the boy
i depend on himself-did not make him wait
six months to get money to replace lost
jack-knife.
Everybody has to rough it at one time
or another. If the roughing comes in
boyhood, it does good if later, when hab'
its are formed, it is equally tough; but not
being educational, is generally useless.
And the question as to whether young
man will succeed in making money or not
depends not upon where he goes or what
he does, but upon his willingness to do
his part" and upon his having earned
money, and so gained knowledge of It's
worth. Not little of this valuable ex-
perience and knowledge the country boy
gets on the old farm, under the tutelage
of parents shrewd enough to see the end
from the beginning, and make the labor
and grief of children contribute to the
success of subsequent life.-Hsdrh and
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