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THE FUTURE CITIZEN.
PAGE 3.
A BOY’S FUTURE CAREER
By
Mrs. Frank Learned,
Author of “Etiquette in New York To-day.”
N the choice of
a career boys
should have the
intelligent sym
pathy of rheir
parents; and
girls, too, if it
is necessary for
them to have a “career.”
But that is a many-sided question
to be discussed in another talk.
A truly disinterested and intelli
gent father, who studies his boy
from early childhood, with a view
to giving him the right training
will find, usually, signs to guide
him, and if a boy is brought up
with some special vocation in view
there will be hopeful, joyous con
centration of mind on that definite
object.
Although he should not be bur
dened with a sense of responsibili-; means less sacrifice for themselves,
wisdom and unselfishness on the
part of parents to'help their boys
to decide and not let them drift in
to occupations and spoil their lives
by haphazard methods.
* * *
A great mistake is to urge on a
lad in work or in business from
mere motives of expediency, or be-
j cause more money may be earned
quickly. It is here that the sel
fishness of parents is seen some
times in shortening a boy’s years
at school and persuading him to en
ter some employment so that he
may become an immediate wage
earner.
If parents analyze in themselves
their own motives, if by honest and
conscientious scrutiny thev look
deeply into their own hearts, they
may discover that they are led to
urge things on a boy because it
ty about it, he may be encouraged
to think about the matter and to
learn to understand himself and
what he is fitted to do.
or because more prompt benefit
will come to themselves than if they
did something else.
Instead of bending their energies
It is the plain duty of his parentsi toward what will be beneficial to a
to aid him in the development of
all his abilities so that any definite
taste he shows may serve as an in
dication as to his education and 1
training.
* * * -
The mistake that a father some
times makes is in urging a boy to
take up some business or profession
in which he is himself engagfed,
while a boy may have directly op
posite tastes and inclinations. r .Rhis
perfunctory way of settling a boy’s
career is a positive injustice to the
son.
’ Some children show at an early
age a definite inclination toward a
certain work some talent in a
special line, which is a clew to what
their vocation may be ; others are
undecided in their tastes, slow in
development, and need to have
suggestions made to them in order
to guide them toward a useful
life.
f- Boys need help and encourage
ment in choosing what they have a-
bent for or what they can best do.
In any case, it takes love, patience,
TO THE YOUNG MAN.
Young, man I notice that you are
not in school anv more. What’s
the matter? Think you have re
ceived enough education to carry
you through the world ? Or do you
stay out just because you do not
like to go? Didn’t like the teach
er, eh ! Well let me tell you that
you will find the meanest teacher
on earth now a dream of love beside
some of the bdsses you will work
under in the cold unfeeling years
you will plow into when you have
to hustle for yourself. -Education
is the most valuable thing in the
world to a mail, but to a bov it
comes the cheapest. It costs noth
ing now to get that for which many
a man in town would give all he
has to possess. You have the win
ning number in the lottery of ed
ucation if you play it now. Loaf
around a few years and you will
draw a blank. It is true that any
man can make a living, but you
will notice that the fellows who aid
with their brains have an easier
time of it than those who are com
pelled to use only their muscles.
At the present stage of the game the
choice jobs are not held by physical
strength. Education will not crawl
into your head while you sleep.
“ The thing for you to do is to
hike off to sc hool to-morrow morn
ing and stay there. Your holidays
will come later when you need
them.—Rocky Mountain Educator.
VIM OF THE FARMER
boy when he comes to manhood,
they force their own wishes and
preferences upon him.
It is only fair to a worker that
he should have the work he naturally
likes. He will have pleasure in it.
Not only will it be better done, but
it will help to mold character. The farmer’s vim shiws in get
* * * | ting at the spring work the minute
In work that is distasteful he I it is ready. Shows, too, in the
will be doomed to a certain sort of ‘ way he pushes that work. One
misery, disappointment, even bit-1 day on and two days off point to
terness. Happiness in pursuing a failure in the near future. Vim
congenial occupation is so great ‘ shows, also, in the pride a man puts’
that even a partial success in it,; into his work. Some men show by
with less money and less distinction ! their very faces that they love their
gives more contentment than pros- J work and are bound to do it just
perity won at the cost of a long,; right. They are the ones that come
dull grind in an occupation entered out at the head of the heap. Vim
into with u view to monetary sue-; k a man . s luMrt bri , ht und
cess i 1
Boys of fine, manly character cherry. Takes a pretty good man
will not fail in love and gratitude to whistle just as cheerily when it
toward parents, who have faithfully» rains as when it shines! I he man
helped them to choose careers and * with true vim in his heart can do
have given them, as far as possible, | it, and he will do it. Any men
opportunities to prepare for chos- J with vim down your way? burin
en pursuits.
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