The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-10-04
HINTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
What to DO and What to Be-Helpful
Suggestions of Successful Men.
Wisconsin JOurual of Education

wisconsin Journal of Education.I
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner, a
famous writer, once wrote the follow
ing story:
"If | owned a girl who had no de-
sire to learn anything, | would swap
her for a boy. If then the boy did
not desire to learn | would trade him
off for a violin or a lockwood vase.
You could get something out of a
violin, and you could put something
into the vase The most useless OF
things is that into which You can put
nothing and from which you can get
nothing. The boy or girl who has no
wish to know anything is the one and
becomes the other"
The boy who doesn't care what
other people think of him, or whether
he amounts to anything or not, IS in a
very bad way indeed. In the first place
it shows lack of pride. Now there
are two kinds of pride-the true and
the false. False pride IS that kind which
makes a boy ashamed to carry the
market basket for his mother ashamed
to wear old clothes when his father
can't afford him any better; ashamed
10 say "no" when he ought and
ashamed to ask questions that he ought
to know about but doesn't. A boy
who is all that is very likely to argue
what's the use" when he is advised to
stick to his studies, to be thorough in
his work and conscientious in all his
dealings.
There was once a little boy who
became interested in earthquakes, and
he asked questions of everybody on
the subject OF earthquakes, until he
was old enough to read about them
himself. Then he became SO interested
in the subject that he began to study
the cause of the Disturbances from
that he went into the study of electric
ity, and began to study machines,
and finally learned to put up electric
wires and bells. Before he was old
enough to- go to high school he was able
to earn lot of money doing these
things, and had several men working
under his direction. That boy was
too proud to go through life without
learning something of the world he
lived in. The golden rule that should
guide boy through life is whatever
you do do it we'll"
One of the richest men in the Coun-
try gives the following advice as to
the road to success:
g want to impress upon you boys
the necessity of punctuallty. If you
engage to do anything at a certain
day or hour do not fail to do it. And
if you find you can not, notify the
person you have promised SO that they
will not be disappointed. regard punct
uality as one if not the very cardinal
rule of successful business career
In the store or shop be promptly Oh
hand the very moment you are ex
pectcd to be there, and do not hurry
off in the evening before the proper
time. Boys who work by the CLOCK
are soon found out, and are not gen
orally in demand when promotion
are to be made and salaries increased
Cyrus w. Field once told me tina
he considered half of his success il
life to be due to his punctuallty. HI
was always at his Office at the yer,
minute each morning, and if he made
an appointment to talk business to {
man, he never failed to keep it.
81 have made thousands upol
thousands of dollars by being on hant
at the right moment, and ! conside
punctuality as strong a point in bust
ness mans favor, as-well, it is secont
only to honesty.
" Once that your employer under
stands that you are faithful in getting
to work at the hour he has engaged
you to begin, he will have more con
tldence in you, and your chances c
promotion will be far better thai
those of the boy who sneaks in hal
hour late each morning with som
poor excuse for his tardiness."