The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-07-15

truth when say that what you have
learned at college would not be worth
ten dollars q month In this store. You
now need to learn how TO make a liv-
ing. 1t takes q long time to get q
cash dividend on such an education"
Then Young Ambition fell from his
little ladder. He went his way sor-
rowful and indignant to find his sup
posed riches were held 20 cheap by ono
whose opinion he held 90 high. He
felt cheated and defrauded: his heart
was full Of bitterness against the
dearly bought education that had not
educated. Yet he was not cast down
for long, for he found that there were
other things besides clerking in r.
store, which a college graduate might
do to earn u living, and more.
How many high school graduates
have felt tho same iron enter their
souls when first realizing their utter
unpreparedness for the particular thing
they most wished to do! Perhaps you.
too, II you have lately taken strict
account of stock. realize that every day
Is a fresh beginning, and each Monday
another Commencement Day" with It's
own insistent life problems which you
must solve alone.
1t is the same whether you are just
starting in business or have been
hard worker for years. II failure,
you chose to do the wrong thing, or
tried to do 1t in wrong way. Ihere
are so many wrong ways. II a sue
cess. YOU wish and toll for even greater
success.
Ii for any reason. health. climate,
ambition, conscience. or what not, you
wish to change your location, your
business, or In any other way wish 10
-
such self examination of great value
10 you, regardless OF age.N success,
failure or previous condition Of mental
or financial seryitude. Take your &C
count Of stock.
Can you-whoever you are-~men or
woman. rich or poor, can you af1ord
to undertake any WORK, continue any
business, or voluntarily remain unaer
any conditions of living in which the
best in you could not be developed?
DO YOU not owe the very best that
r. IN YOU 10 TY1ankfnd- can you BE
really honest even with yourself, IN
less you at least try TO pay all your
Just Indebtedness? Yes. / know. We
all try to avoid that question But
car you OF Goarse. tAat is a Far'iA ats
question, to be answered only to your
self, and then. perhaps, not while you
are looking into your own eyes III
mirror. That might be difficult Hon
est" is a word few people care TO
analyze too closely. Yet IL belongs III
your account OF stock, or 1t does not
And, by the way. there Is no such com
parison as Honest, more honest. most
honest Honest" is a positive, den
mite, clearcut, exhaustive term, and
we must be either honest-~or dishon-
est
That is worth considering when
, aking your account of stock and
trying to schedule your real assets
YOUR own Individual. exclusive pos
sessions which make you just what
you are, and determine just what You
can do. Why is 1t SO important :
Simply because your account OF stock
is for your own private. personal use,
and you gain nothing at all, but may
lose a great deal. II YOU consciously
or unconsciousiy deceive yourself,
So, then. let US assume that you
have been both discriminating and
correct in listing your powers of body,
mind and soul. and that you have
definitely decided what you would
most like TO do with them.
Bat In these private considerations
IT lis we'll 10 remember old Davy
t,rorhetts adrtre, f5e sure you are
right. and then GO ahead" What You
would like to do may be Il Very good
+
you do IL
In making up your mind what you
}can DO best. II would be we'll to avoid
ore biunder. "a mere mistake of 5udg-
ment based on a mistake as To the
I real facts, IS opposed to the supposed
|. taets.
Many a youthful aspirant has failed
because he undertook To succeed along
tho same line which made his father
famous. But IL is worth while TO Sc
riously consider how seldom a son
becomes great IN the same way his
father did, 1t SO often happens that
a boy is personally more like his
mothers father than his own father,
daughter may closely resemble her
father. or look more like her father $
mother than like her own mother.
The good reason is this:
\ The law OF hereditY seems to he
that certain dominating characterts-
ties have q tendency to pass from
father To daughter. and from mother
tn son. Then the more masculine,
I stalWart and sirile q man the more
likely he is. all things considered. to
marry the gentle. tender. ciingIng
aesthetic woman who Is his natural
opposite or compliment Nature
seems TO make such an effort to keep
near the normal line, and So prevent
any frequent appearance OF either
giant or pigmy
| X Is easy 10 apply this law either
az a. son or daughter, and Il Is
tw0rtfs careful consideration in trying
to decide what you can probably dc
best. Ignorant of that law. the grea,
railroad manager has Erieved. while
he wondered. or maybe in burnt leath
he wondered. that his only son was
only dilitante artist in water color
or maybe In burnt leather, or wood
carving. captain of industry has
been hearthroken and Mortified thai
his daughter sympathized more with
his own early vices than with he,
mothers virtues. Yet either of these
tendencies recognized In time might
have been so directed that the natura
forces sfses represented '41soufd have
all been expressed only in what is con.
structive and good.
Whatever your ambition. you viii
find that to attain II YOU must no
only possess but must express Ger.
tain basic. staring homely oualitie.
in which no really efficient man o,
woman Ia lacking In fact. YOU mus
have such qualities developed To
marked degree, If YOU reach the stand
ard Of success whichever demands
sane and safe soul sanely and safeb
controlling sane mind In game body
Your decision thus far has specia
references to conditions within your.
self. They show what you are ane
what you can do--what you can exi
press, But the efficiency of that ex
preston. the value OF what YOU car