Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31

aDle 20 marry is no excuse at all. 1t
young man will work before marriage,
he Will work more and better after.
lie has something to work for, and
Will make the most of his time and
opportunities. And true wife will
do her share and be more of help
than he had ever had any idea a wife
could be. Getting married is stroke
of economy.
And young man, don't get the in
sane idea in your head that you ought
to, go to the city. If you have farm
or can bay one, and know more about
farming than any other profession stick
to it. The trades are overcrowded.
Only superior talent pushes its way
up In them. Young men are apt to
get grander notions than they are capa-
BILE of backing up. Don't bother to
think of what you would do if you
were some one else. You are yourself
and you can't be anybody else, so 90
to work and be your honest self
to the extent of your ability. l
know that it is quite apt for
farmer boys to think there must be
some easier way to get living than by
farming, but easy work is something
no man ever found. Work is work.
the world over-never play. If
you have been brought up on
farm think a thousand times
before you leave it. 1t will yield
you better living, year in and year
out than any of the trades you could
get into, unless you have that superior
talent for them which | have referred
to, which you probably have not. If
you have this ability to make yourself
master Of any profession. then go into
it, heart and soul, but don't mistake
the wish to be something in any par
ticular vocation, for the ability to belt.
Don't give up the certain means of
getting a living for the sake of trying
an experiment which you may have
the ability to make a success, but pre-
sumably have not. | have known
scores of boys who forsook the farm
for the city, and in nearly every in
stance they regretted the step they took
and would have been glad to be back
where they were, with the lesson their
folly had learned them to serve them
as a warning. A farmers is the
healthiest life in the world, if he sees
fit to make it so. There is no profess
sion which can be made more pleasant
and attractive, if he will read and
study how to do his work scientifically.
Put the same amount of brains into
it that the other professions demand,
and it is second to none of them. 1t is
the most noble work, and the Joung
man who quits it because he has got
the idea into his head that it is beneath
him, will very likely see the time when
he will wish he had been less hasty in
giving up what he could do for some
thing he finds, when too late, he cannot
do well. And if he gets into bust
he must always remain at the foot of
the ladder. So be quite sure you have
talent for what you undertake before
you leave the farm.
You say, in common with most
young men, that you intend to settle
down "some time" Then why not
now? The fact that most men do in
tend to settle down some time shows the
general opinion is that married life is
the true life. 1t is. 7 gu can never be the
man without a wife that you can be
with one. The sooner you make up
your mind to be such man as you
were intended to be, the better for
you. Don't waste years in knocking
about" Don't "put off till a more
convenient season. that which consti-
tutes the browning act of mans high
est, noblest manhood, but find some
one you can love for life and make her
your wife. Then, and not till then,
you will understand what the posi-
bilities of your life are.
Boys, don't "knock about" Get
married and make yourselves home.
If you take this prescription for future
happiness, resolving to do the "best
that in you ies'' to make the most of
life, you will never regret it.
Sincerely, Do LEWIS.
Contents of q Lady'S Pocket.