The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-24
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Official Paper Of the City and County
"nARD WORK a PLEASURE

tail store in Chicago, the largest Of
Its kind in the world. 1t was the
opening day of S. f. Selfridge & Co.'S.
new store a few blocks south of the
Field establishment, Mr.. Selfridge
having concluded to go into business
on his own account, though in so do
ing he relinquished a princc!y salary.
But let the Chicago Record-Herald
| tell it:
"Do you count on working right
without Il vacation, or do you expect
Geneva some of the time to relieve
the monotony?'
"There will be no vacation for HE
for Il long time to GOMEZ replied Mr..
Selfridge. "To me business is not
%monotonous. Work is a pleasure. |
might add that work accompanied by
visible progress is the greatest ioy one
can experience. Work that shows re-
sults-the results we are striving for
cannot be anything but a delight.
The work will be hard, l know, but [
count on daily results. | count on
seeing u business grow, and that
will be gratifying in the extreme"
Mr.. Seltridge spoke earnestly. The
ambition he feels shone from his eyes.
His mien bespoke the enterprislng, en-
perlenced Chicago merchant who at
lacks a new problem with keen IN
terest and the firm conviction that
victory can be gained by abiding by a
carefully laid business plan.
Here is a man who has been IN the
daily grind of retail merchandising
since his boyhood; a nan with money
enough to head one of the finest
establishments in Chicago-which
means in the world; past middle age
and able to retire and live in luxur-
ious ease all his life. Why doesn't he
do 1T? Because ''work accompanied
by visible progress is the greatest 10y
one can experience" All the Rookie.
Teller millions cannot equal the de-
light which hard work gives a
man of such q character. People mar
vel sometimes at the persistence with
which the average American business
man in the large cities seemingly pur.
sues the almighty dollar" 1t isn't
the dollars they are after, but the sue.
cess that comes from the undertaking.
1t has probably been Mr.. Selfridge's
desire all his life to own an establish.
ment like the n he has helped build
for Marshall Field. The fact that he
wac sharing in the profits of it and
making perhaps more money than he
will ever make again again could not
satisfy an ambition that can only be
satisfied up striving for greater
things.
"There will be no vacation for me
for a long time" What a contrast
with the idle worthless Youth all over
the land, spending their days-the
very best days of their lives-in loll.
ing about summer resorts, dancing at
tendance on love-slck, a%dle-pated
females and with but one absorbing
desire: to get all the money they can
without doing a stroke of work or de.
nyinR themselves a pleasure.
The young man who frets at times
because steady persistent work is nee.
essary to bring his daily bread can
take much comfort in studying the
life of a ma like Mr.. Selfridge; and
whether he car draw a satisfactory
comparison or not, the fact will some
day come home to him that money
itself does not bring happiness, and
that no success in life brings the same
pleasure as being able to do a hard
days work, eat three square meals a
day and rest in blessed sleep.