The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-04-11
PERFECT WORK.

rises to the top of affairs as surely 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 priceless pos
session, it is better than riches, and
help one to prosper in his undertake
ings.
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 expert perfection. Nothing
short of it gives satisfaction. The
cry goes up from every branch OF
business, "We cant find good help
Much of the farmers corn is standing
unhuskcd and they give rs a reason
for it that no help can he found, and
the farmer himself can not take care
of all the stock and poultry. milk the
cows, take Tie inl.n to III" station,
tnresh, butcher, chop wood and all the
other chores about the house and barn
that are expected of him. There is
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 different
men in the fields to husk, with the
promise from them of months or
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 every
day occurrence, but it stamps the in
dividual with ncompetency. One
whose word can not be relied on is not
| fit to be trusted anywhere.
1t is not only tie farmers who COM
plain, but city proprietors of different
brancl es of business testify to the
same thing. 1t is not good and per-
feet work that tue 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 employers
| interests his own and does his best
for him, as Lc would for himself, is one
who rises in the estimation of every
one OF sound mind and understanding.
| He is 4 man that will not be without
employment and never be found beg
ging. When We see people prosper
Gus and happy and rich, we often
think what lucky people they are, and
we wish our dish would happen to be
out when it rained porridgc; but in
most cases luck has nothing to do
with it. 1t was hard work, and know
ing how to work, AMI a willingness to
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deny self and peg away at it that has
made friends and fortune Tor the SO call
ed lucky one.
He has gone through hard places
and loss of sleep; has submitted to the
jeers of lis enemies and sneers ofthose
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 princi-
piles 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 mo the
marrow of a 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 en-
ploycd to do piece Of work he must
do that work as skilfully as possible.
If he has had no practice or training
in his undertaking, then he must con-
tent himself with little or pay until he
has learned how and can do perfect
work. No other way is honest.
The dressnakcr 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
fortab!y, is robber, snd 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 Tor
a 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 housekeeping DC
engineered hy 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 establishment is in as
great danger of wrecSagc as the rail
road train in inexperienced hands.
Money that is paid for poor work
crs 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
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