Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-01-02
The IIawLeyc Man. Advice to Boys.

And then remember, my son, you have to
! work Whether you handle n pick or pen,
| n wheelbatrow or set of books, digging
bitches or editing paper, ringing an auction
! bell or writing funny things you must work.
II you will look around you, you will see that
the men who are most able to work are the
men who work the hardest. Don't be afraid
of killing yourself with overwork, son. 1t is
! beyond your power to do that. Men cannot
do that on the sunny side of thirty. They die
sometimes, but that is because they quit
work at six P NJ and don't get home till two
A. NJ. 1t is the intervals that kill, my son.
The work gives you an appetite for your
meals, it lends solidity TO your slumber, II
gives you perfect and grateful appreciation
OF holiday.
There are young men who do not work,
my son young men who make a living by
sucking the end of their cane whose entire
mental development is insufficient TO tell
them which side of postage stamp to lick
young men who can tie a necktie in eleven
different knots, and never lay wrinkle in it,
and then would get into West Hill street
car to 90 to Chicago who can spend more
money in day than you can earn in month
son, and who will go to the sherifs to buy q
postal card and then apply at the office of the
street commissioner for marriage license.
But the world is not proud Of them, SON
1t does not know their name, even it simply
speaks of them az old Soandso's boys. No
body likes them; nobody hates them; the
great busy world don't even know they are
there, and at the great day of resurrection IL
they do not appear at the sound of the trump
ct, and they certainly will not, unless some
one tells them what it is for and what TO do,
| don't think Gabriel will miss them or no.
tce their absence, and they will not be sent
for or disturbed Things go on just as well
without them. So find out what you want to
be and TO do, son. and take of your coat and
make IL dust in the world. The buster you
are the less deviltry you will be apt to get in
TO, the sweeter will be your sleep, the bright
er and happier your holidays, and the better
satisfied will the world be with you.
No my son, the world does not owe you a
living The world does not need you yet
you need the world. II you can convince the
world that you are necessary TO its well be-
ing, its happiness, its pleasure, its moral eI-
istence, then the world will begin to claim
you and make room for you in the body pews
with the softost cushions and the easest foot
stools. But don't fall into the common error
Of supposing the world owes you living.
1t doesn't owe you anything of the kind.
The world isn't r tsponsible for your being.
1t didn't send for you, it never asked you to
come here, and in no sense is it obliged to
support you now that you are here. Your
living is here-a good, comfortable living.
Plenty to eat, plenty to wear, an abundance
Of good healthful, hard work, ripples of
laughter and sprinkles Of tears, hours of hap
piness aud moments OF heart-ache, days OF
labor and nights of rest, duties to be per-
formed and rewards 10 be won it is all here,
son-disappointments, struggles successes
and honors, but the world doesn't owe you
one OF them not one.
You can't collect your living as you would
debt by simply presenting your bill, or Civ
ing your lawyer the account to sue. You
have TO work for it, son, and work like Tro-
jan, too. When you hear a man say the
world owes him living and he is going to
have it, make up your mind that he is just
making himself good excuse for stealing a
living, The world doesn't owe any man any
thing, son. 1t will give you anything you
earn, and you just look out over the world
and know that all the plunder you can gather
in by honest work is yours, and no more. II
you can't get any, why, none Of it's yours
aud if you can reach out and carry away ten
times Ms much as your neighbors, why that is
all yours, aud he has no right to wait and
whine over his bad luck and want you to di-
vide. And, my son, in all human probability,
you will not want to divide. hope you may,
but its very likely you won't.