The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1908-08-01
YOUR BUSINESS WIFE.

A mans business wife is the ont
line in which he started when he wa:
young and grew up with. A mar
should be as closely welded to the
line that pays for his bread and but
ter as to his lawful wife.
Have pastime take up golf or
tiddledy winks, but don't go into an
other business that you know nothing
about. A appointment mercantile man,
old in the business, had the notion
that he could make living writing
stories. He stopped work and start
ed into the new line when he was fif-
ty. The result was that two years
later he was back at work with the
firm where he had held a high posi-
ton for half the money.
Every day you see pitiful examples
of seemingly well balanced men de-
serting their old business mates I'd
elope with an affinity They nevef
make better success of it than the
man who really elopes with materi-
al affinity.
BY holding your nose to the grind
stone whatever the grindstone may
be-you are at least certain OF a liv-
ing. By chasing a will'o-the-wisp
you are sure of nothing but disap-
pointment.
1t is fact that Mark Twain desert
ed the occupation of pilot for that of
writer, and now makes more money
than he would if he had stuck to the
old job. But the Civil War came
along and threw Mark out of a job,
SO he had to shift into something
new-and we are not all Mark Twains.
The world laughs at man who
isn't satisfied with what he's got
when it's good enough. The world
is wise; it knows that as soon as a
middle.aged man gets out of the pros
porous rut he had hewn for himself
he is of no more use than an appren-
tice in the new line.
Of course, with young men it is
different. A young man should
change until he finds just what he
wants. Some of them keep chang
ing all their lives and never find what
they are looking for. But when the
beginner does find what he wants he
can realize success only by initiating
the burr and sticking in spite of every
thing.
What kind of an advertising agent
d o you think Rockefeller would
make? Doubtless he would have
made good one when he started out,
but now it's little too late.
You can't tell man who has made
good in one business that he can't
make good in another. Luck shoves
many men into them and they want
to get out of probably the only line
there is out of which they can make
money.
You pay too high alimony when you
elope with business affinity. and
then usually the new mate is more
about that does ::s.s fof s's, 81 damage. II
is that germ which causes men to run
with afinities, it is that bug that
makes man throw away gold to go
after copper. 1t is just disease 10
doctor can cure it, but little reason
will kill it.
A man until recently exchange ed
itor on one of Chicago's papers, had
some time before deserted his wife
the practice of medicine-and run off
with the affinity of newspaper work.
The other day he realized his mistake,
as they all do, and returned to his
first sweetheart; the result is that
now he is head surgeon at one of the
largest hospitals in the city.
Glue that won't stick is of no use,
man that won't stick is of no use to
himself. Success turns many mans
head, and failure often brings the
same result. It is only these men
who get tired of the regular thing and
jump into something they know moth
ing about.
George Ade has turned farmer, but
it is noticeable that he still makes his
living from writing.
A man can have as many avocations
as he wishes, but for vocations he can
have bnt one. It's a good thing to
pride yourself on some little accom-
plishment you have picked up; it is
nice to be able to think that possibly
you might have been as great sing
er as Nordica if you hadn't started
out as brick salesman, but always
remember that you are brick sales
man and that you are welded to
bricks.
If your friends think the ''pomes"
you do in your trivial moments are
great, don't deceive them and don't
let them deceive you; just stick to
your business of making shoeblack-
ing, look through the window at your
affinity-poetry- keep busy with