El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-23
Find Out Your Groove
Everyone Has Been Sent Into the
World For n Definite Design
and should Find It
BY Madison e. 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 HIl. II is just as hard 10 run
a four inch slide on three inch groove as
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 Wnere she
loudly cries forbear with obstinacy likes
'Hs's Is Born in Him.
lanes Russell Lowell said Every man Is
horn with his business or profession in him.
and evidences OF ones inclination toward the
right calling in life usually manifest them
Handel when a little fellow secretly bought
A cIavichord hid IL away in the attic and
at midnight used TO 20 up there and play
on 70. muffling the strings OF the instrument
with bits OF wood and cloth so that the
softensd 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 a
uainter when a boy in the attic Of his home
by making brushes out OF the long halr OF
the family cat, after the parents had meanly
ii'i Napoleon was at the head Of armies when
ten years OF age. he was then a pupu al
the military school at Brienne. He wrote to
his mother in Corsica with Homer IN my
pocket and my sword by my side hope
LlEuL my way AAAADLNAA ALtH WIN
Let the Boy Say
II an now talking with father !
would urge him to let his boy absolutely
alone IN the determination Of his life call
ing TOO many fathers imagine their boy
a sort OF duplicate Of themselves Nature
never makes any duplicate one OF YOU Is
enough Don't spoil your boy by trying 70
make another one out OF him like yourself
You are enough.
The father OF Daniel Webster was deter
mined 10 make farmer out Of Daniel ne
took him into the field and showed him
how 10 cut hay. hut Daniel just tnkerec
with the scythe- It hung too Tar out aho
tbe0 f+ hung too far in and no matter how
the father fixed the scythe II didn't hang
to suit Daniel In despair the fatner told
the boy Hang that scythe to suit your
self" Daniel hung Il on tree saying
There It hangs 20 suit me" Daniel vas
a failure as a farmer but ne was sueeeSsiui
as an American statesman
Th. father Of John Adams was determined
10 make his boy shoemaker He gave MIN
n rair OF uppers TO cut out by a pattern
tffcL ~ three cornered hole in it to
hang Il IN by. The future statesman fol-
lowed the pattern. hole and all
A T. Stewart was set apart by his par
erts for the ministry. he was pitched-forked
through a course Of Latin and Greek and 10
escape a course in theology ne came 20
America and before he drifted INTO MS proper
calling as a merchant he taught school ana
only found the bent Of his genius through
the accident OF having lent money 20
friend The latter with failure imminent
insisted that his creditor should take ms
shop as the only means OF securing the
r-nunw He did and FOUND MS C----l-s
Reason for Failures
A Young man who might become a lirSl-
rate mechanic or a scientific farmer chances
10 have ambitious parents who think IL more
honorable for their son TO become a preacher
a doctor or a lawyer He is sent 70 COZ
1ece gets a diploma breaches sermons no
bodv wants to hear or becomes Quach OF
a doctor or a pettifoEger Of lawyer
In another case a boy is forced 10y unWlSe
psreutz 10 become a merchant when nature
shows BY his skin in hair-splitrinG- MS
odroftness at parry. his fertility OF resources
in every emergency. that he was designed ioI
the bar or the forum
Mistaken Notions.
One OF the most mischievous notions when
has ever obtained a lcdEment in the popular
mind IS the notion that man TO be re-
spacted o.. respectable must enter one or the
learned professions or at any rate seek some
diEnified position 90
An calIings in lie are alike honorable II
they are useful The trouble Is with most
men they are more anxious 10 make Nv
ing hv their wits than by work Too many
men are afraid Of Job. they want POSI-
tfou An Irishman said. when asked Nn--
he would like 10 be- For nice clean easy
5ob 7 should like 20 be bishop
I would like 20 put upon the walls OF eEely
school house Of the land the lines or Fop--
ssFFouor and shame from no condition rise:
Act well your part. there all the honor Hes