The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-08-11

utaIou Ql lLt ANttAEf young LLaA w
woman Of today
Let as take the average young man
on commencement day College or
school days are over. The foundations
Of the educational towers have been
laid Young man. what can you dor
asks the hard headed world Are you
an expert In any one line are you a
capable mining engineer Are you n
first class advertising aecnti Can you
Fl eoodsf Are you al authority as a
real estate mani What can you dor
Nothing" says the young man. Il
am willing 70 do anything but ] do not
know q trade have not become pro-
dcient IN any one line of WORK. But !
am willing 70 do what an told % 40 '
That Is not enough. To be willing Is
not necessarily 10 be capable. What
can you doi"
The wheel Of fortune turns The
daughters. brought up in luxury have
70 20 out and make a living Can You
cook2 are you an expert steuogra-
nhcri Have you papers which signify
/ hat you are q well trained nurse or
| schOolteacher or dressmakcr: Are
you enough Of an authority on French
| 70 become a translator. or are y0u a
proofreader. a master hand as mu-
sician OF a capable artisti The ques-
tons which face you. o woman, are
.hese what can you do thoroughly and
welf On what subject can you speak
as an Al authority Han built towers
are uninhabitable houses Half built
ships are absolutely useless 70 brave
the tornndOes Of the Atlantic ocean.
What can you dof What cen you doi
What one thing can you do as well as
| II not better than any one elsei
But the half built educational tow
ers are not 10 be condemned nearly as
! much as the deserted hail built enter
prises Of life which we see everywhere
around us. II was only here and there
| hat a man OF woman ia the past had
| an opportunity 70 get n complete edu-
| cation The higher schools on our IA
| Tiers and mothers were few and iar
between Besides that. even II there
were fine schools 10 the past ali chill
dren were not able 20 20 20 them Per
haps you were Ike my grandfather
| lie was the oldest Of large family Of
/ children he had 70 stay az home and
/ help work the farm dat the younger
members Of the family might have
enough bread 70 eat aud enough cloth
ing 20 wear Thus the only education
you received outside Of the three RS
/ was out Of the University Of Hard
! Knocks" But ln spite OF this handicap
| my friend. you have good mind. a
good body and you have had good
many Of the essential capabilities OF
success. Now. why have You been
such "a failurel Why is your life In us
usolessness 70 be ikened unto that half
! built tower which PLATE, the governor
erected aud toward which Christ point
Cd when he spoke the words OF my
texti viii tell the reason. You went
70 work and worked hard You de-
| veloped yourself along ono line. You
laid vour foundations: yon partly com
pleted your walls. but just when you
were about 70 complete your work and
win success you deserted the line Of
work ron were following and went 70
dig in some other field 20 build another
kind of tower.
Il not this emnhatically true with
you IN business What ore you doing
todayi "Oh," you answer, 4 am In The
/ mining business Some Of my friends
and myself have a dozen claims up In
the new gold fields. ] am bound soon to
he rich. There Is no doubt about IL
We are within a quarter Of q mile OF
ono mine where they have taken ont
100000 IN one year We ore on the
same vein or line Of ore We are bound
70 get rich. VIII you take some stocR
IN our miner You can get rich too
| No. I thank YOU In the first place.
have no money 70 invest, in the see
ond. II I had 7 would not invest II
In your mine You are almost certain
10 make failure out Of IL II there is
no gold there. then. Of course. you can
not get blood out Of a turnip." II
there is any gold there You viii Jet 90
OF IL before you develop that mine
properly. Some ene else viii get the
! nroffs How do I knOwI Why, that
has been your record for twenty-five
years. In the last quarter Of century
You have dahhled In NJ least ten differ
| ent businesses. az any one Of which you
| could have made n success n You had
! only stuck 20 H. For FIVE years you
worked a ranch OF farm. After those
Eve years you said: There Is no need
OF me hury.ng my talents here. must
get ont into some other business where
I can make some money" You GOT out
How is il with the man who bought
your placer He has made a success on
your farm because De put his brains
into il and developed Il and ran II
along the lines Il could pay After you
left the farm you went into the real
estate business. Then what WAS the
natter "Oh. you say. there was no
money in the real estate business.
got out Of that very soon
Yes, you speak the truth. There was
no money In the real estate business
FOR yon. You are sure Of making q
failure ~ everything But there was
money and there Is money IN the rea
estate business for the man who tool
your offices. lie had no more capita.
70 start with than you had, but he
aung on until az last the financial tide
turned his way. Today he Is one Of the
wealthy men Of this city. Then you
failed rs g life insurance agent Next
you failed as q book publisher. Then
you failed as n commercial traveller
You have failed AZ everything you
/ touched. Yet men no hrainier than
you who followed you have made sue
cesses IN every one Of these lines You
dug your foundations. you erected one
fourth. one-half. two-thirds. three