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Tacts and Tancies for the Tireside
MISTAKES OF YOUNG MEN.
We read a short time ago of a
young man who had by influential
friends been placed in a position of
'trust and honor, where he could have
in a short time with proper appli
cation to his duty in looking after
the interest of his employer been
able to command a fine salary and
placed himself in the front ranks as
a young man of the town, but he
was one of that kind of beings who
think the world owes them a living
without work, and the consequence
is that today he is a deadbeat, a
loafer around town, no one respects
him, he has no prestige, no influence
for good with whom he associates.
Will his life be a success? Will the
world be made better by his having
lived in it? Will he ever receive
with the consent of the peo
ple a high position? Will he
when his last milepost is past, be
satisfied with the life he has lived?
Young man, don’t be a shirk, don’t
be afraid to put forth your best ef
forts for fear they will not be ap
preciated. The world has its eye
upon you. Live a life that will be
a success. Be a helper to your coun
try and let your life be an honor to
your name. —Wills Point Chronicle.
This world owes no man an easy
living, no matter what the individ
ual may think in that direction, and
the young man who starts out in life
with the intention of making his
way through the exercise of his wits
invariably winds up with a criminal
career.
When our old friend and forbear
Adam transgressed God’s natural
laws, according to the reports that
have come down to us of his con
nection with the garden of Eden, he
carried with him in his retirement
from this ancient elysium an injunc
tion that he and his posterity must
hereafter eke out an existence by
the sweat of their brow, and honest
men have been sweating from that
day to this.
Honest labor is honorable, and the
living that is insured by honest toil
is the best that is vouchsafed to
mankind. Machinery that is not in
operation soon rusts out and goes
into decay, and it is the same way
with the human mechanism. The
man who works and gives honest
value for what he receives is of val
ue to the community in which he re
sides, no matter how humble is his
avocation. The man who honestly
earns what comes his way is the best
type of our citizenship and the main
bulwark of this nation.
There is a nobility in honest la
bor, but it seems to be lost in the
case of many of our young men.
They prefer anything and all things
to the vocation that calls for much
physical exertion, and that fact ac
counts for the army of grafters and
fakirs now preying upon the body
politic from one end of the country
to the other.
But virtue has its reward in the
end, and the man, who refuses to
work for himself is generally com
pelled sq worlc for ..the state. Our pe-
nal bear eloquent testi
mony to that fact. Thousands of young
men who believe it to be beneath
their dignity to perform honest la
bor are finding that when it comes
to making a living through the ex
ercise of their wits they are but en
tering the broad avenue that leads
straight to the iron doors of the
state penitentiary.
The young men of our country
cannot afford to indulge in these
mistakes for they are demoralizing
in their effect upon the community
and upon the nation. They must
get above the idea that the world
owes them an easy living and real
ize that they owe the world the high
est form of citizenship. And good
citizenship involves the giving of val
ue for all things received.—Fort
Worth Telegram.
WHY HE WAS NOT PROMOTED.
He watched the clock.
He was always grumbling.
He was always behindhand.
He has no iron in his blood.
He was willing, but unfitted.
He didn’t believe in himself.
He asked too many questions.
He was stung by a bad book.
His stock excuse was “I forgot.”
He wasn’t ready for the next
step.
He did not put his heart in his
work.
He learned nothing from his mis
takes.
He felt that he was above his po
sition.
He chose his friends among his
inferiors.
He was content to be a second rate
man.
He ruined his ability by half
doing things.
He never dared to act on his own
judgment.
He did not think it worth while
to learn how.
He tried to make bluff take the
place of hard work.
He thought more of amusements
than of getting on in the world.
Familiarity with slipshod methods
paralyzed his ideal.
He thought it was clever to use
coarse and profane language.
He did not learn that the best part
of his salary was not in his pay en
velope.—lndiahorfia Union Signal.
JEFFERSON’S TEN RULES.
Never put off until tomorrow what
you can do today.
Never trouble another for what
you can do yourself.
Never spend your money before
you have made it.
Never buy what you don’t want
because it is cheap.
Pride costs more than hunger,
thirst and cold.
We seldom repent of having eaten
too little.
Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
How much pain the evils that
have never happened cost ns.
Take things always by the smoolh
handle.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
When angry, count ten before you
speak; when very angry, count a
hundred.
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SHOULD A POOR MAN MARRY?
Some young women in Indiana
have organized a unique society, the
purpose of which is the protection
of its members against impecunious
suitors and thus against poverty.
Members of the organization will de
mand to be convinced with respect
to the financial standing of the
young fellows who come a-courting
them. No young fellow who cannot
show $2,000 cash, or that equivalent
in property, and a life insurance pol
icy of equal amount, will be consid
ered available as a husband for one
of these progressive young women.
Affinity and affection cut no figure
in the society’s calculations. It is
a sort of insurance concern charg
ing no premium save the member’s
pledge that she will observe its rule
of refusing to entertain any pro
posal from any young man who can
not “show the goods.”
At first blush that seems a rath
er cold-blooded sort of proposition
to put to Love, who is supposed
to laugh at poverty as"well as lock
smiths. But, to the minds of these
Indiana maids, the time is past for
young wives to live on bread and
cheese and kisses, and possibly have
to hustle hard themselves for the
bread and cheese. While a consid
erable amount of money, or prop
erty, may not be essential to hap
piness in marriage, a certain amount
of it is absolutely necessary to liv
ing. It is an ancient adage that
when poverty comes in at the door
love flies out of the window. This
is not invariably true, but it is oft
en the case, leading to a variety of
most regrettable circumstances. And
where love does not fly out of the
window, but remains true, it fre
quently occurs that the household is
one of crushed spirit and suffering.
A movement to prevent this sort of
thing certainly deserves considera
tion.
But there is another viewpoint.
Many entirely worthy young men
reach the marriageable age lacking
$2,000 capital or a life insurance
policy of that amount. These young
men have in them the making of
good husbands, good fathers and
good citizens. Shall they be denied
the privilege of marriage because
they cannot show a certain amount
of money? A considerable number
of the great men in the history of
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this country have married while they
were poor, very poor. Their wives
proved an inspiration to them, help
ing and encouraging them to repeat
ed and finally winning efforts. Abra
ham Lincoln would have been denied
the privilege of courting one of the
Indiana girls to whose society we
have referred above. Every commu
nity in the country has its prosper
ous men who married poor and
whose wives helped them up the lad
der.
After all, it is the personal equa
tion that must count. No, young
man should marry until he is able
to take care of a wife, and no young
w T oman should marry until she is sat
isfied that her would-be husband can
provide for her; yet there should
be, and can be, no set rule of owner
ship of property fixed below which
there should be no marriage. Per
sonality is the main thing, after all.
—Savannah News.
WORK MAKES MEN.
Work makes men. Luck usually
fails. Pluck nearly always wins. To
succeed in anything one must over
come obstacles, says an exchange.
Force and fibre are built by hard
ships. Grit is as necessary in the
making of man as gumption. Hard
ships are not always handicaps.
Often they are help. You will un
derstand this better in twenty years.
Meanwhile permit one who has lived
twenty years and more to advise you
in this. Hang onto your job until
you are sure of a better one. De
pendable boys are in demand. And
no boy can be depended upon who
does not finish the task he sets his
hand to do. However disagreeable
your work, do it thoroughly. Do it
better than the average boy will do
it. In that way you will come to b?
known as a dependable boy. And
mind you this. Men everywhere are
looking for capable, honest, gritty,
dependable boys. The sooner you let
people know you are that kind of
a boy, the sooner you will get a bet
ter job. And don’t be in a hurry
to give up the work you alreadv
have. Be sure something better is
offered. Wait awhile. Do your
work well. Promotion will come.
And do not envy the boy who has
an easy time. You would much bet
ter pity him. He has a good time
now, but some day he must “make
good.” With his flabby muscles
and his easy habits and many wants,
he stands a far poorer chance than
you.—Clifton Mirror.
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