The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-08-03
GOOD B COUNT.

life for the young man from tne
country are many, but If the
home training has been properly
given, the parents need have but
little anxiety about their boys
who may seek employment in the
large city. A boy with brains
and pluck will succeed anywhere.
Parents should not forget that
those who employ labor in the
metropolis districts insist upon
temperate workers. Upon rail-
roads, in factories, stores, ma
chine shops and offices only tenn
perate persons are tolerated and
the Incorporate youth soon finds
his place taken by a sober one.
Every day, every year we find
our young men and women TAX
ing positions for which they are
not fitted. There are plenty of
misfits in this busy world simply
because the individual does not
do his or her own thinking. Ex-
perience often demonstrates what
the individual is best fitted for
and it may take some little time
before the young man or woman
finds the right road to travel.
However it is much easier to fol-
TOW the road of life if the indi-
vidual will do a little straight
thinking on his or her own ac-
count.
Many things are to be consid-
cred carefully. Natural fitness
and naturalization are impor-
tant elements. The advice of
parents ..should be considered.
But in all walks of life, no matter
how humble the pursuit may be,
the foundation of success is en-
bedded in good habits. Clean
living, right thinking and plenty
of action are the key notes look
ing toward the rounding out Of a
useful:happy life.
THE IMPRESSIONS OF CHILDHOOD.
Childhood's happiest stage of life, g
Free from care and free from strife.
When q child we remember
having two Glands, kind hands,
placed upon our heads and hear
ing the above lines repeated to US
by a gentleman who seemed to be
very unhappy-we half started in
surprise, for we had looked for
ward to kmaturity, as the period
when our various trials would be
ended ,:fwhen we could do as we
pleasedEwithout reproof. Such
were thoughts at the time, but
after a romp, when we went into
the parlor:where mother had COM
pany, the idea of being obliged to
sit up straight in . chair and do
no thing but talk the whole after
noon, made manhood seem a very
unfortunateSstate. And too, we
remember, how our father was q
slave to the..unceasing duties of
his business. When we leave
childhood in the distance and be-
come absorbed in:the busy game
of life with it's pleasures aud cares
we are apt to look back upon our
earl test impression, with a laugh
at their simplicity. In remem-
bering how VIC were generally
treated by those under whose
care we fell tat different periods,
some knowledge of gthe world is
open to us. The only use such
acknowledgements is to put away
faults that cause unhappiness,
and in our intercourse with child
rem never to excite the evil feel
ings which we're carelessly tam.
pered Within our own case. The
circumstances which occur il
childhood exerts a powerful in
fluence. Through life, the dreams
of early days linger unconscious.
ly around us-well would it be l.
they always chung to US. with
softening powers; if to turn bacl
We're only to remember the mil;
yet steadfast eyes, that lit us for
wardin our needless path. Their,
is little fear of loving a child to,
much or manifesting too much at
fection. Who that in childhood
has had the fearful eye of a loving
mother bent for a moment re-
proachfully upon him, then 81
lently averted can forget it? Ii