The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-09-11
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o.. NoRA COLE SKINNER.

u, NORA COLE SKINNER.
=. ,,os al a retail coal mems con-
ntor p oklahoma City n good
.y yr1rs ago that in making a
u.b and humorously compli-
p,,iog "A rortnin salesman, one of
=. palors tl!d.
STbat man Is the only man on
..,b who can come into my office
u.sk and sell me a car OF dirt
as coal and come back the next
'aot and srli me another"
'Nsed 10 br told that that man is
~, selling coal on the road today.
", his persuasive powers have
N-,,d him ON until. Mt the head
= bank, he diverts poor and
sronlc borrowers to other money
,nrres with tact, and, high in the
Talrs of concern that controls
s.t investments, nc, somewhat in
- old dIt for coal DAYS, oCca
"onallly soils oil land without oil l.?
An of which leads circuitously TO
~ noint This man had "a yoca-
ian. he s..tled on it early In life.
nd he stuck to it and made for
rmself "a fJrtune.
ylis fort was personality. the abii-
K TO persuade, to win others To his
'rv Of thinking. Ills llne was salcs-
-ship-bo It caol, bonds, notes
, With the swinging wide of school
nd college doors this fall Il is TO
" hoped students enter with some
hing OF 20 definite idea relative to
that they want to become whom
he doors some years hence shall
wing closed again. l have knowl-
de that I'm the past the greater
art Of them entered with only n
nzy idea that they were expected
70 get uu education and that,
.omehow, from this color,ess, form
,ts and unorganizcd conception, in
lue time their particular avocation
yould reveal itself.
Beginning with the four years
Il high school is not too early. but
iot to have &cided with the en-
rance az college IL ever a regretted
mistake
Courses are now mapped out in
irst class institutions leading TO
very conceivable line of endeavor.
nd il is the sensible and logical
onduct that student weigh well
her talDnts, her inclinations, her
and the desire of her
5Scnts, and then blue-card what
VII best equip her for the chosen
led.
Il speaks well for the type of
MODERN girl that almost every ono
II them upon leaving school. takeq
~ some particular activity. no
natter whether her fathers bnnk
rcount be fat or slim. Ii is tn br
eeretteG, however, that securing n
'B. A constitutes her ide, ~
Nulpment, for after, starting with
nat 10 ind her job she learns that
ne should have settled It's nature
our years back, and with her gait
Ver Neered III that direction, pre-
jared herself for the given goal
one girl | know who has taught
chool four years and hated every
ay or 1t, ought to be an .ntcrior
decorator or designer. She is an
rtlst, she il gifted, but a, the ~
he malorcd III English like other
housandS do, 80 now she must COZ.
fe' theHes instead of in less
, frocks.
sur WIStr lndN some but
10Y wise enough, selected social
erVice work and took all classes
eatins on that subject. But her
lIst jon Kept her 80 much at the
ouh'y Jail, the cotton mills district
nd among the fallen and depraved
nat her mother rebelled. Now
le II az school again studying
lhdergartcn, the next to her taste.
uu m mus time mother and daughter
ogether settled the calling,
'oht drift. Fix definitely what
ou want and are fitted 10 do, then
'ersevere. II marriage and a ar.
ertnt destiny lurk but around the
Sher Your Accomplishment Is not
.asIed. The power and satisfac-
ION ttat comes through the knowl-
dge Of something personally
NhleNcl IL wOtfh 10 oil