El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-24
Find Out Your Groove
Everyone Has Been sent Into the
World For Definite Design
and should Find IL.
By Madison Z. Peters

! 4 the key is made for the lock and
| ~ the pillar prepared for the socket 50
! - - has everyone been sent into this
world for a definite design and our first
/ business is TO find out what groove we are
intended to I'LL II is just hard TO run
4 a four inch slide on three inch groove as
I il is 10 succeed in any business TO which
your genius does not incline As Dean Swift
has it, A dog by instinct turns aside from
/ the ditch too deep and wide. but man alone
| in his folly combats nature and where she
! loudly cries forbear with Obstinacy fixes
there
James Russell Lowell said: Every man is
born with his business or profession in him.
| and evidences OF ones inclination toward the
right calling IN life usually manifest them
selves quite early in life.
Handel when a little fellow secretly bought
a clavichord, hid it away in the attic and
at midnight used 10 90 up there and play
on it, mufning the strings Of the instrument
with bits OF wood and cloth so that the
softened sounds would not wake the sleeping
inmates OF the house The call OF his genius
was the call Of God
Benjamin West began his career as
painter when boy in the attic OF his home
by making brushes out OF the long hair OF
the family cat. after the parents had meanly
hidden his brush
Napoleon was at the head Of armies when
ten years OF age He was then a pupil at
the military school at Brienne- He wrote to
his mother in Corsica with Homer in my
pocket and my sword by my side 1 nope
TO fight my way through the world"
Let the Boy Say.
II am now talking with father
would urge him to let his boy absolutely
alone I'm the determination OF his life cali
ing Too many fathers imagine their boy
q sort OF duplicate Of themselves. Nature
never makes any duplicates one Of you is
enough Don't spoil your boy by trying 10
make another one out Of him like yourself
The father Of Daniel Webster was deter
mined 10 make a farmer out Of Daniel He
took him into the field and showed him
how 20 cut hay. but Daniel just tinkered
with the scythc. II hung too far out and
then IL hung too FAR in and no matter how
the father fixed the scythe il didn't hang
10 suit Daniel In despair the father told
the boy Hang that scythe 10 suit your
self" Daniel hung it on a tree saying
There IL hangs to suit me" Daniel was
a failure farmer, but he was successful
as an American statesman
The father Of John Adams was determined
20 make his boy a shoemaker He gave him
a pair OF uppers to cut out by a pattern |
which. had a three cornered hole in It TO 1
lowed the pattern. hole and all
A T. Stewart was set apart by his par
euts for the ministry. he was pitched-forked !
through a course Of Latin and Greek and 10 i
escape a course in a theology he came 20 I
America and before he drifted into his proper /
calling as a merchant he taught school ana !
only found the bent Of his genius through i
the accident Of having lent money TO
friend The latter with failure imminent, !
insisted that his creditor should take his
shop as the only means OF securing the
money. He did and found his calling
heasom Tor EAAiuEtH-
A Young man who might become nrst-
rate mechanic or a scientific farmer chances
to have ambitious parents who think IL more
honorable for their son 10 become preacher.
n doctor or a lawyer He is sent 20 COL
ieEe. gets a diploma. breaches sermons no
body wants 20 hear or becomes Quack OF
a doctor or pettifogger Of a lawyer
In another case q boy IS forced by unwise
parents TO become merchant when nature
shows By his skill in hair-spittinE, MS
a droitness at parry. his fertility u resources
IN every emergency. that he was designed for
he bar or the forum
Mistaken Notions.
One Of the most mischievous notions which
has ever obtained a lodEment in the popular
mind is the notion that man to be re-
spected or respectable must enter one OF the
earned professions or at any rate seek some
iignified position
All caliinEs in life are alike honorable u
hey are useful The trouble is with most
men they are more anxious TO make NV
nE by their wits than by work Too many
men are afraid Of job, they want a posi-
ion An IrIshnan said. when asked what
ie would like to be- For nice clean easy
Oh 7 should like 60 he a bishop
7 would like TO put upon the walls OF every
.chooI house Of the land the lines OF Pope / ,
Honor and shame from no condition rise. I
act well your part. there all the honor lies (