The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-09-15
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Is George better fellow than I amP
Yet he gets his two months 81 yaca-
aon.s
eThaes no way 70 look at it.
George has d good thing. But is
not yours. that. all. You have AL
good situation; but It short yaes
aon attached to it. Again, that's all
there is to It. Accept things as you
find them, till you can change them,
that ala"
The CHATS all@ Of the wiser man
81 these two had a great deal of truth
En- Il. e wasa f~aFoFite expression Of
his when he wanted q clincher. He
always ended up an unanswerable ar
gument with it, ~explosively and final
". There was as much in the tome
as some men would put into a page
1T meant fact. Some things refscts,
and it is vain to contend With them
To accept them at once is wisdom,
for you viii be forced to accept them
in the end better to do It at first, with
aqaick decision, than to fight against
them for weeks, and be compelled to.
knucke down before them, disap
pointed and spent, in the end.
Now. here we're two young men Of
about the same age and abilities.
They we're both confidential men for
rival houses in the same trade. One
was located in Boston, the other in.
New York. They each did about the
same work. One was employed by a
generous firm, who happened to think
an employe who was worked 16 hours
a day, and bore very heavy response
Bilities should have rest for two
months by going over to do the firms
summer erFands in Paris.
practically two months vacation
George has" remarked the other.
But the speaker worked for a firm
who, while Just, we're rather hard on.
their help. They gave just as good
wages, there we're equally good pros
poets ahead. Only there was sNO
Paris in mine" if I may quote the
speakers colloquialism. Very well.
What was the use Of growing? Paris
is not yours, You are not to think
Of yourself as being robbed Of a Paris
trip because the other fellow has it.
You never had it. II was, then,
never taken away from you. You
would not have thought Of the Paris
element in your years compensation
had you not seen it in his. What you
have to do is to forget Paris. Itisnot
IN the usual line Of things. Count
the other fellow lucky if you think
Of him over there, and be generous
about it, too. But don't count your
self unlucky, that is the important
point.
Another man drives his sidebar and
mare out to the park, after business.
Very good; 1 can't. 1t is not mine
yet. / put the thought Of discon-
tent down; perhaps when I get up he
viii be higher yet. All right, His
things are not my things. 1 insist
on living my own life. Lmay deserve
all that he has, and more; but 1 have
not got it, and that ends it. If the
truth we're known, perhaps I could
as well afford the turnout as he can.
Perhaps I like to spend my surplus
some other way; maybe prefert to get
married, and SO buy ribbons for a
pretty woman, and bicycles for hand
some children. That's my business.
AT all events, I am not going to play
the cOnsummate fool, and scratch
myself with nettles every time I see
the other fellow spinning down the
road. It's not mine, that's all.
Another man gets a promotion.
Well, mine has not come yet. What
is his promotion to me, anyway? It
has not knocked my pay down a cent.
He happened to be in good fortune.
There was a happy combination Of
circumstances; a man ahead of him
was killed on the railroad, and there
was nothing for it but to put this
man into the dead mans shoes. Dc
I want any old fellow killed to make
way for me? No, thanks. / do not
go round the store with loaded re-
yolvers in my minds pocket, killing
off men, in thought, to get up in the
world. Or it may be that my school
mate had a rich uncle. did not have
a rich uncle. That ends it. I mus
be my own uncle. I'll cheerfully try.
His uncle is not my uncle. All the
frettiug in the world will'not change
the fact. I may have a rich auntie
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