Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-10-22

advantages.
Here you are, 10 years old, just from
school, and ready to start out for yourself
Have you ever got down to hard PAM What
are you going to- do nexti Going into bust
ness-going to worki What comes firstl The
hard pan of the matter is Just here--what
can you dot
Read, write, and do short sums. Readingi
No money In that unless you mean to be
public reader, and that means a beautiful
voice and years of training and study Writ
ing and arithmeticf Why. everybody can
DO that. There isn't a cent in such things.
Then what was the use of learning these
shngs' Because they are the hard pan of
every art, trade, business and professions
and while they will not bring wages, you
| cannot get good wages without them
| Every business requires some one to keep
the books" There is something for you.
Become clerk. You set out to get place,
and at once find that while hundreds want
clerks there are thousands who want to be
clerks. Not one of the fellows who have
places seems to want to give it to you, and,
worse than ALL half of the clerks are girls.
It's enough to make man discouraged to
see the way the girls have pushed into all
the good places down town. A fellow has
no chance now
At last you get n place-junior clerk in a
big office, with a dozen clerks above you,
and half of them girls. The chief clerk gets
hundred a month, the others very much
less, and you-well, it doesn't pay quite as
well as being bricklayer or carpenter All
the same, you mean to try it. Besides, YOU
don't know how to lay bricks, and as for
driving nails, you always hit your thumb
Pretty soon you find al the clerks, both men
and women, are on the lookout for something
better. The men want to so into the bust
ness, and the women-well. they hope to 90
home some day and never come back Some
Of them, both men and women, hope to be-
come cashiers or head bookkeepers or ac-
countants, because, as they tell you, the
higher the work the bigger the wages.
So the hard pan of the business is that to
earn good wages us clerk, you must be able
to do more than read, write and cipher
pretty well, or US well as you do You must
go to work and learn a complicated art, and
it is doubtful if you can do this without two
years hard work in a school or an office
Very hard pan. Just so, but here is the bot
tom fact. To earn good wages. you must be
able to do something we'll Thousands can
do as well as you can when you come out Of
school. The slow, the stupid, the lazy and
the care ess will underbid you will work for
less money, and unless you can do better,
your chances of earning living as a mere
common clerk are very small indeed As
for making fortune-well, it isn't there.
Suppose you do learn the art, and become |
a first rate bookkeeper and accountant, what |
are the bottom facts Of the businessi Under |
the torn bookkeeper, there are hundreds of |
thousands of people employed in this coun-
try in stores, Offices banks, steamship and |
railroad offices, telegraph offices, manufac-
turing companies and shops Of all kinds. |
Now is this the best thing for you--the best |
work you can do! Let us figure it up, and |
strike balance sheet of advantages and dis |
advantages. !
First of all, health, as that is the most valu-
able thing in the world The work is done |
indoors, in close and often dark rooms, often |
in the midst of noise, hurry and confusion.
Decidedly, it is not a healthy trade, though,
of course, it is not dangerous and men do
often live to be gray old clerks. Second,
chances Does it give chances to risel Yes.
1t gives chances for smart young fellow
like you to look about and pick up informa.
ton, and learn some other business or pro
fession. This is the chief value of a clerkship.
1t leads to something else 1t is true, on the
other hand, that these chances are very much
less today than fifty years ago, because bust
ness of all kinds now requires so much capital
A bookkeeper in bank or railroad office can
hardly expect to start bank or set UP his
own little railroad Thirdly, is it business
you want to follow all your lifel VIII you
be content always to be a clerk, and nothing
but clerkf Plenty of people, both men and
women, never expect to be anything else,
n nd lAn1 sNt,t 100 - l., g r.
happy lives, saving money and earning the
respect of all who know them.
Strike your own trial balance. There is
the hard pan of the matter. What do you
Think Is it good thing for you-the best
thing you can dos Nothing like having
straight up and down talk with yourself
about the real bottom facts of the case.
Would you like it'll That's the point Now
we are fiat on hard pan. Would you like It'll
What man likes he does we'll; what he
does well brings good wages. A mans work
Is for his life. 1t is not for this month or
this year. You are not working for next
Saturdays pay. You are working for the
wages you Will get when you are forty years
older. II you like accounts, if the work is
interesting, If you mean to rise to be
cashier, or chief bookkeeper in some great
house, all right. Work, study, practice,
prepare to rise, for you must rise If you do
these things. Go into the business as a life
work. Climb on the clerks stool, resolved
to stay there.
But if you dislike to 60 to the desk in
the morning, and are glad the close the big
ledgers at night, consider well these things,
You will wear neat clothes, have white,
weak hands, and pale, thin blood, good pay
and nice home, and with a frugal wife
may lay up little money, join building
association, and some day own little home
of your own-and you will hate it all your
life long. Better climb down from that
STOOL and dig about among the real facts of
this world till you come to the hard pan Of |
your life.-Charles Barnard in Once Week.
In an Old English Village.
With few exceptions the houses are built |
close to the street; one steps from the side