The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-06-14
NUMBER 80.

any intelligent young person with Fair
common-sehocl education can IN few
months learn all that Is nredel "a g a
fairly good workman. II has been
thought that IL takes three wears
to become workman in these
trades. Perhaps ii does take tho
ignorant peasant of Europe that
time. He learns ever, thing slowly.
he has no books on his work,
and Ii he had them. often he can not
read. He is, then. grown-up Ounce.
and it Is n wonder he ever learns any
thing. An American schoo-hov II
wholly different person. Ii he wishes
TO learn brick-laying, he can end tho
whole business In print and can read all
ABOUT IT In less than two days. ANY
wissc-awake intelligent person. deter
mined to learn. can master the wnris
sufficiently well TO earn living inside
OF SIX months.
Having done this, having learned
something Of any ono OF these trades,
there is no earthly reason why he should
not learn another aud still another. 1t
is the samc In everything II you
write sermons, why not play the pi-
ano? II you sell ribbons, why not DO
able to etch or engraved II Yen keep
house, why not paint or cmbrpider, or
play the organ in church, You can do
two things well, II you make up your
mind that you will Every one has
two talents, and thousands of people
have three or more. They are all
around men. They know their bust
ness and are masters in it. and they
can do something else, too. Many u
man Is known down town by one set of
peolpc Ia the daytime and to quite
another set uptown in the evening.
One set think him smart business
man, and the other set say he Is d won
derful conductor or violnist, or poet or
wood-carver Tho very fact that no
has two trades Is the reason that he IN
Uaster in both. II does not follow that
because you have two trades, that you
must be u jack in either.
Have one trade whereby you earn
your living, and then have another,
You will earn moro in the first bv
knowing the second. know man
who works on a newspaper for his liy-
ing, and yet he has good mechanical
trade and can do any common work.
Tie can take a good photograph, play
the piano fairly well, can sail boat,
and cook n first-rate dinner. Does his
regular trade snilcrp Not at ALL He
Is all the better workman because he
has such variety. He can do so many
things that he Is always fresh and
ready for work.
That's the secret Of the whole mat
ter. To be ready for work, to feel that
you like to do it, and then You do it
we'll II Is the change, the variety OF
work that rests and rofreshes. Your
one-t trade man is always tired. His lifo
Is dull and monotonous. He never
thinks of anything excep: his work, and
SO both his work and his thinking are
poor. Moreover, these are changeable
times. The trades arc continually
shifting, aud work that pays well one.
year may be utterly Hat the next year.
and then what will your Jack dop In
England, II the frost Is severe, and the
gardeners can not work, they 90 out in
the streets in professions and beg In
New England, when the winter storms
keep tho fishermen in port, they take
up their tools and make shoes. Let us
bear no more OF this remark. No boy
Df seIse means to be Jack In any
trnde; and every boy who means to
should be master in two or
more. - C.arles Barnard. in Golden
Rule