Show for oradea 1 I engaged that man because he haa been in the business since ho was 15 years old said a merchant to his friend as a new employee passed out of the office say what you will about the adaptability of well grown people or the possibility of training a man to a certain occupation after he hair reached maturity all the same my experience does not coincide with that view of the case I 1 have been in business 30 years and I 1 find my best help among those who have made the occupation their life work to bo sure they get cranky sometimes and fall into ruts as we say but that is no worse than the opinionated obstinate tenacity of the man who has done business for himself and has an idea that ho understands business principles every occupation haa its traditions its dialect you may say its usages and necessities also and a very large item it is in its possibilities and while commercial affairs are all managed on the same general basis it is not easy to fit one occupation into the same grooves as another one runs in I 1 have an idea that this same theory holds good in trades 0 all sorts and that the mechanic is more valuable if ho acquired his deftness of hand while he was au apprentice in his teens an ordinary lifetime is not too long in which to leam all there is to know about business and the earlier one takes to the more likely he is all other things being equal to make a pronounced success of it new york ledger |