Evening star., 1926-10-02
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
in a better position at the end to in
telligently select his life work.

/ in a better position at the end to in
telligently select his life work.
| x x 4 4
| Take No l. the waffle man. If you
! receive orders for WaffieS from 2,i4b
persons a day, you will know some.
| thing of life from the other side of
! the counter
The little old maid who takes her
breakfast on the run will look upon
| you, glorious in your freshly starched
/ apron and cocky white hat. as friend
| in need. You will get her half-mut-
| tered wish for waff1es before she
utters it. The Grabbed man. the
more Grabbed woman. will become the
| usual. In after life they will not
wound your feelings, because you
have faced them before-you. know
them of old
Every young man ought to take
turn at feeding the populace at retail.
Then he begins to look upon men as
| merely large stomachs to be filled
| Unsuitable maWs, ever longing for
bigger and better waff1es.
About this time in his life he
switches to job No. 2, that of a street
| car conductor. Here he meets the
roar of traffic, sees another side of
the workaday world, as it is called;
| takes part as cog in the great mod
ern traffic wheel. yet lives his indi-
vldual life through it all.
Then he takes on job No. 3, that of
| newspaper man. In three months, it
is true, he cannot do much, but he
can get a taste of life as only the
newspaper man can get 1t, and he
can look bit into the hidden motives
or men and see the great as they are
and sometimes as they are not.
x X X X
The benefits of job No 4, the Army
scarcely need detailing, although they
will vary in proportion to the intelli
gence and straight shooting our stu
dent of life brings to his task.
1t may or may not be relief to
him to get out of his khaki into the
| overalls of job No. 5. the plumber.
He serves as the representative of Il
whole host of trades. If Il man is a
plumber, he is brother to carpenters,
painters, paperhangers, mechanics,
and so on-men who build up, tear
down to repair, make homes bigger
| and, we hope, better.
A farmers life, No. in the list, will
sweep away false notions in many
lines. 1t will put our student in
touch with growing things, give him
clil locd VI Tic eSSclllldl nature OF InlS
oldest Of occupations. Wheat -four,
instead of being a disagreeable neces-
sity. as he regarded it when selling
Wafties from behind q counter to flip
city gents, will turn into the very
blood of his life
AS a banker, job No. Z, our student
will get a necessary slant on money
matters-necessary, since all his life
afterWard, no matter what he does for
living, he will have to handle
money.
Every man ought to try his hand at
salesmanship, especially in America
To go from door to door and be turned
down fiat with your nice, shiny alumi-
mum, is not that something to try the
soul of a man?
Then the merchant, No. 9, with his
cheerful morning face. His problems.
his work, his relaxation at the lunch
con club-let our man know all this.
too.
Last, but not least, we would have
him know the peace and happiness of
the gardener. This is an occupation
dlstlnct from that of the farmer-one
which every man may later practice.
no matter what his life work. 1t
brings a man back to the earth again