The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-07-15
YOUR BUSINESS WIFE
Stick to Her and Let the Affinity Idea Alone.
BY r. .. eRowN.

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 moth
ing about. A prominent mercantile
man, old In the business, had the no.
tion that he could make living writ
Ing stories. He stopped work and
started into the new line when he was
nifty. The result was that two years
later he was back at work with the
firm where he had held high posi-
tion for half the money.
| Every day you see pitiful examples
OF seemingly we'll balanced men de-
serting their old business mates to
elope with an affinity. They never
make better success of 1t than the
man who really elopes with a mate
rial 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 de-
serted 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 a man who
Isn't satisfied with what he's got when
It's good enough. The world is wise:
1t knows that as soon as a middle
aged man gets out of the prosperous
rut he had hewn for himself he is of
no more use than an apprentice In
the new line.
or course. with young men 1t is
different. A young man should
change until he finds just what he
wants. Some of them keep changing
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
everything.
what kind of an advertising agent
do you think Rockefeller would
make? Doubtless he would have
made a good one when he started
out, but now it's little too late.
Y
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 just their line, and
then the bug of unrest gets into them
and they want to get out CT 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
expensive than the other
There Is sort of microbe fitting
about that does lot o. damage. II
is that germ which causes men to
run away with affinities, 1t is that
bug that makes a man throw away
gold to go after copper. 1t is Just
disease; no doctor can cure it, but a
little reason will kill it.
A man until recently exchange edi-
tor 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 a
mans head, and failure often brings
the same result. 1t is only these men
who get tired of the regular thing
and jump into something they know
nothing about.
George AIDE has turned farmer, but
1t Is noticeable that he still makes his
living from writing.
A man can have as many avoca-
tlons as he wishes, but for vocations
ne can have but one. It's a good
thing to pride yourself on some little
accomplishment YOU have picked up:
1t is nice to be able to think that pos
sibly you might have been as great a
singer as Nordica il you hadn't start
ed out as brick salesman, but al |
ways remember that you are a brick |
salesman and that Won arc woddad +o
bricks.
III 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
afiinity-poetry-but keep busy with
your old job.-The Merchants Jour
nal.
A Frozen Law.