The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-01

handwriting by practice, with good copies
to initiate; and a few shillings expended
for course of copy-books and written till
you have filled their pages, ought to give
you good idea of the formation of letters
and figures, and give you an ambition to
write neatly and with pains-taking, until
you have acquired good legible hand.
Many men who write tolerably well are
always at disadvantage in committing
themselves in writing because they do not
spell correctly, or are not grammatical in
the use of words, or able properly to con-
struct their sentences. And this defect in
education needs to be 'remedied by study
and practice when you are young men, for
one rarely has time or courage for special
studies atterward. Get an ambition for the
ability to write handsome letter or any
other document, and then work at it until
you can do it. No matter what your tai
ents may be, or what your choice of pro-
fession or vocation, the time will come, if
you amount to anything, when you will
need TO be able to express your ideas in a
written communication, and if you can do
it legibly, intelligently, briefly if need be,
but in any case clearly and concisely, you
will be far more of a man than you would
be if you was obliged to depend upon some
other to do it for you.
If you cannot go to schools and teachers
for help, great deal can be accomplished
by persistent study and practice at home.
Many of the best scholars and most useful
men have acquired their proficiency in this
way. A great deal more depends upon
your ambition and your own will than
upon the circumstance of your surround
Ings.
Said father who has five sons all in bus
iness: "The trouble with boys of this day
is this: their education is all theory and
no practice, until after grAuation, when
we send them out into the world about like
a captain in charge of ship who has stud
led navigation only in books. Those who
have no need of thinking and doing for
themselves before graduation, are at dis
advantage for years afterward, if they ever
get over the timidity and helplessness with
which parental indulgence has fettered
them" So the boy who is struggling
against disadvantages, and feeling that his
chances for an education are almost hope
less, may congratulate himself that selfre-
lance, intelligence and mental ability are
not denied to anyone who earnestly desires
them. 1t is very much amatter of individ-
ual effort, with which the fortune has less
to do than ambition and industry.
You can learn to be a good accountant
and book-keeper without going to mer-
camille school. This is also a very neces-
sary part of a mans education. Slovenly
habits in keeping accounts deserve TO bring
financial disaster. Habits of accuracy,
pride in doing things right, when you are
fitting yourself for business career, will
ensure situations for you when you work
for others, and success when you come to
do business for yourself.
Ifyou want, or expect, a pure clean man.
hood, be careful what you read. You can
not afford to waste much time upon news
papers, except those of the best class. Don't
begin reading story papers or lives of noto-
rious criminals unless you wish to train
yourself for nobody or for an outlaw.
Periodicals of the best class, and books of
the choicest contents are cheaper than to
bacco, and cigars, and billiards, and as there
are none too poor to indulge in those if
they want them, so you can have the best
reading if you try for it, and work for it.
The circulating or Town library is a
great advantage, and a share or two in one
is an excellent investment Many boy
and girl owe their familiarity with general
literature to their access to such a library.
systematic your time, and make other
of having uninterrupted study hours. And
read not in a rambling and desultory way,
but different authors on the same country
or the same subject, until you feel that
you have acquired something clear and
definite, and that you will be able to re-
member. One who has not tried this meth.
cd has no idea how the mind and memory
may be stimulated and strengthened by
such a course, or how much may be added
to ones practical knowledge in even one
winter. Write about what you read, gen,
eraliZe your information, and talk about
it with your own family, so as to help you
in the practice of depressing yourself well.
Too much of one thing makes one dull,
and it is good plan to alternate the read,
ing and the writing, or try some of the &c.
complishments. Music, painting, OF draw,
ing may be learned to a creditable extent
by simple practice and small outlay for
instruction if you can afford that.
1t will pay to be learning something,
and working in some given direction these
winter evenings, you who are not already
over-worked and studying too much; and
it will not pay TO give your time all to loi-
tering, or games, or sociability, or foolish
ness.
1t is not luck or shrewdness or through
any trickery of fortune that one succeeds
and another amounts to nothing; and by
this we do not mean that all who are rich
or conspicuous are TO be regarded as sue,
cessful, and the obscure as failures. But
the useful, the intelligent the wise and
good, have all worked, and have conquer.
ed Incidence, ignorance and littleness
''Man is his own star, and the soul that
Render an honest and perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or III,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us STILL"