The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-04-18
Variety is the Spice Of Life.

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mercantile. mechanical or professional line
to unite with his regular trade or profession,
all OF the side issues which his limited
means and place of business will admit.
Perhaps it is true this may materially affect
the interest and attractions of your legiti-
mate business, or that part of II which your
Single which you have hung to the world
would denote, but variety Is the spice of life
and nothing succeeds like success, conse-
quently II your business consists of all the
varied social and religious attractions of life,
together with the necessities and luxuries,
the solids and the liquids, the moral the
humorous and the sentimental. and should
You fail In the one great effort, you may be
a brilliant success i'm the other. Now the
| gentleman who has said to the world, am a
dry goods merchant, having customer for
| a nice dress pattern Ia variety in all means
| different i'm all IL he fails i'm producing the
style or quality desired and thus loses the
sale may perhaps sell a key of nails or re-
| place the spoke just broken from the buggy,
which was hurriedly manufactured out of
poor material by the dentist who has nothing
else to do these long winter evenings. The
minister may not be n natural orator or per-
haps may not deliver remarkably impress
i've sermon each Sabbath, but i'm his idle mo-
ments he could keep the wolf from the door
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suits, or perchance dealing out liquid refresh
ments to the INSCRIPTIONS. The physician,
should he fail successfully 10 dispose Of his
pills, powders and liniments, may strike a
bonanza with the deadly cucumber which
| doubles one up like jack knife as 1t were,
and gives the attorney at law remarkable
chance TO test the virtues of his latest and
unequaled cholera preventative. The hard
ware man misses a fine chance to sell a bill
| of builders hardware to his neighbor who is
having erected an elegant residence by his
knobs the barber, because the hardware mer
chant was drafting deed or perhaps pre-
paring bill of divorce for his lady friend
| living next door, who is driven to this ex-
| tremty by the conduct of the leading milln-
er who, despite all notices to the contrary,
still insists upon disposing of the article to
the once affectiOnate but now depraved hus-
band. Should the extracts and tinctures of
| the licensed pharmacist prove drug on the
market cObbler's bench occupies but
| minute space in one corner, and now and
| then job of stitching will assist in making
both (waxed) ends meet. The modern no
tel has very appropriate name in the drum
mers' and commercial mans home, and a
good hotel is an ornament alike to the small
er villa as well as the larger and more i'm
pOrtant city. Now each one of you business
men and women can do something in this
line, you have the room, you have the means
and you must necessarily put i'll your time,
and box Of sardines, together with picked
tongue. pigs feet, loaf of bread, or even
crackers and cheese makes q cheap and very
paatable lunch, and although you may be
walking on the pedal appendages Of your
landlord neighbor, or gripping the Industries
of the poor widowed mother who is striving
to support her family by this restaurant bus
mess exclusive, yet it adds cents to your in
come and cents make dollars. If you are
not prepared to make this preparation you
can at least arrange table at which lunches
may be spread and the weary farmer be at
ease with the world while partaking of his
ham sandwich careful fingers at home pre-
! pared. The landlord, in his idle moments,
can supply all such little deficiencies by
| cleaning old clothes, filing saws, or advising
his allowance of settlers. which every hotel
is supplied, to go outside and trade with ex-
elusive dealers, or, il driven to it, play q
little pedro. which by the way (perhaps you
will kick ON this) is very interesting amuse-
ment and adds another to the many attrac-
tions of the country tavern. Another excel
lent stimulant for the hotel are those swell
dinners which you have all patrOnized be-
cause they were gotten up by the ladies of
this or that church, but mere particularly
because you get fifty cents worth of food for
fifteen cents in money The speculator who
has ample facilities fer handling the farmers
commodities in the varied form of grain,
seeds, wool, etc. i'm his idle moments can
turn an honest penny by looking after doubt
full accounts, or perhaps handling some Of
the more reliable insurance companies both
fire and life, although when making a survey
or writing a ''please remit" he may lose a
Of hat o a
of wheat that will grade A No. and be 4
credit to the car load, and the insurance man
to keep his head above water and make up
the little deficits caused by others tampering
with his legitimate business can put one of
those new and novel mills on one corner of
his secretary, and with the gall that most in
surahce men have free power, turn out
chop feed at the rate of from fifteen to fifty
bushels an hour, and thus l might enumcr-
ate until had exhausted the whole business
vocabulary, but this is sufficient to satisfy
the most INSCRIPTIONS that nothing succeeds
like success and that truly variety is the
spice of life and with the business system
backed up by enough pluck, energy and cap
ital there is no such word as fail. Should
you fail in controlling that better class of
trade which exists in every vicinity i'm your
branch of business and allow them to
system better and more complete lines of
goods are carried you may perhaps merit the
name properly attributed to those embarking
in this medly business system-a financial
failure-Or what Is still in advance Of this be
entitled to that modern western phrase, ''he
is hustler" OF course this combination OF
affairs, mechanical. mercantile and profess
siOnal may not meet with the requirements
of these better cash customers who look for
the fine and more desirable class of dry
goods i'm a dry goods store; for hats in hat
store; for shoes in shoe store; and do not
go to an elevator for legal advice, to dent
list for carpenter work, to blacksmith for
hoop skirt, hustle or the latest style of
ladies' hat to physician for search war
rant OF a bill Of divorce, to an attorney at
law for a remedy for SPAWN or ringbene to
a veterinary surgeon for a bill of groceries,
or even to millinery shop for bug juice;
but dear reader If you can educate people up
TO this point you can truly say yours has
been a checkercd but remarkably busy