Milford chronicle., 1905-05-19

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That is not enough. To be willing is
not necessarily to be capable. What
can you dO?"
The Wheel of Fortune.
The wheel of fortune turns. The
daughters, brought up in luxury, have
to go out and make living. Can you
cook? Are you an expert stenogra-
pher? Have you papers which signify
that you are a well trained nurse or
schOolteacher or dressmaker? Are
you enough Of an authority on French
to become translator, or are you
! proofreader, a master hand as a mu-
sician or a capable artist? The ques-
tiOns which face you, o woman, are
these: What can you do thoroughly and
well? On what subject can you speak
as an Al authority?" Half built towers
are uninhabitable houses. Half built |
ships are absolutely useless to brave |
the tOrnadoes of the Atlantic ocean.
What can You do? What can you do?
What one thing can you do as well as
if not better than any one else?
But the half built educational tow
ers are not to be condemned nearly as
much as the deserted, half built enter
prises of life which we see everywhere
around us. 1t was only here and there
that man or woman in the past had
an opportunity to get a complete edu-
cation. The higher schools Of our ia
theirs and mothers were few and far
between. Besides that, even if there
were fine schools in the past all chill
dren were not able to go to them. Per
haps you were like my grandfather.
He was the oldest of large family of
children. He had to stay at home and
help work the farm that the younger
members of the family might have
enough bread to eat and enough cloth /,
ing to wear. Thus the only education
you received outside of the three "R's'
was out Of the University Of Hard
Knocks" But in spite of this handicap. :
my friend, you have a good mind, a :
good body and you have had a good >
many Of the essential capabilities Of =
success. Now, why have you been -
uch failure? Why is your life in its l.,
lselessness to be llkened unto that half :
'uilt tower which PLATE, the governor, =
rected and toward which Christ point =,
d when he spoke the words of my =
ext? l will tell the reason. You went =
o work and worked hard. You de- =
elOped yourself along one line. You =
lid your foundations; you partly COM ~
leted your walls, but just when you ~
ere about to complete your work and N,
In success you deserted the line Of -, ~
ork you were following and went to o.
g in some other field to build another a.
nd Of tower. ~ ne
Did Not stick to II. 40
Is not this emphatically true with or
u in business? What are you doing III
day? "Oh," you answer, 81 am in the We
lining business. Some of my friends fro
ID myself have a dozen claims up in w,
e new gold fields. 1 am bound soon to 20,
rich. There is no doubt about It. nj,
e are within a quarter of a mile Of all
e mine where they have taken out of
ooo'oCO IN one year we are on the dea
me vein or line of ore. We are bound soc
get rich. Will you take some stock Che
our mine? You can get rich too" mo
, l thank you. In the first place, / TOW
7e no money to invest; in the sec oro
!, If l had 1 would not invest it hoo
your mine. You are almost certain rrbo
ui"Ae Idiiure out OF II. II there Is and
gold there, then, of course, you can inb,
get blood out Of a turnip." If
re is any gold there you will let go Ri
1t before you develop that mine this
perly. Some one else will get the as
fits How do I know? Why, that won
been your record for twenty-five Of Y
rs. In the last quarter of a century now
have dabbled in at least ten differ littI,
businesses at any one OF which you pric,
Id have made a success if you had tbe
stuck to it, For five years you dane
ked ranch or a farm After those look,
years you said: There is no need a m,
le burying my talents hee. 1 must liken
out into some other business where NOT ,
make some money" You got out. lam
: Is 1t with the man who bought that
place? He has made a success on nerf,
farm because he put his brains Then
it and developed it and ran it briel
the lines it could pay. After you resor
the farm you went into the real VVba7
e business. Then what was the now
er? oh you say, there was no ewes
" in the real estate business. 1 abou-
ut Of that very soon" Fang
:, you speak the truth. There was ond ,
lolieS ~ 'ne real estate business her ol
7Ou. You are sure of making a she NJ
re at everything But there was tbe m