Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-05
EDUCATED YOUTH.
His Vail Over the Difficulties in the
 Way to Success.

; HIS w all over the DiuculllSS III lAV
 Way to Success.
 Almost any evening at dinner time there may be seen n well known down town restaurant a group Of young men, who occupy always the same corner and spend a long time talking over their coffee and cigars. They are all college graduates of recent date, occupied in the day in getting start in life, or, as one of them, who IS engaged in some sort of literary work, more picturesquely puts it, 'bucking the metropolis with stub pen" Few have heard their talk, for when a stranger falls among them they are de- corously polite, but uncommunicative, in the. spirit of their leader. A few. however have been initiated, and de- scribe the conversations as "a series of carefully cultivated cynicisms, led by a lectuPe'' Thus do their guests become victims of phrase making.
 Ut would be hard to diagnose their complaint" said one of their victims; they are so cheerful in their woe. Nothing at present suits them, and they all pronounce their daNy tasks a bore. But they are not bothered with reform notions and don't make ! public fuss. I suspect they all cherish secret ambitions of winning common place successes, and swap their mel ancho1y epigrams because they have no other way at present to maintain that academic seclusiveness your col Iege graduate usually feels the lack of during the first years of his plunge into life However, there's some truth and humor in their talk that needn't be summarily dismissed as downy fac ed cynicism."
 And the speaker narrated as nearly as he could a speech of the leader on the subject of aHow to Be Successful Though Educated" The young man knocked his cigarette ash into the dregs of his coffee and said: five. thought this allsout as Devery does his brilliants. It'sBnot impromptn. I was burdened with the conception by too much paternal advice on how to suc- ceed. We get too much of that ad. vice on all hands. The path from the log cabin to the White House has been exploited and explained; we have been taught how to be happy though married. and it only remains to put the teaching into practice minor detail: magazines conducted by underpaid editors have told us how to get from home to col lege with a cow for capital; the lives of our captains of industry have been laid bare from their always humble be. ginnings, but the really useful work is the one not done. Who will tell us how to be successful though educated2
 ssThe worst that may be said of q college training (until the chair of sue cess is founded) is that it gives a young man ambitions. After all, the youth whose capital is COW in most instances prefers to keep his capital and milk it; the boy in the log cabin hopes some day to build a house with store shingles the young worker in the steel mill thinks he may in time rise to be foreman, and is content if he does. But the college graduate has ambitions. Nurtured in romance fed on history, filled with the keen rel ish for intellectual excitement and the power of intellectual mastery, he is yearly turned by the thousand into the hard world, with ambitions, but no job
 "There are open for him the law and medicine; but each requires three or four more years of training, and then an additional period of uffremunera- tive waiting. There is business, but al- ready the high school graduate has a four years start, which, when all is said, the classics and French literature do not help to overcome. He might write novels, but his taste is too good, while knowledge of art bars him from the drama. To be sure, there is teaching; the world still puts up with little education with its teachers. Yet, as women will teach cheaper than men, even that field is restricted It is no wonder that there are so many men of culture in the mines of Mexico and Alaska, or that so few of us col-- lege men marry before we are thirty
 Then some one asked this gloomy teacher of twenty-three, whose re, marks were greeted with no applause. but quiet approval said the outsider.
 what he proposed to do about it. His answer was characteristic. sTo-mor- row play golf he said '-New York Tribune.