The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-07-20

The shortaey OF good drug clerks iD Vel
mont reported by the state board Of phar
mscy is oAly the manifestation In a new
field Of the latter.day tendency OF the over
c4ger youth Of the land to grab the lmmtd
late dollar, regardless Of the earning posi-
blllties that the future night develop fol
them II hey only would be content to dc
vote few Of their early years TO hare
work and study, at small pay, SO as to com
msnd some substantially remunerativt
trade or calling in their mature manhood
While there !, much wisdom In the ancient
maxim that"a bird In the hand Ia worth two
in the BUSH" 1t phould be applied with
common sense, like every other precept,
There are interests in which every dictate
Of prudence declares for the two fowls In
the bush, and this matter OF choice OF oc-
equations by young men is one of them.
la former times, the well balanced youth
ing n trsde or a business, to do all the hard
aud irlscme work that Ia proverbially
shitked oil on to apprentices and beginners,
and all for a comparatively meagre COM
pgnsation that mu3t occasion great self
d NAL to maintain him 10 clothes and board,
even. say nothing Of pleasures. But he did
1t in the reasturing owledge that, when
his period Of probation Was over, he was to
be admitted to mans estate In a profit
able pursuit the gains Of which were likely
to be more or less what he himself 5y his
own industry and akill could make them
for the remainder Of his busy life. IN otd-
er words be was not tempted into some
clei kship because the work appeared to be
easy and to accept his maximum income In
his youth because 1t sppealoi large to bis
boyish eyes then, only to i1d In after years
that In so doing he had gone to the end OF
his rope and il had been short one at
that.
But that Ia just Whist too many boys are
doing today. The pace Is fast. Young msn
dress better, live higher, have more preten-
tious pleasures and pay out. more money
for them, than most Of our sfandfatbers
DID even after they came to be able to spend
their money for tuch things. TIE spirit OF
the times Ia breezy and brilliant, so far as
the youth OF the country pc axe Of it, and
the temptation to the average young man
to keep stop with the fastest Of his spe dy
companions lie seductive, inde,d, all the
more so, IN fact, because be cannot fall to
see that is elders are doing pretty much
the same tbing.
And so, with such exsiavagant tastes ar
ideally induced and cultivated at tender
age, the first economic problem that con-
fronts Young man lie, strangely enough,
the exact counterpart OF what is destined
to be the last one to worry him, also, ard
that is, "more money! He must have a
leady purse II he is to live the life that
furges all about him, be must have dollars
TO spent for fun where bis grandfather and
even his father bad only copper pennies or
bank tokens to spend for necessities. He
must take the bird in hand and let the two
IN the bush ay where they win, tina. is, be
thinks be must. And he does, only to find
that to mix two old sayings up together In
q lind OF Irish bull, the bnd In hand that
be s,iz . and Llls turns ont TO be the goose
tina, lays be golden eggs. He discounts
hls future. lie takes some cheap Job that
looks inyiiiug and permits bin to wear
goo clothes snd that pays as much money
ss he wants at the timo, only TO fnd 10
years 10 come that that JOB does not lead
to anything bitter, that he Ia stuck at
forty fgc ut tie sfms old desk and At
practically ,be sane old psy that be was
getting AZ twenfy fige.
Parents are Ia urslly ambitious that
their foss shall eI, ,el ID some distinguished
sphere Of life, bus they will do the boys
more good II they consusin them enly to
REMEMBER hat they. can better afford
10 walt avii'e Tor money 10 their
outh than they can b. sllhcu. II 10 their |
nAture nah %. AID thfy will also do |
well 10 teso,. ID IL b)ys that, whatever the
apparent enilesIaepts Of az fii,e clerkshlp
,r some similar occupation that gives 3
;oa.h neat And tijy work at cesk, per-
Mrs bin 10 dfess well, gives him gener-
,us bours Of liberty, and stars him with
pore pay than ia given the apprentice to
trade or beginner Ia business, the
World ls constantly crying for moe good
riiskns and craftsmen, more Ieyel.headsd,
merchants aud business nen.