The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-08-04


ought to do. choose what you like best
to do, learn it thoroughly, then faith
fully serve your selected vocation, ex-
erclse every faculty, use every legiti'
mate agency, and your way to the front
will be won. You may win high posi-
ton il you will. Opportunity passes
your door daily. Are you ready
III. Pleasure. We might have said,
Women, Vine, and Want. The young
man with a salary of fifteen dollars a
week, who must see every new play,
smoke three cigars and nine cigarettes
a day, play billiards one or two even
ings week, and hire turnout every
Sunday, will grow short-will fail.
There is no hope of ultimate success
in the young man who drinks intoxi-
eating stuff; nor is the case better with
him who INDUCES in the society Of any
woman whose influence is not purify
ing and elevating. Il makes no diff
ference whether she be called fast, fly
flip, or something worse. Avoid her.
There are two kinds Of women only
good women and bad women-ihe
former the best and the latter the worst
of all God s gifts to men.
No man can expect to retain his place
in society, in business, in the world,
who INDUCES recognized vices. In his
business he will make many mistakes
every day, because his head is full Of
moonshine, and he IL cheating himself
day aud night.
Ill Bad Health-the direct result of
bad habits. The main thing in business
is force or neruc. Hs who breaks his
nerves to pieces with the bad habits
mentioned above must expect to fail.
Every man Of experience knows what
muddy eyes and a talIow face mean.
In business. an attractive appearance
and courteous manner are most i'm
portant in politics and the professions
they are indispensable. The man who
is debauched and irritable. or whose
presence is like a cesspool. will rarely
attract business, while all of Us like to
deal with him whose every expression
makes it "a fine day"
". Wrong Occupation. He who de-
lights IN his work will succeed; be who
hates his work will fail. So of frequent
changes Of occupation bred Of iancied
disgust, or belief that somebody else s
work will be more to the taste. "A
rolling stone gathers no moss.
V. Wild Spe ulation-from desire
to make money to- fast. \ young
mans first investment should be some
thing absolutely safe, else by frequent
losing he become discouraged and give
up trying to save. The young man who
is always trying to got one thousand
per cent on his investment will gener
ally get nothing Sock speculation Is
the bottomless pit which +, llows up the
savings OF fast and foolish young men.
VI. Extravagance-of The more lnno-
cent type. There is the young man
who. on a small income, thinks he must
have three or four fifty dollar suits per
wear: must be shaved By fashionable
barber: must have hats which bear on
their inside the trade mark Of Dunlap
or Knox; must carry an expensive cane
and a fine silk umbrella: must board at
fashionable house: must take his dui-
ciued TO the theatre at a total cost OF
seven dollars. including tickets, car
rage and supper, and SO on.
+ None of these things will add any
thing to you in the eyes Of those whose
esteem is worth having. You can take
your choice-spend and enjoy your elf
as you go, and be hireling all your
life, or save and be proprietor. You
cannot eat your cake and have your
penny too. >"
VII. A Hireling Spirit. No man will
succeed. whether lac be employer or
employe, who ''watcheth for the going
down of the sun. and no eight-hour
man ever caused his employer to want
more of the same kind.
There is only one spirit that ulti-
mately meets with great success and
- gets there" is it he. who from office
boy up, seeks only how to make him
self most useful. and whose aim it Is to
render himself Indispensable. On the
other hand. the one who see Is how lit
tie he can do and how easy he may
render his place and not lose mis- en-
ployment altogether, is unfit for not
only his own, but any business and
sooner or later he will be recognized
as least valuable, and be
dismissed. The employe who Is
afraid Of doing too much is a
close relative TO hlm VINO wants 10 90
nothing. They are neither of them in
the remotest degree a relation to the
man whose willingness TO do every
thing possible places him at the head Of
the list.
These hints as to some of the quick
sands on which the ninety seren per cent.
shipwreck. are given with the hope,
that needing them, even young men Of
the most moderate talents may have a
prosperous voyage.
HOMAN'S SUNNY TEMPER.
What blessing to a household Is a
merry, cheerful wOman-one whose
spirits are not affected by wet days or