The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-01-10
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am always sorry for a man that
Knows how TO do but one thing. !
gave ten dollars TO one who could
speak and write FIVE or six languages
and translate beautifully, but IN the
middle of hard winter he could not
get a living. remember another
man who had preached twenty five
years, till his throat failed him, and
be used TO go round looking very blue
and sad, until people pitied him and
made little donation parties for him,
because he wss good for nothing but
to preach. knew a lady once that
had taught school for twenty years
till she was poor, nervous broken
down woman, and really didn't know
how to make a dress for herself !
know a man that wants TO keep store.
and he SITS with his thumb in his
mouth waiting TO be kept. Ihesrd Of
a minister, who, when his people gave
him horse and buggy, had to wait
for the deacon's wife to come over
and show him how 10 harness, for he
didn't know the bits from the crupper.
Now, boys and girls, every real
man should know how TO do one thing |
right well; and he ought TO know
how TO do several things tolerably |
well. Every wise farmer has a prin-
cipal crop; but he always puts in a
little something else, so that If his
main crop fails, be will have something
to live en-. Don't carry all your eggs
in one basket. Don't put all your
money in one pocket II you want to ,
get along right well, learn one sort OF ,
work to get living by, and all sorts 4,
of work to get along with when your /,
one sort gives out.
At West Point, where they take
boys and teach them to be perfect
soldiers, they have to learn among ,
other things, to cook, to make bread,
and make their own beds, and do their ;
own sewing, and sweep and dust (;
because you know a sailor or a soldier
never knows where his duty may call
him, and the man that knows how to
do the most things is the best sailor,
the best soldier-that is to say the
most of a man.
/ never saw a woman do a mans
work handily but / liked her all the
better tor it. And never saw man
do a woman's work neatly, but l
thought the more OF him. For you
see that work is something that needs !
to be done, and he who knows how
to do most will have the best chance -,
to make money, or, which is better =,
still, make himself feel like q useful
man. For, you see, if man feels that =,
he is of no use in the world, except to !
be bug in a crack, and if the crack
widens be scared and drop, or if the ,
crack closes be pinched, he is always
anxious about that crack, for fear that
something is going to happen and that .
he will be out IN the cold or else jam :
ned Such a man can never be hap :,
py, because he can never feel that he :
to much. But if man feels
hat if he cannot make shoes he can :,
.urry horses, lay sidewalk, rake stones !
,ut of the road, or spade in the gar :,
len, or take care OF sick folks, or scour
Id coats, he is always sure he can do -,
That man will never feel :,
cared.
So then, what do you say, boys? -
uppose hereafter you do as the cadets -
o at West Point-make your own -
'eds every morning till you can do it N
'etter than your own mother can m
md girls, do you learn to harness -.
orse till you can do it as quickly as in
brother. And boys, learn how to al
make bread; and girls learn how to .,
harpen a knife, and whIttle, and drive !.
aiIs without splitting the board and
,oys, learn how to hem towels, run +,
tocking heels, and patch your trow- n,
ers; and girls, learn TO grease boots 6,
nd wagon wheels, to lay shingles and :,
ase the doors when they stick. Keep q,
our eyes and ears wide open. Learn a,
o do all sorts of work; and my word .,
or it, you will grow hearty and plump, z
andsome and happy.