Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-09-27
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.
Some Coed Advice to the Rising Genera
ton.

Some Coed Advice to the Rising Genera
tiOn.
IL you have arrived at the age of
Is or Is ID is time you looked mat
ters square in the face and have
some idea of the future. IL you
were to answer at once you would
say you take profession in prefer
ence to trade. A profession means
several years OF hard study, quite
large cash outlay and then trials
and rebuffs to get a start in busi-
ness. IL is one thing to graduate
as lawyer or a doctor, and quite
another to pick up clients and pa
tients. If you have fully decided
on a profession dc careful of your
first move. II you have a large
head your grandmother has doubt
less many times exclaimed: "What
great lawyer this boy would
make" Don't try to make one on
the size of your head. We've got
any number OF that class in the
country now, and they can't pay
their grocers' bills. III you can pull
a silver out OF your finger without
winking it may be a sign that you
would make a good surgeon. 1t
may also be a sign that you are
bora to be a butcher. How Will
you know what to pursue? Your
feelings are the safest guide. Ii left
to your parents and to circumstan-
ces you may be forced into trade
you can never make a success.
When you come to realize that you
must make your own way in lie
your forte will be apt to reveal it.
self. One of the best lawyers IN
Detroit was intended for the minis
try; another served as Journalist,
but all the time feeling he was out
of his element another was forced
by his father to learn the trade of
harness maker. / know of a ma
chinist who first studied medicine;
of a watch maker who tried TO be-
come lawyer; of carpenter who
threw away three years OF his life
trying to become dentist.
After you have selected your Pro-
fession or trade, what then? Strive
to master it in its details and to ex-
eel. If you become carpenter,
don't be satisfied when you can saw
and plane and match. Don't be
satisfied with 81 per day. Make
yourself worth %. Master details,
and push yourself from carpenter
TO builder. Don't Imagine that a
man in search of. a lawyer walks
down the street and drops in at the
first sign hanging out. 1t Is the
lawyer who has climbed above his
fellows that he seeks out. II our
friends are i'll we want the best doc
tor. We want the man who has
made himself the best by study
and energy. The blacksmith who
is content to mend old wagons will
never iron a new one. The machin-
ist who stands at the lathe to do
about so much work in ten hours
does not hope to be better off. 1t is
the men who put their heart in
what they do who succeed.
| can name you twenty instances
in Detroit where skilled workmen
have been taken as partners in
large manufactures. The clerk
who is capable, honest and perse-
vering is bound to win higher po-
sition. The joiner who does his
work to last for years instead OF
months is never out of work. There
are house painters who are satisfied
to stand on ladder or scaffold at
$3.50 per day. There are other
house painters whose energy and
enthusiasm have made them sign
writers and decorators, and raised
their wages to $40 per week. 1t is
not so much what you do, but how
you do it, that brings prosperity.
M. QUAD.