The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-10-08
TALKS WITH THE BOYS.

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SOME GOOD ADVICE TO THE RISING
-'H s'aae8 GENERATION. 81 r s1isI
If you have arrived at the age of
Is or IS it is time you looked mat
tiers square in the face and have an
idea of the future. If you were to
answer at once you would say you
would take profession in prefer-
ence to trade. A profession means
several years of hard study, quite
largo cash outlay, and then trials and
rebuffs to get start in business. 1t
is one thing to graduate as lawyer
or a doctor, and quite another to
pick up clients and patients. Ify0u
have fully decided on "a profession
be careful of your first move. If
you have large head, your grand
mother has doubtless many times
exclaimed: What great lawyer
this boy would make Don't try
to make one on the size,acf your
head. We've got any number of
that class in the country now, and
they can't pay their grocers' bills.
If you can pull silver out of your
finger without winking it may be a
sign that you would malSsia good
surgeon. 1t may be also a sign that
you are born to, be aEbuteher. How
will you knew what to pursue? Yonr
feelings arc the safest guide. If left
to your parents and to circumstan-
ces you may be forced into = trade
you can never make success. When
you come to realize that you must
make your own way in life your
forte will be apt to rev cal itself One
of the best lawyers in Detroit was
intended for the ministry; another
served as a journalist, but all the
time feeling he was out of his ele-
ment; another was forced by his ia
Their to learn the trade Of harness
maker. L know of a machinist who
first studied mediciney of watch
maker who tried to become aahlw-
yer; of carpenter who threw away.
three years of his life trying TO be
come a dentist.
After you have selected your pro-
fcssion or trade, what then F? Strive
to master it in its details and to eN-7
eel. If you become a carpenter, do
not be satisfied when you cans saw.
and plain and match. Don't he sat
isfied with 50 per day. Make'youri
self worth SO. Master details, and
push, yourself from carpenter to con
tractor and 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. If 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 con-
tent to mend old wagons will never
iron q new one. The machinist who
stands ut the lathe to do about so
much work In ten hours does not
hope to be better off. 1t the men
who put their heart in what they do
whs succeed.
/ can name you twenty instances
where skilled workmen have been
taken as partners in large manufac-
tories. The clerk who is capable,
honest and persevering is bound to,
win a higher position. 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 a lad
der or scaffOld at 50 so per day.
There are other house painters
whose energy and enthusiasm have
made them sign writers and deeors
ators, and raised their wages to $40
per week. 1t is not SO much Whist
you do, but how you do it, that will
bring prosperity. III. QUAD.