The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1902-09-06
Perfect work.
Mary sydney, in Farm Journal.

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 possession, it is
better than riches, and helps one to pros.
per in his undertakings.
There is increasing demand for perfect
workers. Modern inventions call for prac-
ticed 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 sat
isfaction. The cry goes up from every
branch of business, eve can't find good
help. Much of the farmers corn is
standing unhusked and they give as rea-
son for il 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 limit to the greatest ca
pacity. They win 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 a months or winter 8 work, and
probably in an hours time, or next day,
or next week, they win disappear and be
seen no more. A broken promise is an
everyday occurrence, but it stamps the in
dividual with incompetency. One whose
word can not be relied on is not fit to be
trusted anywhere.
1t is not only the farmers who complain,
but city proprietors Of different branches
of business testify to the same thing. It
is not good and perfect work that the aver
age employee aims at so much as to kill
time and get money When there is one
who works because the world needs his best
services, and who makes his employer S
interest his own and does his best for him,
as he would for himself, is one who rises
in the estimation of every one of sound
mind and understanding. He is 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 people they are,
and we wish our dish would happen to be
out when it rained 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 exam
pies for others to follow
IF there is one thing more than another
that should be bred into the marrow of a
child bones it is that he must get his
money honestly. That he must not ac-
cept 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 possible.
If ne 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 ma
terial, and yet charges as much for it as
one who cuts economically, and fits per-
fectly and comfortably, is robber, and
she has no reason to expect continued pa
tronage. In employing workmen and
women one wants to feel that the work will
be well done when it is done, and people
are willing to pay more than common prices
for this pleasant assurance. There is al
ways 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 housekeeping 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 establishment is in as
great danger of wreckage as the railroad
train in inexperienced hands.
Money that is paid for poor workers is
often worse than thrown away, for another
set must be employed to rectify their mis-
takes, 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 well. IF they
would try as hard to excel in useful en-
ployment, in bread winning activities, as
they do to carry off the honors at foot ball
games and sports generally, it would lift
them to higher plane than ever the field
of amusements 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 them, they neglect to qualify
them for permanent success and comfort
Many parents endure untold hardships for
the sake of furnishing the needful to pol
ish and spoil their children
IF child has enough grit, it doesn'
take great sums of money to lift him above
the level. | once knew little girl, and
she was what the world would call a poor
little girl, who had little chance to learn
either books or work
She was bright child, and took notice
how others of her age went to school, and
dressed better, and had enjoyments Of
many kinds she could not have because Of
her humble environments She made uI
her mind while yet young that she would
not always be an underling; she would dc
something or some how get fuller enjoy
ment of the good things of life. She coulc
take the advice of the prophet and ''learr
to do well, . and begin right there at home
to do with all her might whatever she founc
to do. Was room to be swept, potato
pared or a stocking darned, it was done il
way that no one could complain of. Sh,
could not be spared to go to school mucl
of the year, but she could find some leisure
to read and study grammar and history an(
improve herself generally.
The neighbors began to observe wha
a superior child she was, and as she ad
vanced in years she was asked to join Lit
erary societies, and help in church socia