Show from itom am ahren journal mistakes Hi stakes of Fa parents rents or nature stronger than authority A good start is half the race and a proper occupation the guarantee of success and happiness there are few persons who have not talent enough of some sort to earn a respectable living if it were properly y directed many a boy by is set s et apart for a profession who wiio has neither wit nor worth action nor utterance nor the power of speech to stir mens blood and the consequence is he be is an infliction on the he public until he is cast off to starve and ten still the he unfortunate boy could have shod horses attended machinery or built houses successfully success cess fully if he be could not make acceptable sermons or speeches or he could have herded sheep and cattle however ill qualified he be might have been to feed the flock of god another is compelled to pursue arsue a mechanical trade whose tastes are wholly literary literary and scientific phrenology gives parents the advantage of knowing to what business heir children are best adapted before they have hive wasted lie the entire seedtime seed time or apprenticeship season of life ilfe ite ife in finding finding out that ihal they h rave gave ave mistake i their thein ein eln vocations arll aril and must roust begin again with perhaps no better setter success or blunder on to the grave the following lowing ol which we copy from an exchange exchanged will illustrate this his auw subject act mr nin solomon I 1 winthrop was a plain old farmer an austere precise man who did everything by established rule and abd could see no reason why been eople people should grasp at things beyond what had bad been reached by their great grandfathers he had three children two boys od a girl there was jeremiah seventeen years old samuel hit bit fifteen teen and fanny thirteen it was a cold winters day samuel was in the kitchen reading a book po so interested was he hat that he did not notice the entrance of his father jeremiah was in the opposite corner engaged in ciphering nut a sum which lie he had found in his arithmetic sam 1 said the tiie father to his youngest son have you worked out that sum yet no sir 1 returned the boy in a hesitating manner I 1 tell you to stick to your arithmetic till yli you had done it uttered mr air winthrop in a severe tone samuel hung down his head and looked troubled why you done ity it continued the father 1 11 I cant do it tremblingly returned the boy cant scant do ili ill it and why not look at jerry there with his slate elate and arithmetic ile he had bad ciphered further than you have long 11 before be was as old as you jerry was always fond of mathematical problems sir but I 1 cannot fasten my mind on them they have no interest to me because you dont try to feel an interest in in your 0 ur studies what book is that you are ali ail I 1 re reading 1 1 g its it Is a work on philosophy sir 1 A work on stick go put it away this Us instant and then get your slate and dont let me see you awal awai away from your ari arl arithmetic again until you can wor work out these roots do vou understand me samuel made no reply but silently he put away his philosophy and then he be got his slate and sat down in the c chimney corner his nether netiler lip trembled and his eyes moistened for li e was unhappy his father had been harsh towards him and he felt that it was without cause sam said jerry as soon as the old man had gone 1 I will do that sum for you no jerry returned the younger brother but with i th a grateful look hat that would be deceiving father I 1 will tr try to do the sum though if I 1 fear fean ear I 1 shall not succeed samuel worked very hard but all to no purpose his mind was not on the subject before him the roots and squares the bases base and perpendiculars e r ulars though comparatively simple in in themselves t phe ms elves were to him a mingled mass of incomprehensible things and the more lie he tried the more did he became perplexed and bothered the truth was his bis father did not understand him samuel was a bright boy and uncommonly intelligent tell igent for one of his age mr winthrop was a thorough math mathematician lie he never yet came across the problem he could not solve and he be desired that his boys should be like him for he be conceived that the acme of educational berf perfection artion lay in the he power of conquering euclid and be often expressed his opinion that were euclid living then he could give the old geometrician a hard tussle he seemed not to com comprehend that different minds were made with different different Tiff krent erent capacities that what one mind grasped with ease another of equal power would fail to comprehend hence because jeremiah progressed rapidly with his mathematical studies and could already survey a piece of land of many angle he imagined that becan because sew seo samuel made no progress in the same branch he was idle and careless and treated him accordingly ile he never candidly conversed with his younger son with willi a view to ascertain the true bent of his mind but he had his own standard stan daid of the power of all minds and he adhered to it there was another thin tiling that mr winthrop could not see and that was wag that samuel was continually pondering upon such profitable matters as interested him and that he be was war scarcely ever idle nor did his father see either that if lie he even wished his boy to become a mathematician he was pursuing the very course to prevent such a result instead of endeavoring to make the study interesting to the child he was making it obnoxious the dinner hour came and samuel had not worked out the sum his father was angry and obliged to ef cor without his dinner at the he same time telling him that he was an idle lazy child poor samuel left the kitchen and went up to his chamber and there he sat and cried at ledith his mind seemed see melto meIto to pass from the wrong he had summered suffered ered cred at the hand of his parent and took another turn and the grief marks left his face there was a large fire in the room below bis big chamber so that be he was not very cold and getting up he went to a small closet and from beneath a lot of old clothes he dragged forth some long strips of wood and commenced whittling etwas it kasnot for a mere pastime that he whittled tiled for he was fashioning some curious affair from those piece pieces of wood he had bits of wire little scraps of tin in plate e pieces of twine and dozens of small wheels that he be had made himself and he seemed to be working to get them together after some peculiar fashion of his own on half the afternoon had thus passed away away when his sister entered the chamber she had her aborn gathered up in her hand and after closing the door softly behind her she approached approached the spot where her brother sat eat here sammy see I 1 have bare brought you something to eat I 1 I 1 know you must be hungry 1 As she spoke she opened her apron and ard took out four cakes gakes and a piece of pie and cheese the boy was hungry and be he hesitated not to avail himself of his sisters kind offer he kissed her as be he took the cake and thanked her oh what a pi retty pretty thing that is you are makins making uttered fanny as she gazed upon the result of her brothers labors wont you give lve ive it to me after it is done not this one sister returned the boy with a mile smile but as soon as I 1 get time I 1 will make lake you one equally as pretty fanny thanked her tier brother and shortly after maids left fhe the room and the boy resumed his work at the end of a week the various materials that had been subjected to samuels jackknife and pincers had assumed form and comeliness and they were jointed and grooved together in a curious combination the embryo philosopher set taft machine for foi it looked much like a machine upon the floor and then hen flood off and gazed upon it his eyes gleamed with a peculiar glow of satisfaction Fatis satis faction and lie he looked proud and happy while he yet stood and gazed upon the child of his labors the door of his chamber opened and his father entered what are you not studying exclaimed mr winthrop as he noticed the boy standing in the middle of the floor samuel trembled when he be heard beard his fathers voice and be he turned pale with fea tea ha flat what is thisel said mr winthrop as ashe he caught sight of the curious construction on the floor this is the secret of your idleness now I 1 see how it is that you xou cannot master masten your udies studies you spend your time in making playhouses and fly pens ill see whether learn to attend to your lessons or not there As the father uttered gat that common injunction he be placed his foot upon the object of his displeasure the boy uttered a quick c cry cy y and sprang foward toward fo vard but too late the curious construction was crushed to 10 atlas atals the labor of long weeks was gone the lad iad ad gazed for a moment upon the mass of ot ruins and then coveris his face with his hands he burst into tears aint taint you ashamed said mr winthrop a great boy like you to spend your time on such clap traps and then cry about it because I 1 choose that you should attend to four your your studies now go out to the barn and help jerry sh shell sheli ell eli corn the boy was too full of grief to make any ex nations and without a word lie he left his chamer variations tia Ela but for long loag days afterwards he was sad and downhearted down hearted cS amuel samuel said mr winthrop one day after the spring had opened 1 I have seen mr young and he is willing willin to take you as an apprentice jerry and I 1 can get along on the farm and I 1 think the best tiling thing you can do is to learn the blacksmiths trade I 1 have given up all hope of ever making a surveyor out of you and if you bad a farm you would not know how to measure it oi 01 lay it out jerry will now soon be able to take my place as a surveyor and I 1 have already made arrangements for having laving him sworn and obtaining his commission but your trade is a food tood good one however and I 1 have no doubt you will be able abie to make a living att at 1 it mr young was a bracks blacksmith m ith in a neighboring town and he carried on quite an extensive bus business I 1 and moreover he had the reputation of being a fine man simuel was delighted with ills his fathers proposals and when he learned that mr young also carried on quite a large machine shop he was in acs ecstasies tanies his trunk was packed a good supply of clothes having been provided arid and after kissing his mother and sister and shaking hands with his father and brother he mounted the stage sta 9 e and set off for his new destination he found mr young all he could wish and w went ent into his bis business with an assiduity that surprised his master one evenin evening after samuel winthrop had been with his new master six months the latter came into the shop after all the journeymen beymen had quit work and gone home and 10 ur found nd the youth busily engaged in filing a piece of iron there was quite a number of pieces I 1 lying in on the bench by his side and some were curio curlo curiously isly riveted together and mixed fixed with springs and slides while others appeared not yet ready f for or its destined use mr young ascertained what the he young workman manawas was wag up boand to and he be not only encouraged him in his undertaking but he stood for tor half an hour and watched him at his bis work next day samuel winthrop was removed from the blacksmiths shop to the manchine shop I 1 samuel often visited his parent parents s at the he end of two years his father was not a little surprised when mr young informed him that samuel was the most useful hand in his employ time flew fast samuel was twenty one jeremiah had been free almost two years andee was one of the most accurate and trustworthy surveyors in the county mr winthrop looked upon his eldest son with pride and often expressed a wish that his other son could have been like him samuel had come home to visit his parents and mr young had bad come with him biro mr young said mr winthrop after the tea things had been cleared away that is a fine factory they have erected in your town 2 1 6 yes returned mr young here are three of them and they are doing a heavy business 11 1 I understand they have an extensive machine shop connected with the factories nom now if my boy sam isas is as good a workman as you say he is perhaps lie he might get a first rate r a te situation there mr young looked at samuel and smiled by the way continued the old farmer what is all this noise I 1 hear and see in the newspapers about those patent winthrop looms they tell teli me they go ahead of anything that ever was got up before you must ask y your youn our son about that returned mr young some of samuels business ehl eh what what my son some of sam the old man stopped short and gazed at hig hii son he was bewildered it could not be that h his I 1 g son gon his idle son ws the inventor of the g great ison lson eat power leom loom loom that had bad taken all the manufacturers b by Y surprise what do you meant mean heat he at length asked it is simply this father ather f that this loom is mine returned samuel with a look of conscious pride 11 1 I have invented it and have taken a patent right and have lately been offered ten thousand dollars dollar for the patent right in two adjoining states dont you remember that claptrap you crushed with your feet six years ago ago yes answered the old man whose eyes were bent on the he floor and over whose mind a new light seemed to be breaking well continued samuel that was almost a pattern of the very loom I 1 have set up in the factories though of course I 1 have made much alteration and improvement and aw there is room tor for or improvement yet and that was what you was study studying Dg when you used to fumble umble f about my loom so much said mrs winthro Win thron you are rigi right mother even then I 1 had conceived the idea I 1 have since carried out and tand that is why you could not understand rny ray mathematical trob frob problems problems lems 1 uttered mr winthrop pt ashe as he started from oin his chair and took the youth by the he hand samuel my son forgive me for the he harsh pes I 1 have used toward towards s you I 1 have been blind and now see how I 1 misunderstood you vou while I 1 thought you idle and careless 1 you were solving a philosophical problem that l J could never have comprehended forgive me samuel I 1 meant well welt enough but lacked judgment el and discrimination of course the old man had long before been forgiven for his harshness and his bis mind was open to a new lesson in human nature it was simply thi this Q different Din Diff erent minds have ilave different capacities mans mind can never de dris driven en to love that for which it has no taste first seek 0 o jinders tand the natural abilities and dispositions of children and then in your management of their education for after life govern yourself accordingly george combe the greatest moral philosopher of his day could hardly reckon in simple addition and colburn the arithmetician could not write out a commonplace address mozart was a genius in music and perhaps could have become a good weaver but the music of the loom would have fiade been more pleasant to the ear of cartwright than to his and more profitable to the world |