Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1882-11-07
Advice to a Young Man.
Burlington Hsvkees.


blnntness, my hoy, il is well TO cul.
uvate n habit of frankness. BE-
straightforward. When you see
an, thing you want, ask for il like
man. II yOu want to borrow five
dollars OF man, or if You only
want to marry his daughter it
amounts TO the same thing in the
end--don't sidle up TO him and
hang on to your hat and talk politics
and religion aud weather; don't tell
old, stale stories whereof you have
forgotten the point, and Hat, IN.
profitable jokes that never had any,
until you worry the poor old man
! into a tit Of nervous irritation. Go
at him with a full head Of steam
on and your bow ports open, like n
gunboat pulling for shore battery.
! Snor, and paw, il you feel like II, no
matter il it does as,onish him.
Better To astonish man any time
than bore him. Make q dash at
his affections or his pocket. book, or
both. like II brindle bull. with
curl in his forehead. held set, eyes
on fire, tail up and the dust ing
Then you'll fetch him. Or. possibly,
he may fetch you. But never mind,
yon'll accomplish something, and
you'll show him that you have some
thing to say and are not afraid to
say it, and say j, in plain Quilted
States
And take of your coat early III
the fight, my son. Don't he afraid
of hard work. II can't hnli ynn.
Ten O'Clock isn't too late to knock
of, AMI five o'clock doesn't come so
very early in the morning, 70 q
young man, II doesn't come 80
early rs three. 10y two hours. aud
yet how often do YOU GO to ted at
three! Mo- I'm very glad To hear
ynn >nN il, hrcauSc, white three
O'ciork is very early hour at winch
TO rise, it is paradoxically n very
late hour at which to go Ia bed. In
order to he up with the lark in the
morning, Telemachns. il isn't at al
necessary to sit mp with him all
night. But if you are al work, the
midnight oil won't hurt you, 1t
will do you good, because the hard
workers are long livers. You'll
never work yourself to death, my
boy. Now, there's Your sister; she
is more liable to Over.work herself
than any man you ever knew. |
believe the ceaseless, mOnot onous
round Of old Enr> clea's household
duties and domestic cares, or Young
Nansiraas worry over the family
laundry, would kill the oldest man
in America in a week. 1t is true
that womans work goes on forever,
but then, bless Your soul, fair Her.
mionc, don't let that worry you.
Yod don't go OF forever to do il all
And you don't have all of it to do,
even while yOn live. Mans work
goes on forever, too; and I'm glad
Of il. But I'm not going to stay
here TO do it all, and shant do any
more of my own while I do stay,
than | have to. Don't fret because
wdman's work goes on forever.
You viii. have shirts to make and
socks To darn for Neopoteiinus not
more than fifty or sixty years, any
how. Aud M for you, Telemachus,
it isn't hard work that destroys
young men; it's the intervals that
kill. It's the relaxation that hurts.
Sometime you may wake in the
morning with the worst head upon
you that ever made you sigh for
death. And you weren't sitting up
ut work until 200 .. n, either.
You we'll know there isn't a line of
Virgil or q unit of mathematics, or
one stroke Of honest hard work in