The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-09-17
MAKING A NAN.

MANAGES. assume the Shapes OF immense
Importance to the active Imagination O
boyhood.
Every boy expects to become a man
From time to time he repeatedly
counts over the number of years thai
will elapse before he is twenty-one.
| Quite early in boyhood, the pleasure
taken in these "counts'' seems greater
than in the closing years of his minori.
ty. As he gets up higher and higher
in his "teens," strange to say. the boy
finds his anticipations of being his own
master afford him less pleasure than
when ten years younger.
He begins to realize that the pleas
ures of boyhood were brighter because
they were so free from the shadows OF
responsibility; that, after all, it is quite
a pleasant thing to possess and enjoy
the comforts of home,. without feeling
compelled to look after the taxes, or the
rent, and perhaps make constant exer-
ton to keep the interest paid up.
He finds it convenient to 90 to father
or mother for all, or part, of the mon
ey when he wants new suit, instead
of having to work week after week for
somebody who feels very little interest
in him, and perhaps then be put off
month after month without his pay.
AS the boy draws near the time when
he is to be considered man, he per-
ceives that when young men try to get
situations, or start into business for
themselves, great many questions are
asked about their qualifications, their
morals, their past reputation and hab-
its. He finds that some young men,
with the best of Recommendations, must
try a whole year before they succeed in
getting creditable situation. even at q
low salary perhaps four or five dollars
week scarcely more than enough to
pay board.
He realizes that if the young man at
tempts to start into some business for
himself, all others in the same line of
business consider him an intruder, who
may injure their interests, and they re-
sist his progress by making finer dis
play, by cutting down prices and by
diverting from him the patronage.
Beginners in business meet with diff
culties on every hand. Creditors are
chary about giving long trust; debtors
are Indifferent and neglectful about
making payments; many are in the
habit of repeatedly promising, only as
often to disappoint; the world isharder-
faced and meaner and colder than they
had imagined it was.
As the boy draws near manhood, he
Perceives these unpleasant realities.
The beginner, with limited capital and
small experience, cannot sustain the
strain of losses; nevertheless, he is the
first one poanced upon by the beggars
who never think of working for their
living, and by the frauds who make it
business to buy all they can and get
the advantage of all the labor they can,
with no intention of paying for them;
and although he is now man, he finds |
that fortune does not pour money into |
his hands in the wonderful manner he |
had read of in fairy tales; but bills |
must be promptly met, or goods seized,
rent must be paid, or levy will be made,
license and taxes must be liquidated, |
and unless he is extremely economical,
he will not have enough means left |
to buy himself even one plain suit q |
year, while he was accustomed to
having two suits every six months when
q boy. 1
What kind Of a man are you max.
ing?
When young men start out in life
they need capital Their father or
some friends may be enabled to loan
them some money to start into bust
ness; but if they are indolent, loving
case rather than work, seeking pleasure
instead of attending to duty; If they
are careless in regard to small matters
and neglect their opportunities to adj
vance their interests; if they are ex-
travagant in their habits and spend
money faster than il is earned-it can
make little differences whether their
capital is small or great; it win be
squandered-such men are failures.
1t young man hss cultivated fond
ness for theaters, horse-racing, card
playing, drinking and gambling. he has
developed into what is called .fast
mana man summed by all good and
worthy society-he is victim of self
-uin. TIA young man is spendthrift,
md wastes money upon unworthy OBJ
ects. and to replenish his supplies man.
lges to procure money that does not
belong to him by robbing his employer,
public funds, or forging