The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1902-03-29
PERFECT WORK.

The dOer OF perfect work IS one
who rises to the top of affairs as sure
ly as cream does on pan of milk.
That is, if he keeps at it, and doesn't
mix up Incidence and bad habits with
his vocation.
According to Holy Writ, perfection
was one of the first requirements of
life. A good name is a priceless pos
session, it is better than riches, and
helps one to prosper in his under
takings.
There is increasing demand for per-
feet workers. Modern inventions call
for practiced hands to use them. From
the man who blacks your boots to the
one who breaches your sermons, you
ask and expect perfection. Nothing
short of it gives satisfaction. The
cry goes up from every branch of
business, 1--WE can't find good help"
Much of the farmer corn is standing
unhusked and they give as reason
for it that no help can be found, and
the farmer himself can not take care
of all the stock and poultry, milk the
COWS, take the milk to the station,
thresh, butcher, chop wood and all
the other chores about the house and
barn that are expected of him. There
is a limit to the greatest capacity.
They will tell of many experiences
they have had in efforts to get their
corn husked. How they have set diff
ferent men in the fields to husk, with
the promise from them of a months
or a winters work, and probably in
an hours time, or next day. or next
week, they will disappear and be seen
no more. A broken promise is an
everyday occurrence, but it stamps
the individual with incompetency.
One whose word can not be relied on
is not fit to be trusted anywhere.
1t is not only the farmers who COM
plain, but city proprietors of different
branches of business testify to the
same thing. It is not good and per-
feet work that the average employe
aims at so much as to kill time and
get money. Where there is one who
works because the world needs his
best services, and who makes his en-
ployer's interest his own and does
his best for him. as he would for him
self, is one who rises in the estima-
ton of every one of sound mind and
understanding. He is a man that
will not be without employment and
never be found begging. When we
see people prosperous and happy and
rich, we often think what lucky peo-
pie they are, and we wish our dish
would happen to be out when it rain
ed porridge; but in most cases luck
has nothing to do with it. 1t was
hard work, and knowing how to work,
and willingness to deny self and
peg away at it that has made friends
and fortune for the so-called lucky
one.
He has gone through hard places
and loss of sleep has submitted to
the jeers of his enemies and the sneers
of those who would like to get hand
on his wealth if they could but it all
passes him by as the idle wind. Great
souls are not easily downed their
principles have touched rock bottom,
and there they stand examples for
others to follow.
If there is one thing more than an
other that should be bred into the
marrow of child's bones it is that
he must get his money honestly.
That he must not accept more pay
for his labor than it is worth. If he
is employed to do piece of work he
must do that work as skilfully as pos
sible. If he has had no practice or
training in his undertaking, then he
must content himself with little or no
pay until he has learned how and
can do perfect work. No other way
is honest.
The dressmaker who cuts and
slashes and spoils your dress, and
wastes your material, and yet charges
as much for it as one who cuts econo-
mically, and fits perfectly and COM
fortably, is robber, and she has no
reason to expect continued patronage.
In employing workmen and women
one wants to feel that the work will
be we'll done when it is done, and
people are willing to pay more than
common prices for this pleasant as
surance. There is always demand
for high-grade skill.
A locomotive engine could not be
run by an unframed hand, no one
would trust the expensive implement
to such risk; neither can housekeep-
ing be engineered by green hands,
and the young man who finds he has
married one whose chief mission has
been to spend money rather than in
learning her trade of home making,
must come to feel that his establish
ment is in as great danger of wreck
age as the railroad train in inexperi-
enced hands.
Money that is paid for poor work
ers is often worse than thrown away,
for another set must be employed to
rectify their mistakes, and sometimes
they are beyond amends. How the
young people stand in their own light
when they slight their work, and
make getting done with it more OF an
object than doing it we'll. If they
would try as hard to excel in useful
employments, in bread winning ac-
tivities, as they do to carry off the
honors at foot ball games and sports
generally, it would lift them to high
er plane than ever the field of amuse-
ments can.
The young people, however, must
not be censured too severely, for it is
mostly the parents fault that they do
no better. In their desire to make
things pleasant and agreeable for