El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-01

4 MAN wants TO know how a per-
"A son can determine the kind OF
- work that he is best fitted to do.
how to choose the particular Occupa-
ton in which his energies and abilities
will find their most profitable outlet
can best answer this question by
repeating the reply that one Of the
vyisest and most successful men in New
York made TO me when asked him If
he thought a certain line Of business
offered a good opening for lad IN
whom I was much interested
ANY business is a good business and
offers brilliant opportunities" replied
this wise man; 1T doesn't make a
particle Of difference what occupation
a man goes into. It's all in the man
himself. You can find fame and for
tune in any hole and corner Of the
working world If you hunt for it hard
enough
This latter day Solomon is right.
Success is in US. It's in the punch we
put into our work. and not in the work
itself We make our opportunities. and
we write our own price tags.
1t doesn't matter what we do, If We
only do it well enough.
Exceptions in Few CallIngs-
OF course. there is this much excep-
ton TO that broad statement; There
are a few professions. such as music
painting. writing and acting. to which
one must have been dedicated before
ever he was born in order to achieve
any great success No amount OF
human industry and striving could
make tone-deaf man a Caruso or
Paderewslli. or a cOlOr-blind man a
Whistler, or turn an unimaginatiVe
man into a kipling, or convert heavy
stolid wooden-faced man into Henry
Irving.
Yet many misguided men and women
think that they can become great and
famous artists and writer's and painters
and actors merely BY their aspiring TO
these careers, land there are no
tragedies in life more bitter or more
pathetic than that Of the near geniuses
who starve along, year after year, try
ing TO do the thing they have not the
talent TO do. failure and disappoint-
menr always their portion, because
they have entered themselves in race
they were not meant 10 run
But how are the man and woman
who yearn to stand in the center OF
the stage in the spotlight or 10 see
their names in print, to know whether
they are OF those predestinated to act
or write? Mark Twain once gave
piece OF advice to a literary aspirant
that has always appealed TO me as the
last word i'm common sense on the sub
ject. He said:
Mark Twain's Sound Advice.
Give everything that you can write
TO any respectable paper that viii
publish il for two years. II, at the
end Of that time some magazine or
newspaper does not want to buy what
YOU write be sure you have chosen the
rs.r11fnnr and hrrgW aT
thing else" These words be apples or
gold in pictures OF silver and IT, after
having given the sO-called fine arts
reasonable trial, the public does not
writer's or actors do well to accept the
worlds verdict on their ability and
turn their attention TO other fields
There are also certain people OF
definite talent who are called to their
careers whether II be law, or medicine,
or sailing the seas. or selling drygoOds-
They could not he happy doing any
thing else. They must do that one
thing whether there is any profit in IL
or not. because their whole interest
lies in IT, II is the breath Of their
nostrils, without which they cannot
live.
These are the most blessed people i'm I
the world, because there is no other
JOY in life equal to that OF doing the Z
work We like best and in which we find !
our fullest expression Also these I
people are almost always successful, |
because they put their whole heart and /
soul into doing the thing they love; 4
they are always thinking OF how to do !
il better and better. and that Invariably !,
leads them to the goal
Too Many Drift About.
But there are a great MANY people 4
who have no especial talent and no par I
ticular inclination toward any one
especiafline Of endeavor. and the ques- /
tion is how are these neutral and un- 4
enthusiastic individuals to find the
them don't find it. and they make