Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1882-08-30

wife of fIrmer than puny, vain, ex.
travagant, silly pet wife of millionaire
You will each have made a success in life
not wrecks, but shine out in your own ap.
propriate spheres, because you are in your
own true element-the end for which your
better life was designed, drifting along in
the essences aud forces of nature towards
the goal of your true destination, adapted
to your business and your business to YOU
Now if the boy exhibits fondness for
the horse, the OK, the sheep, for meC han
ism. in carving, drawing, sculpturing,
encourage him; the girl for the domestic
animals, for music. painting, books, needle
work, encourage her somewhere in the
forepart of the journey, you will see the
guide board to success, and usually you
can make them proficient without trouble;
you will have an adept because there is an
adaptation, other things being equal. Few
are the persons who do not sooner or later
evince a taste or a love, natural procliv.
ity for something in life which, if educated,
will develop into life OF success; and if
that permit is honorable, encourage it, for
life thus manned will be d0ubly empower
ed to meet lfe's ills and unfold life's
powers, irresistible in its growth and prog
ress. For an illustration: 90 with me
to Woodstock, VT, some years ago, and
see that poor boy with his lcknife carving
out some image from wood or bone,
moulding busts from null and snow when
Il child, repairing clocks in youth; impel-
led forward by that unrest to unfold the
inherent devotion to the life Of renowned
sculpturer, conclusively brought out in
after life in his statue Of Eve, the Greek
Slave, =" "Washington, and many others;
an honorcd son of Vermont. Again, in
Brattleboro, VT, lad was frequently seen
making most exquisite images from the
snow, admired by every passer by, to day
is known as one Of the lea ling sculptors
of the age; and when you visit your state
statue of ETHAN Allen" or gize up to the
Goddess Of Liberty" you will have
brought to mind that same boy. Away
up in Norway (Europe) a little girl, poorly
clad, finding her way TO the singing
school, whose melodious voice interested
all, whose ambition impelled by that ma
tural inclination to become a public singer
that she might in the future lift her dear
parents from poverty to comfort-3ecured
an outfit to visit an expert in vocal music
in Switzerland to have her voice tested
for the work she idolized before her,-a
p1blic singer-though meeting with dis
approval yet not dismaYed, resulted in
the development of voice upon whose
melodious sweetness Am eric IN audiences
hung in ecstasy to the tune of hundred of
thousands of dollars, who expended as a
public benefactresS, and the securing of
life's competence for herself and parents.
And again, in the little town of Athens
once could have been seen lad not un-
frequently gathering his little associates
around large stone in the orchard or the
leach tub by the house side, mounting the
same, preaching to his young audience in
his infantile eloquence, amid showers of
applause; or the tumbling over of the
leach, eXclaiming "it is good to be perse-
cuted for righteous sake; Saul, Saul per-
secutest thou me?" This natural power
but developed into an eloquence unsur-
passed at the Window count bar; after
years famous before the judicial tribunals
upon the Pacific coast. Many mother
has seen this same gift exhibited in the
! little girl or boy upon the ll)or. cutting
out paper dolls, making rag babies, carv-
ing out something-sone carricature with
L.,
his knife. Or. coming home from school,
punished for painting colorlesS pictures all
through their books, for making images
upon the states, etc. Thus we must as
sumo that natural adaptation is a powerful
auxiliary in the results of life, and it is a
fearful 9ndcrtaklng TO thwart the momen'
tum OF Its doVe!opment' swerVed only to
aVoiu precipitation mat hlhg around hu-
man me. Inc sooner we llnd our boat
upon the voyage OF HE adapted TO the sea
the safer we snail outrlde the dangers that
otnerWlse lmperil our salety' though
some seem TO De adlpt9d 70 most any pur-
SUIT but theV are rare specimens. progl'
dies oil humanity; Va5Sl!atlon ana defeat
usually awaits them: lhen Ihe lrst great
stuny we shonlu MAKE IS; )r What am
best adapted Inc parents 10 SO study the
early procllvltles OF their child, the natural
aoaptatlon whleh dally SHOWS prominence
SO PLAIN That 1t never seems riSht TO stop
their END OF lower thelr ann without Just
discretion, others may be chan9ed, but
they better succeed 10 lie than iall in
more Ihough would not nave 1t Under
stood that there IS not much III ourselves
oitehtlmes TO ADAPT ourselves TO our WORK,
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derous body when the line OF the centre OF
gravity fails forward OF the centre OF its
base. Our observation II not experience
must have reminded US many times OF
want OF adaptation IN HE Many boy
has been sent to college to their ruin that
mig Sht nave made Respectable ana honored
citizens had they renamed on the farm or
IN tue shop because they were not adapted
mentally physically or both, and SO the
reverse Some boys have been held upon
the farm that had no taste, no love, no
adaptation. Many daughter has gradu-
ated at our semlnares who had better re-
ceived her diploma from the intelligent,
frugal kitchen mistress, because she was
not adapted to become the exponent of
literature or the representative OF the fine
arts and sciences aimed unreasonably
high, hopes become blasted, ambition gone,
wrecked upon the shores OF disappoint-
ment, unrecognized in tho marsh on the
higher plain OF human life as the result.
Wisdom 1t is that the business and fitness
OF our lives be well studied For, again l
say, success should be the motto in life. Go
for the top round in the ladder in your
business or pursuit if legitimate, though
humble, and be not content short; if a