The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-12-26
Advice to Young Men.

Inc Chis.go Record asked seyera,
SUCCESSFUL business men to write arti.
sies upon the subject of success in life
~ young men, pointing out how, ac.
eordlng TO their own experience, it ia
pest achieved. From an article written
ny Harry G. Selfridge, of the firm OF
Marshall Field & CO., the following is
an extract:
statisticians inform us that in New
iork city, for example, of the recog-
nized successful business men, includ.
ing bankers, railroad presidents, large
merchants and manufacturers, vessel
owners, doctors, lawyers, ministers,
etc, ninety-six out of every 100 are
country-bred boys, and those Who spent
the nrst twenty years of their lives on
FARMS or in small villages, and that, APP
patehtly, the Better air. the freedom
IRON confinement and the usual phys
zeal labor give to country-bred boys
such splendid constitutions that in the
battle OF life with city-bred boys the
country lad too often has a great ad-
vantage.
Such being easily proved facts, we
are led to think that II life during
noyhood is h chief requirement for flu
cure success in the city, but it must not
oe that while the ~ninety-six
men are building monuments of success
OUT OF the stones in each days path
.heie are thousands or hundreds of
thousands Of country-bred men whose
starts l n city life seem desirable in ev-
cry way, who utterly all in reaching
the goal.
why is it?
The young man who Is about to
start out for himself should, If possible,
thoroughly know his own strengths and
weaknesses. OF you, therefore, young
man, the asker of the question which l
am trying to answer, / ask in return:
can you resist temptation?'
Have you the moral courage to say
No! When, perhaps, the word viii
prIhg upon you the ridlcule Of others?'
Are you able to PICK you compan-
lohs carefully, or. when experience
proNss them to be not su, h as you
should have, have you strength suf-
and form other associat.ons?'
Have you determinations
Have o Perseverance, or are you
easily discouraged
Have you good health?' For the
battle of life is rarely successfully
Iought in the great cities without this
splendid gift.
Are You energetic, even when the
work in hand is not of a pleasing kind,
or Is there q. thread of laziness in your
natufe! You can't keep up With the
leaders If o are lazy, and the city is
no place for who is, and the fact
thai there are great numbers OF lazy
men in every city makes 1t more posi-
Bile for those who are free from this
handicap to success to win the goal.
Are you willing to do2'
can you control your temper?'
Are o absolutely honest-not rea-
sonably honest, but is your determine
tlon, no matter what happens, to do
ina which will always withstand the
strongest investigation of II critic or
of your own c~onscience?'
In answering these questions to
yourself, don't DOL yourself, don't make
yourself think that conditions exist
which do not; that you have persever-
ance when sober thought tells you that
you lack 1t; that energy is there when it
IS really wanting; that you can say no
When you lave tried it and failed.
Don't fool yourself. 1t is much wiser to
assume that you ara not right in these
points and then try to prove to yourself
the contrary. Because one lacks these
things today is no reason for always
lacking them. Young men can, I be-
lleYe, make themselves largely sucn as
they choose, and that desirable trait of
character which is wanting can b. bull.
up and encouraged until it becomes a
Dart or ones self"