The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-05-03

Among the questions which most
closely touch the heart life of the
home, which are most earnestly aud
tenderly discussed by the fire on the
hearth, none takes precedence OF that
very important one, Which profession
shall my boy choose? The boy Is In
college-at Yale. or Harvard, or Prince
ton, or he Is In a Western university.
or 1t may be he is doing postgraduate
work across the ocean, In Oxford or
Berlin. Wherever he may be enrolled
as a student, however, to himself and
his comrades he seems a man, to the
anxious parents who are trying to fore
cast his future he Is still their laddie,
the object of their dearest sollcitude,
and, secretly or openly. the possession
In which they take most pleasure and
pride. He and they are confronted
with no slight difficulty when the ques-
ton to be decided, balancing some
times on the slender edge of hair. Is
whether the son Of the house shall
enter business or study for some lib
eral avocation-for the law, or medi-
cine. or Journalism. IL the boy has
already chosen for himself, II he has a
decided preference for the ministry of
religion, or II his career. imperatiyely
reckoning. has secured its initiative
for army or navy at one of the great
schools. West Point or Annapolis, the
thing is practically arranged as to the
present. What Is to come hereafter
will depend largely on the stuff In the
boy. and, in lesser degree, on the oppor-
tunities he may meet after his prelim-
mary training is over.
The majority Of cases are not 80 cas-
lily and agreeably adjusted. Parents
see, or think they see. that their sons
have special fitness along certain lines;
the boys themselves are pulled another
way. Young men. brought up In plain
homes. with limited means. find beside
them, shoulder to shoulder In their col
lege life. other young men, equally gift
ed, equally ambitious. equally clean Of
life and pure OF aim. who have what
appears to the poorer ones a tremen-
dous advantage-plenty of money.
That II Is not necessarily the advan-
tage II seems does not occur to the Of
ten impecunious and always cramped
and Inconvenience student, who feels
day by day the clog Of an easily emp
tied pocketbook. His strong desire is
to plunge at once In medals res, In the
business world, TO make money, and
TO make II rapidly. Aghast at the years
of study required in the medical or the
law school, the lad declares against
what he regards as the folly Of delay
and disappoints the hopes Of the father
and mother who have always meant
him for a learned profession. He may
be right: they may be wrong. Who can
predict Only time can solve the Ques-
ton.
A boy Is meant by nature for a sci
entiAc student or for an artist. His
father, successful, shrewd, clever, has
no patience with the thoughtful inves-
tigator, no consideration for the dream
er OF dreams. Here is the golden chance
the boy opposite would covet and APP
preciate; II is lost on the poet, on the
student, on the man cut out for books
and quiet and a clustered existence.
Again, there ia friction In the home,
and puzzled faces frown round the
glowing hearth.
A counsel of prudence In these very
common crises is, Wait. Do not force
events. Leave something to divine
providence. Trust the boy whom you
have brought up, and guide. never seek
to drive him at that parting Of the
ways which most Of all is his personal
and vital eoncern.-Margaret u. Sang
ster, in Golfers Weekly.