The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-09
10 GET SOMETHING TO DO.
A Few Practical Hats 81 Haunting for
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Employment.
There il hardly a large establishment Of
any kind. whether IL be a newspaper ONCE,
a Mnnuractory, or n trade establishment,
that has not applications constantly from
young men who want something to do, says
| the Philadelphia Ledger. II 10 often pain
fn! TO see the hopeless look upon tho applt
oants' faces ~ they turn ava disappointed;
and the scsne becomes the more painful
when it 10 reflected that . Of them
doubtless have capacity for remuusrative
work. and would faithfully attend to 1t II
The truth il that the world is slow to
take mar entirely ON truat, The great
eat singers, the greatest painters, tho great
eat writer's have had to convince the world
| that IL had need Of them before II was will
ing to give them Y subsistsnce. SO true Ia
this that il might almost be laid down as
an axiom Of success that II 10 only to be
won by q hard struggle. 1t takes the attri-
ton Of poverty to bring out what 10 bright
est in . man. u may be . hardship. bat IL
seems to be = Law OF the social economy.
and. being . Law. u must have Justice and
The question Of ''Retsing a position" re-
solves itself into two grand esssntials-
proficiency OF some sort. which stands Tor
dollars and cents in the worlds market
place. and next. tact to dsmonstrato this
proficiency in = way to attract the worlds
attention.
u 10 a mistake to depend on "i~nfinense"
TO get work in 4 legitimate oalling; influence
belongs more properly to the domain OF
politics. Az u rule, too, IL IL y mistake to
ask or expect employment on the ground of
charity-not that charity and business are
Incompatible. but that each should stand
on its own bottom. The best recommends
hon is a sample Of your work; that. With .
frank address and neatnoss of appearance
for tho apparel oft ptoclaims the NAM
may often prove the open sesame" to suc.
cess.
While it 10 good TO have a due appreoia-
ton Of ones abilities. il 10 not good to b
too exaotinR - to the fold Of their display.
The distance between tbs foot Of a ladder
and the top is but 4 short span to him who
has within himself the power Of rising.
The writer heard of q young man who, be-
ing in needy circumstances, went bravely to
work at the f'st thing at hsnd-trench dig
unity. One day his emp!oyer-not = we'll
educated man-needsd some one to keep a
time roll of the mon. The young man vol
unteersd. The contractor took a fancy to
him. found him Increasingly useful. and
the young man is now we'll up tho ladder.
worker that he shall be in love with his
work. If he is = mechanic he will take
pride in his tools; il no 10 a bookkseper he
will plume himself On the merits OF his pen
and on the neatnsss and forwardnesa of his
accounts. Julian Hawthorne counts among
the pleasures Of authorship the Satisfaction
got from good writing materials. As the
late Col. Forney once said to a youthful
member OF the staff. "A man must work
con amore to have his work worth any
thing"
Ayoung lady who wished . place a. type
writer got it in a ~common-sense wav. She
wrote out a half dozen REPLIES" SO to
setting forth her experiences. qualifications.
and ideas A. to pay, putting her figures
rather above the market rate. Next morn
ing their wsre four advertisements for type
writer's in the Ledger. She promptly mailed
her four replies directly at the main post
One of the four shots brought down her
bird. That evening her position came to
her by mail.
It is not true tina the world is a better
market for muscles than for brains. The
difficulty is that brain matter. whatever its
native brightness. is practically worthless
without training and experience. For one
play produced BY a manager a thousand arc
rejected. The accepted one may be inferior
in many respects to many a rejected one;
may have less talent in it: but 10 from q
trained head, and it suits the managers
want, and That 10 enough. 1t IL SO with
story writing. with headwork Of every kind.
Suitability is the quality that gives it
pecuniary value.
Men and women who with certain brill
liant qualities fail to realize this truth
often fancy that the conditions are hard
and limited. Yet theatrical managers,
magazine publishers and many others are
subject to the very same law themselves Dc.
They in turn are employees of the public.
They must suit it, or it will turn elsewhere
for what it wants.
Finally, it ia not necessary that a want
should be proclaimed in order to exist.
sometimes it may be anticipated. Some
times it may even be created. Whoever
can create a want for his wares or his work
il on the way to masterful success.
The philosophy Of the success in life 10
not a whit changed from what it WIS in
Poor Richards" day. His homsly old
maxims on industry and thrift-which he
quantity admits that he himself found dit
fcult to practice-have not been outlawed
by the lapse of years. There is an impress
sion that opportunities for individual sue
cess are being restricted nowadays and
ovelshsdowed by corporations. To some ex-
tent, and temporarily. this may be t Ne. but
corporations in turn are dependent on the
and social qualities that insure
success, and these can no more
be dispensed with than manual labor can
be superseded by tho multiplication of ma
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