The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-04-07
Howe About:
Making a Fortune
Problem for Stenographers
Reading
By ED HOWE

young man finds himself with wife
on his hands, and family Of children
coming on. (How universally children
keep coming onD He works and saves
with view Of providing for them.
From an expert workman he becomes
foreman. superintendent, proprietor in
a small way. and works long hours.
He discovers that the more reliable
he is, the more he helps in community
affairs, the more his business prospers.
In course Of time his little business be-
comes big business, if he continues
to manage it well. Finally, along to-
ward old age, he becomes well-to-do,
occasionally rich. And at forty, fifty
or sixty he is more reliable than he
was at twenty or at thirty, when q
small business man, foreman or super
intendent. There is nothing In the
general belief that as soon as good
workman is advanced, he becomes
more careless in his morals.
"A man in Florida, separated from
his wife, employed woman as his sec
rotary. One day when the secretary
came out of her Office she was shot
and killed by the wife; FIVE balls were
fred, and although women are sup
posed to be poor pistol shots, every one
was deadly. Was the trouble between
the husband and wife due to the bad
acts of the secretary? If the secre-
for
seven newspaper readers out of ten,
and the twelve jurymen to be called
later to decide the case, will believe
she was not. 1t is an exhibition of
human unfairness that the millions Of
good girls who study stenography at
business colleges must consider.
Books, newspapers, magazines and
pamphlets have become so numerous
many say they are pest.
Still, in the stream of print is all
the wisdom the race has accumulated,
and all the good writing; the problem
is to find it in the pile of rubbish.
1 have a friend of reasonable taste
who is an enormous reader. He gets
his start in selecting books of possible
value by belonging to book clubs in
New York, and has accumulated
great number of such selections.
lately visited him, and came away
with ten he specially recommended.
Only three Of them actually interested
me, although looked over the others,
and found some curious things in the
process.
Books are like men: so many Of
them do not amount to anything. 1
know an old fellow who walks occa-
sionally, for the benefit Of the exer-
else and fresh air, and during these
walks he looks straight ahead, that he
may see as few men as possible.
"The English" says Canadian writ
er, "seem to have world perspective,
a world outlook and world philosophy,
unequaled by any other people on
earth" I neither deny nor accept the
statement, but it causes me to wonder
just how much truth there is in it.
should say France and Germany are
close rivals of England as possessing,
on an average, the wisest and most eff
ficient inhabitants. Up to the time of
the war Germany was crowding Eng
land for first place; since the war
France has shown itself smarter than
either of it's rivals. The United States
is entirely out of the competition, not
because of lack of efficiency, but be-
cause lack of common sense has be-
come our national misfortune. Some
say the island of Java is the Garden
of Eden so far as ease of making a
living is concerned, and that the rule
of the Hollanders comes near being the
wisest and best. Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, should be considered in pick
ing out the country best managed.
Switzerland, although it has far better
scenery than soil, has long attracted
attention as specially well managed SO
far as public affairs are concerned.
In reading sea stories / have OBJ
served that when there is strong
wind, a good captain drives his ship,
and takes risks. Occasionally he
meets disaster from driving too hard
in a roaring gale; at best the decks,
the cook house and life boats are
afloat, and the sailors get little rest.
The best captains take chances in
everything, to get along. Still, man
who drives his ship in a hurricane,
to make up for the days he is be-
Gained, must have sound judgment;
sound knowledge as to the strength of
ropes, masts and sails.
In my home in the country I have
heard no show commended as much as
"Of Thee I Sing" The show has not
come within two or three hundred
miles of me. but travellers to the big
towns have seen it, and told me of it's
unusual cleverness.
The writers of the play have made
a great fortune. Soon we will be
hearing of their yachts, their strings
of race horses, of their being sued
for alimony.
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