The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-07-03

young IeilOW WrItee Ior ADVICE ouu
his case being similar to that of many
boys, he il answered in this public
manner, as it will do others good il it
does not benefit him. He says:
my father is immensely wealthy,
being rated as a millionaire, and yet he
wants me to learn q trade, and work
like an ordinary mechanic. He could
set me up in wholesale business, if he
wanted to, where / could rank with
first-class business men, and that is
what want, but he insists on me going
to work and earning my own living as
though he was poor, and every time i
get little money of mother, and go
ont and have time with other sons of
rich parents, and break few bottles of
champagne, father kicks and makes a
fuss, Just as though it was going to ruin
him financially. You seem to be kind
to boys, and always have something
good to say to them. SO ask You to
advise me-"
Boy, you go to work at the trade
your father wants You to. You
are evidently smart Aleck, and
think you know more than your
father does. You idiot, he is the best
friend you have got; better than your
mother, who shily gives you money to
blow in on champagne. He knows to
an allspice what you amount to, and he
knows that placing you on your own
resources is the only thing that will
save you from shame. He knows that
if he were to set you up in Wholesale
business, you would get the big head in
four days, and spend the whole receipts
of the concern m having big time with
the boys. IL you are weak enough to
spend the money your mother gives you
out of her pin money, to make an ass of
yourself, to place you in charge of
business would be to ruin you. Your
father wants you to be in position so
if he loses his wealth you will not have
to go to the poorhouse. Probably he
does not intend you shall work at
trade always, but he wants You TO learn
trade, and if you learn it we'll, so you
can manage business, and show that
You have any sense, instead of being u
cipher, he will set you up in the BUSH
ness that you understand from hav-
ing learned it from the ground
up. Here, wake up, and take that
cigarette out of your mouth and listen.
Do you know that the richest and most
successful managers of fOundries, ma
chine shops, manufacturing institutions,
and so forth, are men who commenced
in the blacksmith shop, and learned the
business so we'll that they can now
manage it, and superintend every de-
tail? We remember young man, son
of great reaper manufacturer, who,
twenty-five years ago, surprised all his
friends by coming out of school and
going into his fathers shops, with q
leather apron on. Some of the dude
boys, such as You are. thought he didn't
have sense because he worked in the
foundry, when his father was rich, and
they saw him go from the foundry to
the woodwork shop, and from there to
the paint shop of the reaper factory,
and they thought he didn't know his
business. But he did. He knew it
better than all of us. He finally went
into the Office of the reaper works, took
off his leather apron, and pants covered
with nineteen colors of paint, and to-
day his father has practically retired
from hard work, and the son that the
boys used to think didn't know when he
was well off, is the manager of bns-
mess that turns out several million dol
lars worth of reapers every year, and
he can go into any department. of the
vast business and tell at glance
whether the workmen are doing their
duty, and the boys who laughed at him
twenty-five years ago, say he is one of
the best business men in Wisconsin.
His father Is proud of him, and the
young man is happy and a thorough
bred. He could have kicked on going
into foundry, and could have got
money from his mother to 60 on toot,
and he could have been just about such
q monumental ass as you seem to want
to be, if he hadn't had good head, and
sensible father Now, your father is
very likely good deal such man as
the father of the young man alluded to,
and he wants you to go to work and find
out if there any vinegar in you, or if it
is all shim-milk. If he finds that you
take hold of trade as handily as you
now take hold of bottle of champagne,
and will learn it from one end 10 the
other as easily as you now learn to be a
fool, and show that you are worthy of
being set up i'll business, you need not
be alarmed. Sun.
Mind Your Own Business.
There are people, dearly beloved,