San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-06-09
O AMI SCHOOLS.

AND SCHOOLS.
Out of the "home" into the
"street," out of the street into,
where? Imagination can fill the
hiatus.
1t is the purpose Of the present
discourse to consider the school of
the business world. Not the bust
ness school, or college in q techni-
cal sense, but the great school of
actual business. There are as
many different business schools,
and they vary as widely in their
teachings and characteristics, as
there r home schools. These
business schools have some things
in common. They have some
other things in which they r as
far apart the one from the other as
the poles.
Among the first things taught in
the business" school is punctuali-
ty. No matter in what department
of business you enter for instruc-
ton this will come first. You may
be apprentice in some place where
handicraft is taught, or clerk in a
store, Office boy with some profess
sional gentleman, or bartender in
some saloon; janitor in heaven or
hell, 1t is all one, you must be pune
tual. The boy who has been trained
to habits of punctuality at home
willreadily drop into the situa-
tion, asst will be second nature.
The boy who has been allowed to
run loose on the streets, without
being taught the worth of the
hours, will find himself in a
straight jacket. He will either
accept the situation and painfully
learn the lesson, or he will kick
against the restraint and lose his
place,
The same is true Of the girl who
is THRUST out to earn her own livi-
ing. No matter whether as shop
girl behind the counter, or as sew
ing girl in family OF shop, or as
typewriter in Office, or as domestic,
as nurse, or companion, or teacher
lit is all the same. Punctuality is
the first letter of that new alphabet
of business life that is to be learned
by the new conner into this bust
ness world. Happy is that young
woman who in the more lenient
school of home has been thorough
ly taught that punctuality is the
soul of all efficient service. Equal
ly fortunate is that boy who has
been taught by father and mother
that eight o'clock always means
sixty minutes after seven.
Having learned that the hour for
beginning the work Of the day
must find you present ready for
that work, the next thing is to
understand that to work is what
you are present for. Industry is
then the second letter of this bust,
ness world alphabet. The time OF
the employed belongs to the EN-.
ployer. This is a fundamental
truth and it lies at the founda-
tion of all success in bust.
ness. 1t is not merely the per.
functory filling in of certain hours
Of the day that will discharge your
4. obligation to your employer, but
the industrious and careful i'm.
provement of every opportunity to
render profitable service. The boy
or girl, the woman or man, who
serves in this spirit is never left
out in the cold. Their services are
always rewarded in the end, simp.
ly because no employer can afford
to let such services go unrecog'
nized.
Boys and girls who begin their
business education in any depart
ment Of daily action in this spirit
are soon noticed. Employers
are as anxious for this kind
of service as the money len
der is for the highest rate Of in
terest. This is the highest kind o.
service and is invaluable. II il
should happen that some unap'
preciative employer should not
recognize this quality, there is nc
need of encouragement. Stick tC
your work in this highminded way
and some .other employer on the