Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-08-28
A FOND PARENTS ADVICE.

ALEXANDER Philologus," said the fond
parent in voice sad yet stern, "you are
about to go forth in the wide world 10
carve out your fortune. No doubt you
have beautiful dreams Of what you will
achieve. In your minds eye you sec
yourself coming home years from now
clad In velvet and nne linen. trust that
you may come that way, but fear that
your garments may be composed of bur-
lap. You confidently expect to drive
homewsrd down the sunlit road In gor-
geous equipage with servants and retain
ers. trust that you will zot be obliged
to walk home on the tles and got turnips
from hired men to keep body and soul
together. You SCOT at the idea, and you
may scoH until the claDRor Of brazen bells
announce that the cows are coming home.
have heard young men scot before at
words that were spiced with wisdom,
and have seen them IN after years driy-
ing street cars and saving wood. The
fact of the matter 10, Alexander, that you
have rashly exaggerated idea OF your
own importance In this dreary world.
You foolishly entertain the idea that II
you were to die Tonight the earth would
shudder and wheel backward. But II
wouldn't The sun would rise just the
same, the stars would CLEAN as brightly
as ever. the creek would gurgle merrily
ON Its way, there would still be marriage
and giving In marriage. You would be
laid carefully away In your nicely nttisg
grave, my boy, and the grass would grow
over you, and the brunette COW would
eat the grass and there wouldn't be Q
single Jolt In the whole world because Of
your death.
at is unfortunate that you have mad,
up your mind that you know 1t all
When you have been jostled about a little
while you will want to 20 to some eeelud
ed graveyard and weep. You will b,
convinced that instead Of knowing II oil
you don't suspect anything. Man is Xix,
grounding In the path OF a landslide
Alexander, If the grounding has sense
enough to get out OF the way, 1t is al
right; but If 1t cocks itIelfu up or his hind
legs aud looks wise, it will be everlast
: ingly squelched. Man is also Ike Q
boulder by the sssshors; the boulder may
be great deal bigger THAI the pebble,
about IT, but when an idle stranger fire:
It into tho water II doesn't take any
longer to cover It forever than 1t would
one of the pebbles. knew man once
who could converse fluently In more Ian.
gusges than you could shake cord o.
wood at; what he didn't know about as.
tonomohy wasn't worth knowing; there
wasn't science or an art on which ht
was not an authcrity; knowledge wa
simply sublime. lie forgot more every
day than you can ever hope to know.
Yet this remarkable man persisted
miserably in creek ten fee. wide be
cause he had never learned to twim. Gt
forth into the world, Alexander, but no
with the idoa that you know 1t all. Try
to convince yourself that other people
may have heard q thing or two them
selves, and don't expect that they viii
herald you as the Coming Man. Tn,
prodigsl son was rather fly when be lief
home, and you have heard how he re
turned. He came back on his uppers
without enough wealth to buy a bowl o
soup at fourth-rsto chop-house, ant
hundreds have had similar experiences
Go forth urostentstiously and withou
any drum major business. If you art
not immediately offered a situation u
president OF bank 60 to work hoeinI
corn, digging wells, or feeding threshln
machines. The world is full of golde
: opportunities, but the young man who
go mashed on his dignity that he will no
grasp them 10 certainly to be LETT Ia
most QeDlOrQble m2uuErV