Show country boys country lads often feel that their lot is a hard one they see city bred youngsters on their travels and their sprees at the a age e of veritable young gentlemen with a finished exterior a cigar and ana a nd a cane the young farmer at the same age finds finda himself with a hoe in his hand band and a cheap straw hat on his hn head sweating among the hills of corn ile he is frequently envious of his city brother whisking past him in the cars with kid gloves delicate ringlets and plenty of money in his pocket mind your corn boy hoe it out clean keep steadily to the labor you have in hand ha nd do it well and in time your good days will come too if you find far farming is not suited to your taste or your strength or to your circumstances if you like mechanism better or have a capacity for any business whatever eventually you may engage c in it is all the sa have begun right the city blades have begun wrong and in due time you will see it their fathers and mothers will in the end see it too do not feel envious of the pleasures that a hot house man enjoys but remember not in a malicious but sober spirit that such plants wither early by the time you have acquired fixed habits of industry and acquired a corresponding perfection of mind and body your delicately reared of the town begins to feel the debilitating effects of idleness and dissipation he is not alone to blame for a weak body and a profitless mind it is the result of a system but he cannot escape from its effects these he must endure for himself hims elfy in his own person his father may be a professional fess ional manor a merchant or may be merely I 1 tk nich rich r the chances are fifty against one that the tho e son will not replace his father such is the result of well settled experience business falls into the hands of those who are most competent it does not descend to heirs it is the country boys after all who do the city business observing men have often stated this fa fact c and any one who will take a directory to and inquire into the ori orl origin ein eln gin 0 of f the business busigin men of cleveland or boston or new york will find it to be so all external circumstances cum stances are in favor of the son or the clerk succeeding to the trade of the old firm but the son seldom almost never dies in the position of a partner of the house why is it si simply I 1 because habitual industry is wanting 1 with iti all the external odds against it the country furnishes the cities their principal business men if intelligent fa faithful 1 withful and persevering and a above bove all cheerful and contented the chances are that the lad with the hoe will eventually do the business of the father of the lad in gloves who is now luxuriating in his travels ohio farmer |