The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-03-30
GAVE CAREER FOR WEALTH
FORTUNES MADE BY DELIBE-
 RaTELY ABANDONING WORK.

Buying on a Young Maehinist-Mak- l ing n Business Man of a Musician--
 flushing Il Song and Dance Man
 Brrbe Prompted by Professional JeaI-
 Ousy.
 1 A lawyer the other day hazarded the remark. says the Baltimore Herald, that there were more fortunes made by deliberately blighting ones hopes for a career than by carrying them out.
 | "Our firm drew up a contract recent lly," said he, ''by which young woman l was given one hundred thousand doi- lars outright to renounce vaudeville career of which she had made the be- l ginning of a great success. She had been married, having made a runaway match against her parents wishes
 From that time on her family disowned her, and though the husband was taken | i'll and the young couple were general Iy unfortunate, they were left to work it out alone as best they could, Final | ly, the daughter decided to go on the stage. She had unquestionably great talent. Her first appearance was an overwhelming success, and she received offers for engagements that promised her aff1uence compared with the pover- | ty she had been living in.
 Tt was now that the parents stepped forward with the long delayed offer of assistance. She had been advertised under the name she had borne in girl l hood, and it was undoubtedly this cir cumstance, rather than the, fact that | she was obliged to earn her liyng, that influenced her father and mother. To | see their proud name advertised upon the vaudeville billboards was too much for the old couple, and they made over to her the sum mentioned upon the con dition that she would retire at once and forever to private life. .5. .....
 This was, perhaps, less unfortunate than the case of a young man I knew of who had an absorbing passion for machinery. He had taken position in 1 a machine shop. and was never so hap py as when he was at work in his over 1 alls. His father encouraged him in his plan of becoming a practical machinist, and he would undoubtedly have made success in this line if it had not been for the interference of his mother.
 1 'The family had some considerable social position, but it was the mother who had most of the money From the first she seriously objected to the ap' l pearance of the young man when he Ecame to- and went from. the house in his working clothes, and she made it so l unpleasant for him that he finally had to give up staying at home entirely. Housed in a cheap boarding house, he l became tired himself of the life he had l picked out, and when his mother con- i stantly visited him, with protestations of affection, begging him to come home, l and offering him a large income if he | would study law, as she had hoped for him, he finally yielded. He has never l made any success as a lawyer, al though he has been in receipt of a con- l siderable income, and probably will be l all his life. -,,.~ s+.,~.eg 1 These incidents are only in line with l those few years ago of a young fellow ! who had great musical talents and a highly artistic temperament. He was I not without certain conscientious business faculty also, and this his fath- CT, who was a practical business man, the owner of brewery, was making the most of by putting him to work early. One day an organist of some note who had a good business clientele in the profession of music offered to give him musical training free of charge. He pointed out how even at the start with what knowledge of mu- sic he already possessed he could put him in the way of earning his living for the years that he was studying.
 ''It was now that the young mans father stepped in not only with a warn. ing as to the utter impotency of the
 musical career as a business, but with strict injunctions as to his duty in making something of himself as bus iness man. He also at this opportune time gave him increased responsibili
 ties and a substantial increase in sala- ry. The result is that now the man is overwhelmed with the responsibilities | Ul ct DuSliieSs, part OE WHICH ne mas Ill lherited and of all of which he has been made trustee. He has no time for the music that his soul loves, even as re
 creation, and it is the regret of his life
 that he did not take his opportunity
 when he had it. ,s .s-''', VI
 Another case was that of a family who had certain false standards ot what constituted useful position in life. One of the sons had made some thing of a career for himself in athlet- ics. He was not only good in his line to the extent that he could command a professional career, but he was vel
 known and liked and had good friends among people of his profession. Al such times, however, as he would re. turn home after periods of work, espe cially if he had been called upon to dc anything in business way upon Sun- day, he was met with a coldness and sanctimonious disapproval which be came unbearable. Finally his father offered him substantial reward and the promise of something better if he would stay at home and help him in his business. The result was that he set tied into business in which he was entirely without initiative, and among a class of men with whom he. did not either affiliate or make friends.