Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-17
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things which seem to him to be manly.
Between these two classes Of things
there are differences a wide as those
exist in the character ana the training
OF boys. One boys ambition leads him
to do some brave and noble deed, such
as he may have seen men do or may
have read in books or newspapers OF
their having done. Another copies
manhood only in the undesirable things
which men do. With some boys the
summit of ambition is to swagger and
strut, to smoke and drink, just rs they
have seen men do. 1t is not very
lofty ambition, yet the boys whom it
animates spend fully as much time and
effort on it as other boys spend in trying
to reach nobler aims and more practi.
cally useful ends.
One OF the noblest ambitions that can
stir boys heart is the desire to be
man in earning his living. Since his
infancy he has been a charge on the
parents or other good people who have
brought him up. Perhaps they are toll
ers " no need all the profits of their own
labor. They have treated him well,
ard he feels that the obligation under
which he rests to them is one which
ne would like to liquldate. So, with an
ambition which has in it many eXcellenl
features, he suggest that he shall leave
school and set himself to work to earn
something. Perhaps he may make
enough to support the good old people
who have cared for him. Perhaps his
efforts may be attended with only a
sufficient measure Of success to enable
him To pay his own way. Small or
great IS the result may be, he wants to
try his hand at business. He is willing
to take the risk. He knows u some ex-
tent what business involves, for other
boys of his acquaintance have engaged
III it. There will be no Saturday holt
DAYS, nor any afternoon OF, nor any
priv legged days when the slight excuse
of au ailing stomach or an aching head
will serve aS u valid reason for staying
at home. Business involves harder
work and closer application than have
been the boys portion ut school or col
lege. I;ut it means the earning OF
something. and that is what the boys
am5it on leads him To desire.
Just here let the ambitious boy be-
ware. To do a. he wants to do is praise
worthy. But perhaps he can do better.
IfEeg goes with an incomplete education,
it " i'll be at greater disadvantage. He
May begin To earn a few dollars a week,
tie handling of which result of houeSL
toll will delight him. But let him re-
member that every month which he
rObs himself of the education he might
obtain, is a month of loss for which his
paltry earnings are no rec0mpenSe
whatsoever. \ halteducated boy who
leaves school at fifteen and enters q
store may receive from two to four dol
lars a week, with numerous kicks aud
cuffs thrown in by the people who are
teaching him the business" This
kind Of teaching a boy the business too
frequently means gettinga mans work
out of the poor fellow for boys wages.
If the by is driven to such situation
by the emergencies of straitened means
at home let him rush in cheerfully ami
do his work manfully; but if the family
exchequer will stand it let him stay
two or three years longer at school. Let
him go through a college
where his time will not be entirely
spent in rowing boats anu kicking foot
balls. Let him enter on manhood well
fitted for manh0od'S duties, including
as thorough a knowledge as can be had
Of the keeping ofaccounts and of ali
other commercial duties. Let him, il
possible also be master of some hand
work when he is ready to enter on thu
work ofearuing, rather than depend on
the luck Of being picked up as a clerk.
There are too many young men who's"
only knowledge is how to be very poor
clerks. Advertise to-day for clerk and
to- morrow there will be two hundred
applicants. A firm advertised last
week Tor skilled engravers, inserting
the advertisement in leading papers o.
three principal cities. Although steady
work and good wages were promised
not one skilled engraver has yet applied,
The boy who Knows how to do some.
thing which will help on with the
worlds work, is one whose ambition
will lead him, to solid and substantial!
achievements