News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
WHAT A BOY SHOULD DO
If HE WANTS TO MAKE bis fIAREz
~ TifIS WORLD

III HE WANTS TO MAKE bis iIAREz
| ~ this WORLD
I And Place Himself in Position TO be Re-
sppcted by nll who Know Him-A Little
| HomeIy Advice.
"My father is immensely wealthy" "
writes a bov to the Milwaukee Sun.
..beino rated as millionaire, and yet he
wants me TO learn a trade, and work like
an ordinary mechanic. He could ct me
No In wholesale business if he wanted
to. where I could rank with irst-class
business men, and that is what l want,
but he insists on my going to work and
earning my own living. as though he
was poor. and every tiEae I get little
money OF mother, ana Sd cut and hare
time with other sons of rich parents,
and break a few hottles of champagne,
father kicks and makes fuss, just as
though it was going to ruin him finan-
cially. You seem to be kind to boys,
and always have something good to say
to them, SO I ask you to advise me, and
will you also lend me ten dollars till 1
can get some money of mother ?"
Boy, you go to work at the trade
your father wants yoti to, end wait until
YOU receive that ten dollars, enclosed in
a postal card. You are evidently q
smart Aleck, and you think you know
more than your father does. You idiot,
he is the best friend you have got; bet
ter than YOUR mother, Who silly gives
YOU money to spend for champagne. He
knows 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 III
four DAYS. and spend the whole receipts
of the concern in having Il big time
with the boys. If you are weak enough
to spend the money your mother gives
YOU out of her pin money, to place you
IN charge of a business would be to ruin
YOU. He knows that you do not amount
TO a1iy more than Grants sons, who were
SET ND in business, owned the earth for
wear or two, busted and ruined their
father and many of his friends, and are
now looking for job, with no trade to
fall back on. Had Grant compelled his
bows to learn the tannery business they
could now go to work in tannery.
Your father wants you TO be IN a posi-
Sion so if he loses his wealth you will
not have to go to the poor-house. Prob
ably he does not intend that you shall
work at a trade always, but wants you
to learn trade, and If you learn 1t
well, so you can manage a business, and
show that you have any sense, instead OF
being a cvpher, he will set you up ID the
business 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-as's5 most sTfsaessfuI
MANAGERS OF foundries, machine shops,
manufacturing institutions, and so forth,
are men who commenced in the black
smith shop, and learned the business SO
we'll that they can now manage it, and
superintend every detail?
We remember a young man, son OF a
reaper manufacturer, who, twenty-five
wears ago, surprised all his friends by
coming out of school and going into his
fathers shops, with leather apron on,
Some of the dude boys, such as you aret
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 bis business. But he did. He
knew it better han all of us. He finally
went into the Office of the reaper works,
took off his leather apron, and his pants
covered with nineteen colors of paint,
and to-day his father has practically re-
tired from hard work, and the son that
the boys used to think didn't know
when he was we'll OFF, is the manager OF
a business that turns out several million
dollars worth of reapers every year, and
he can go into any department of the
vast business and tell at a 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 bust,
ness men in Wisconsin. His father is
proud of him, and the young man is
happy and thoroughbred. He could
have kicked on going into a foundry,
and could have got money of his mother
TO 90 on q toot, and he could have been
inst about such monumental ass as
YOU seem to want to be, if he hadn't had
a good head, and a sensiblefather. Now,
your father is very likely good dea
such a man as the father of the young
man alluded to, and he wants you to &C
TO work and find out if there is any vim
eear in you. or if it is all slim milk. L
he finds that you take hold of trade az
handily as you now take hold of bottle
of champagne, and will learn it from one
end to the other as easily IS you nov
learn 10 be fool, and show that you art
worthy of being set up in business, yol
need not be alarmed. That father 0
yours will see what you amount to soone
than you will, and before you know i
he will buy your employer out, and sur
prise you by coming in the shop som'
day when you are bending over plec'
of work, and tell you that you cal
change your clothes and go into th'
office and take charge of the business
Then you will be prouder than If he ha'
set YOU up in business before you kneV
ANYTHING but to spend money. In
men YOU have worked by the side OF VII
begproud of you, if you have been gen
tleman while learning your trade, an
they will stick by you, and your busl
ness will prosper, and yop will blusl
when you think of your veal days whel
YOU wanted to be hummer and spend
thrift, and lazy loafer because You
father was rich. Dost like the picture
If yOu do, go to work next Monda
morning at seven o'clock to learn tina
trade. If you don't, come IN to thl
office next Monday morning after tina
ten dollars and we will kick you dow
{ two pairs of golden stairs so quick 20
will think there has been a prematur
explosion of the hind leg of mule
Good day, boy.