Show tiie TUB YOUNG mans MAKS LEi lel ledgure LEISURE guri gURE youn mani danl after the duties of the day are over how do ell ril you on spend your PI evenings edings when business is dull duli and leaves at youir oar our disposal ifil hours what disposition do you make of them I 1 have known and no now how w know many I 1 oung young met men who if they devoted to any or literary or professional pursuits pur par suits tha time mile they spend in games of chance and loun lounging ve ilg tig in bed led might rise to any eminence you yon hivo hive all read of the sextons sex tons son who became a flae fine astronomer by spending spent ting a short time every evening in gazing at the stars after ringi ringing ng the bell for nine sir william phipps who at the agn age of 45 had it ad attained the order of knighthood and the office of high hi h sheriff of new england and governor of massachusetts learned to read react and write after his year of a ship carpenter in boston william gifford the great editor of the th e quarterly was an apprentice to a shoemaker and spent his leisure hours in study and because he had neither pen nor paper slate nor berwith pencil 1 he wrought out 11 his is problems on smooth leather with a blunt awl david duvid rittenhouse Ritten house housa the american astronomer when a plowboy plow boy was observed obier ved to have covered his plow and fences with figures and calculations james ferguson feruson fer the gr great cit eit astronomer learned learn edelo edlio to read road W d by himself and mastered the elements of astronomy while hiie hile a shepherds shepherd 3 boy in the fields b by y ni night h t and perhaps it is not too much to siy say that thit if the hours wasted in idie jdie idle company in vain conversation at the tavern were only spent in the pursuit of useful knowledge the dullest apprentice in any of our shops might become an intelligent member of society and a fit person hon bon for most of our civil offices ily isy B y such stich a 1 course the rough covering of many a youth is laid aside and ard their ideas instead of being confined to local subjects and range the wide fields of creati creation or an and other stars from among the young men of this city might be added to the list of worthies that are gilding our country with bri bright ah t yet mellow light dr murray |