Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-06-25
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BELLOWS FALLS, JUNE 20, 1875
For the Bellows Falls Times.
Choice of OccupatiOn,

4" He has mistaken his calling" is re
marked of many persons, whom W
meet daily.
The lack of energy with which som,
men persue their business and the dis
satisfied spirit manifested by other
proves this sage remark beyond doubt
To those who believe that circumstan
ces often make the man, and in land
like this, where all roads and callings
are open and free to all, how important
is the time when young man is called
upon to decide the starting Of his ca,
reer.
But this question for decision comes
not often, and women are comparatively
exempt from it, for there is little choice
OF occupation for them. Their mission
seems to have been fore-ordained from
the beginning.
But young man, when this all i'm
portant time presents itself, often passes
weeks and months of indicision about his
calling" though meanwhile he has
dabbled in this or that business, without
applying himself with sufficient dill
gence to any one thing, to develop any
decided preference, so not unfrequently
he makes wrong choice, and learns his
mistake after years of hard, uphill
labor, at the wrong thing
Many are miserable lawyers, who
would have made the best of mechanics
laundering physicians who should have
been blacksmiths, wretched teachers,
who should have served as hard work
ing athletic farmers.
Of this unfortunate misplacing GER
tain queer old philosopher once wrote
on practical philosophy something like
this, " God has made, in this world, two
kinds of holes round holes and three
cornered holes; and also two kinds of
people round people and three cornered
people. But original sin and various
other disturbing causes have set things
all awry and now, almost all the round
people are in the three-cornered holes,
and the three-cornered people are in the
round holes. Hence, uneasiness and un-
happiness Of society,""
What shall l do? What am | fit for
Where shall begin?
A youth not experienced in thought
or action, and not conscious or certain
OF his own powers, chooses blindly, out
side ofhis sphere and not seldom, wrong.
The average mind has no special ten
dency. The majority of men are not
particularly inclined to stated laws, and
accordingly are influenced by circum-
stances perhaps directed and assisted
to an occupation by some influential
persons acting in that capacity.
An oft quoted fact-We Americans
hurry-we must be for ourselves, at an
earlier age than others.
English children are at twenty-five
where we are at eighteen or twenty, in
either home or business life.
Of course no stated directions can be
given for particular cases, but there is
one direction equally applicable to all,
and universally acknowledged by our
American young men. Get all the edu-
cation possible, keep in school as long
as possible, from the high school to
college, if you can, instead of languish-
ing behind a counter The men meas
uring silks and laces and matching
colors for pretty young women, or even
copying other mems words or tending
machine, is no commentator and
brings no contentment. Keep to your
books; while you are studying and
you may think of some good
business you will like to follow, and Just
this discipline is needed to develope !
your competency for it. A tendency {
will develop by training Cultivation i
brings out the blossoms on fruit trees. '
A life full of works is glory enough for $
me man, for the truest success is out of !
light, and the reward quite beyond this /
life. EMF u