Middletown transcript., 1895-07-27


The thing that is scarce is dear. T
make yourself as scarce as possibl
is plainly the way to make yoursel
high-priced. Mere writing, readin
and ciphering are nowadays like pea
nuts, to be got for song on every col
ner. But how about skilful engravin
on steel or wood, or verbatim short
hand writing, or expert electrical work
or line drawing and etching for tn
press, or applied art in designing house
or house decorationsp How abou
all sorts of work that rises above tn
commonplace ever so little? No, tina
is not like peanuts at all; that is lik,
Penobscot salmon in February, which
costs one dollar per square inch, and il
will make great deal of difference tt
a boy whether he starts out to IL the
world peanuts or salmon.
But some one may say: "That is
we'll to talk, but we cannot all get a
specially in our fingers, can we?''
Yes, nearly all of us. What is a
specially? 1t may be doing something
not generally done, or it may even be
doing something that is very commonly
done in such an uncommonly good way
that people prefer you to do it rather
than somebody else. Quick-brained
boys can make themselves into special
lists more readily than is usually be-
lieved. Even an inferior kind of SER
vice performed il a superior manner
makes the man who performs it
specialists and increases his value,
Now, what about fathers share in
stating boy right? A good father,
who is neither too exacting nor too in
dulgent, is great factor in any boys
favor. He does not expect too much
of his boy. Being his son he realizes
that possibly the boy has acquired
some of his defects by the right of in
heritance. He does not crowd him
too hard. He is not forever compar-
ing him unfavorably with other boys,
because that is apt to break a boys
spirit and wither his ambition. A
wise, helpful father protects his boy;
builds him up on his weak spots; let's
him feel that his father is back of him;
that If he plunges in and strikes out
the best he knows, his fathers is not |
going to let him sink, even if he has to |
push pole out to him. He does not |
fret over much if he is little bit |
slower than some other boys, for pre-
,ocious boys are not always nor often
,he most successful men when they
come to mature manhood. He does
not give his boy the idea that money is
he only end and aim of existence; yet
le teaches him thrift, and practically
encourages him thereto by adding, say
five dollar bill to every fifty dollars
le puts into the savings bank him.
elf.
1t has become fashionable to refer
neeringly to the frugal maxims of
franklin, yet it is the fact that more
opportunities for advancement come
o young men who manage to get a few
hundred dollars ahead instead of be-
lind their creditors. How many times
ave we heard men say: "The biggest
hance 1 ever had came to me when 1
Vas.a younger man, and if had only
ad thousand dollars 1 might have
one into business and been an inde-
endent man, my own master all the
est of my life." But, alas! He did
ot have the thousand dollars. There
ore our boys, who are just now roll
ng up their sleeves for tussle with
his very matter-of-fact world, will
lake no mistake in saving something
s they 60 along week by week. If !.
1ey save little they will find it easy
add little more. And the man who
as some money of his own may, and
often does. persuade other men who =
ave much more to trust him and back
i'm with theirs-and that is the way so
ANY men of small pecuniary begin
ings become men of large monetary =.
svelopment. I.
And there you are, boys! If we
ave written anything that gives any u
you helpful hint, we are glad of it. u
nd may you all live long and prosper. o
Baltimore San. u