| Show I TALES OF CHILDHOOD I 1 By DR LOYAL CRANE WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO TOMAKE TOMAKE TOMAKE MAKE OF YOUR BOY When hen Herman Hennan Ludwig was a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man It had been his greatest ambition to become a Judge The great dust dusty tomes of law la and the austere y of the bench and bar had always fired his youthful imagination But unfortunately a legal education education tion was not so easily obtained when Herman Hennan Ludwig was a young man as it is today and an unkind Fate intervened to prevent his ob obtaining ob- ob taming the legal education he had so ardently desired Toda Today Herr Ludwig is 40 married and reasonably prosperous All AU his working years years have ha been spent Inthe in inthe inthe the receiving office of a great Ireat Importing importing im Im- porting house He lie has hag neither hat hated d nor enjoyed d his work He lie has merely performed it that he and his might eat and sleep in peace The love lo of law though burning low all these years stilT still smolders in his breast Hermans Herman's son Ernest is 17 17 and just out of ot hi high h school HIs Hig father is enthusiastically planning to send him to law school But oddly enough the boy shares none of his fathers father's enthusiasm for the law v Not that he is particularly interested in anything else for he He Is simply indifferent to the law As a matter of fact he doesn't really know yet just what he would like to b be Subservient to a somewhat domIneerIng domineering domineering domi domI- pater however Ernest has hal duly matriculated d in law school and is carrying on with a stolid indifference that reminds one for all the world of the senior Lud- Lud wigs wig's attitude toward toward the Import business Six years have rolled b by and Ernest is now 23 But though he possesses possess s the degree of LL.B. and a state license to practice law he is not engaged in the pursuit of that profession Instead he is selling automobiles and wishing that he were an automotive engineer AI And d dIt It if he can r resist Cupids Cupid's wll wiles s for yet et 1 another year or 01 more he may like enough become one But Dut whether or not he succeeds succeeds' in this latest venture it remains safe to say that his years in law school while perhaps not described as wasted might well have been spent to better advantage had his parents simply sent him off orf to school to browse among the learned professions until he should have found the field where for hUn him work was play and play was work For Tor you cannot make your child a lawyer or a doctor an engineer ora or a business man All you ou can can do do isto isto is isto to educate him And educate literally translated out of the origInal original original inal Latin means to draw out It is a wise vise parent who carefully observes his childs child's interests and tendencies and at each stage in his development places before him the opportunities to effectively develop I Ithe the most useful and worthy of oC these I I traits as they appear For those I I qualities of mind which are essential essential essen essen- I essen to success in any given field of human endeavor can no more be superimposed upon an individual from without than can blue eyes or ora ora ora a dimpled chin Both alike are gifts of the gods who preside over the wanderings of the stork Copyright 1925 by the McClure New Newspaper S Syndicate |
