The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-01

ing an autopsy, I thought l had reached
the summit of human happiness.
However, there is something more than
mere desire that enables the young man to
pursue the more or less thorny paths or
medicine and surgery. To one who is de-
Sirous of being a doctor | would say: DO
not attempt to fulfill your desire unless
you have sufficient money or personal In
fluence to enable you to tide over the first
year or two which follows the hanging out
of your sign. The process of building up a
practice is always a tedious one. On the
other hand, there is always room at the
top. The possibilities OF medicine ana
surgery are of SO ilimitable nature that
the young practitioner may indulge his
learning to the utmost.
The profession of teaching is considered
as one of the most poorly. paid, but there
is an impalpable reward for a successful
instructor with which the coarse dollar
cannot compare. The consciousness that
he has given his pupil something that will
make his home brighter, ms Ia lle1 1ner
his life happier. brings with it anSupiift of
heart which is of more value to him than
many times the amount OF his salary.
The realization that the pupil feels that
something OF worth mas touched MN,
that his ambition has been aroused, is
payment, indeed 'What is money" IS
asked, compared with the conscious n ess
that you have opened a little wider me
door of some narrow life, that you nave
let in the light 2;of opportunity, nave
shown the boy or girl that there is some
thing in existence worth striving for?
What is salary compared with the thought
that you have made the dull boy reel per
haps for the first time, that there is pos
sible success for him, that he is not quite
the Ounce he has been taught to believe
himself? %<>
No careIessness.
s'The truth sould be recognized by all
youth that whatever ones calling is to be,
there must be a certain aptitude for 1T. To
oil ha hlIC n
goods 1t is very common for young peo-
pie to think that almost any one can keep
store" Yet, to attain the highest success
in selling goods man or woman must
have a quick insight into the buyers need
This insight comes with the use OF tact. A
stranger who is made to believe that you
really desire to aid him IN the way
he wants TO be aided IS syouf sfflend. "A
will give you a glinapse@of the cutomer
purposes desires, tastes, and even the
limitations of his or her means Ihere
will be no resentment OF this lndlrect as
sistanee Very often buyers express thanks
to the salesman who. with tact ana grace
has discovered what they want, when they
have hardly known themselves. Such eX-
neriences make for the establishment lne-
long patrons; such salespeople are the
noainstay of the retail mercantile estab-
lishment. --...s -.s-
carelessly undertakes to do TINS or 10 90
begin life by making failure
Rules for Success.
AS will be observed, the greater part Of
Mr.. Marden's book on the young man en-
tering business concerns the difficulties.
What, then, is expected or a young man
who shall enter business. with an idea. or
success? some of the advice is as follows
A sound character should first of all
understand itself; Do not Just get. along.
This is a. confession of stagration. Mere
" holding ones own, or making, a bare
living is not making life, The 90 only "
place man can ornament, the only one IN
which he can do himself credit, is the one
he conquers. the position he masters by
the force of his character, that to which
he has attained by his own persistent Ell
Do not talk or think of limitations. The
world takes us at our own Yaiuatlon. IL
believes in the man who believes In MN
self
Energy is capital. Do not waste it.
The most difficult human disease to cure