Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-12-20
THE BOY AND HIS JOB.

causes loss to you. Be as careful of
it's property as if you owned it.
If you are employed on a farm,
take as much interest in everything
that pertains to it as If it was your
farm. Pick up a stray board, stop a
leak, repair a lock, cover exposed
machinery, and look after anything
that falls to your notice, just as the
farmer himself would do.
If you are a clerk in a store, get
the thought in your mind that it is
your store and be as anxious as the
proprietor to keep things neat, to
attract customers and to avoid losses.
When you work for man, you
do not work for wages. If your eye
is only on your pay you are second
class worker. You will certainly
slight your work and your employer
will get rid of you as soon as he can.
You have something better than
wages to work for, always; it is your
self, for your future.
You owe it to your best self to be
loyal, to give the best that is in you.
You are in a way a partner in the
concern.
If your employer is an unjust and
selfish person and takes advantage
of you, overworks you, does not ap-
preciate what you do, complains and
never says an encouraging word,
right there is where you are to show
the stuff you are made of. Stick to
your principle. Don't be like him.
Keep on doing the best you can for
him. When you cannot stand it any
longer-quit. But never take a man s
money and slight his work.
If you persist in this way, you are
bound, sooner or later, to become
known as valuable man. Your
services will be in demand.
While you take active concern in
your employers affairs, don't be of.
fcious. Remember that every bust.
ness is in way military affair
Some one head has to run it. The
rest are to obey orders. Your re.
sponsibility lies in doing what you
are told. If you think your orders
are not wise, obey anyhow; the re-
sponsibility for them is not on your
shoulders.
Get the habit of listening atten
lively to what your employer com
mands. Don't take things for grant
ed. Have things made plain. Fine
out exactly what he wants, and do it
Never bungle job. What yo,
do, do well. If you have to curry ;
horse, curry it clean. If you are tt
sweep the store, make it as tidy a,
particular woman's parlor. If you
are to tie bundles, learn how to max,
them look as though they had beer
done up by machinery. If your worl
is to black shoes, black the heels
Nobody wants boy who is habitual
ly negligent, slipshod and careless il
his work
There is no one little trick tina
will hep you to make good more
than getting the habit of beins
polite.
Whenever you meet a woman you
know take off your hat, whether i
is the boss wife or a washwoman.
Whenever woman enters tn,
room where you are get up from
your chair, whether it is a typewrit
ing girl or a princess.
Whenever you sell anybody any
thing, if it is only a one cent paper
say, Il thank YOU" Don't say
Thank YOU"
When you do not understand wha
is said to you, do not say "How?'
or "What?" Say, Il beg your par
DOM" Some folks may poke vulgar
fun at you, but you stick to beins
polite, and some day you will b,
hiring the vulgar funmakers and dis
charging them.
The most offensive thing abou
Americans is their gruffness and lacl
of courtesy. Clerks, conductors
ticket agents and messenger boy.
seem to think it is smart to be
short and sharp. There never wa!
a greater mistake.-Woman's World