The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-09-01
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!, How have you passed the dayf
: Have you made a dollar or have yo
lost one?
Have you done any good? Have yo
tried to get the better OF some body an
failed or have you been successful?
Have you backcapped anybody or hav
you said good word for . friend or nc
quaintance!
Now, on the level, are you perfectly sat
isned with the days labor, either enta
or manual? Don't give yourself too mucl
Oh q Jolly, or get too skittish. just gt
along steady. IL you have trotted a goot
heat and kicked up considerable dust. o,
up In the grand stand and keep quiet.
Are you getting a. much per week a,
you think you are worth? No. WHY
not? Now II you are making s8 Der week
that is just what you are worth or YOU
would make more. You differ with me 7
Well, now, let me explain. You may be
worth more, OF course, but there doesn't
seem to be any opening, and there is an
other fellow who can do or will do the
same kind OF work for the same price or
less. What are you to do thenf That's
Just the point. You continue to work for
SIX per, and II you are sharp you will try
20 90 more than your share of work, try
10 excel the man who gets $40, and the
nrst tning you know the proprietor, who
Is not blind man, will appreciate the effort
you are making and IL he doesn't some
one else will. This is q pointer to youLs
men who are struggling along on small
salary. Do not DO discouraged. Do not
consider yourself cheap, do not be con-
tented TO work for small nav. Be ambi-
tious to excel. Whatever be- your task
do 1t well. Be prompt. Promptness is a
virtue. Have your employer say in regard
70 you, "He's all right. l can depend on
MIN. know just when he will be here.
and don't have to watch him. You
VIII get Just about what you are worth
wnen you get all through, no more and
no less.
What education is for?
According to the papers we learn that |
upward OF one hundred pupils of the |
bryant d Stratton Business College To-
Gated In the Hoppin Homestead Building.
:. b. stowell principal, graduated last
year 10 good business positions. To quote
rom Methods of Business College, in
answer to the above query we
nno That the president of Harvard
University said Last winter that
tne true object of education is not .in-
formation getting" but effective personal
power In action" This fact, that teach
ers nave been 80 slow to learn and the
ATTY are just beginning to find out, has
ocen the fundamental basis of the system
- instruction pursued in the Providence
ousiness College from the outset. That's
isns' ILLS enectual power" that counts
sAe business world. You can fiji
;. puPns mead up with . little
u this and q little of that and
ona MN into counting room and he
will wonder what he Is there for withont
PRACTICAL knowledge sufficient In oass
'im "a power in action.n This college
vii open September 10, with eyerytbino
eat and cleanly and old and new nunils
VII receive the benefits Of q practical
natter -of-fact business education. Last
ear there were $50 pupils and this wear I
ives promise of slight increase of tba.
umber. Parents who have the interest.
resent and future, OF their children at =
cart should acquaint themselves with
ne merits OF this old established institu- L
on.
- ~e, "nst ~ lty' my wife
'Aea me, said man on Weybosset
iees yesterday, and l told her 1t was a
ew kind Of drink" Then the yentIen,an
hom he accosted took him aside ga
I'VE him stick of Zinzilzabud cbewino
I'm, or what appeared to be the sop,s
IL which proved to be slip of nastn,
'sro, advising the reader to obtain
skets to the grand Odeum st 4
neialde Park, which takes plaoe
cry evening, commencing Sept. Ia
ow whoever Is engineering the adyerlis
8 OF the Zinzilzabud, or whatsyer i,
mas succeeded in exciting a good deai
curiosity as tc what it really is. Tbe -.
Q who has an opinion which sbouId
ppen to hit 1t obtains something worth Z
ying for. "'A
,peaKing about curiosity of people.
hen Barnum fret went into the rpsenr, =,
siness he hired man to take : hricr
q place ii alternately on the four cornera H
the street near the museum. Peonls -.
pped In crowds to watch the man taEo
brick and carry it from one corner 70 DO
'ther until finally he slipped into the cel
scum and . goodly portion of tina to'
wd followed the man in. That was
What Barnnm wanted. les
- 90,
Is 1t legal for man TO marry his wild on
9 sistcr?" was the query put to a man th.
the rear platform of an OlneyyiIIe cal
'tric the other evening. "CertainIvn oo,
the man who was addressed and two an,
Ihree others agreed with him. OF oui
rse the question was asked quick and
man who gave the opinion that II -
Id be done, felt pretty GOOD
hink that there were ssverd more ,ss' 1.
ds on the car with grey matter epouyh pet
ecide that question without consult tra' tra'
lawyer. After the car had proceed ed hol
" rods, one of the men, guess it was GIN
questioner, remarked that I'm gro
n for the widow to be q real trulv
ow the husband must die, and Of II
se II be was dead he could not marry Mr..
Widows sister. 81
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