| Show VALUE OF A TRADE A GOOD education is of great value but often in a practical or pecuniary sense a trade is probably more so the fact that college graduates make excellent street car drivers is a staple groundwork for 1 jokes and the observation that lew few collegians are found among successful journalists is constantly reiterated and is significant our age makes the practical a secondary consideration in the education of the youth the following remarks by a master car repairer pal contain suggestions borhy of being thoughtfully considered by par ants who may be hesitating about deciding whether to send their sons son g to college or have davs them taught a good trade 1 have had some very intelligent men at work in the yard c cleaning cars 1 men who have been educated at oxford cambridge yale and harvard who have held high and responsible positions in banks and well known commercial houses there was one time that I 1 could have supplied a man for any profession or trade from a minister of the gospel to a nod hod carrier N I 1 I 1 had one graduate of a european versley cleaning cars for a 3 bear ear he afterward staught a country school studied law aud and is now admitted to practice with a good prospect prost of eulan ent success IR IB his bis prole r hsiou an otner car cleaner is FI L prominent lawyer he was wa a first rate car cleaner I 1 had three ministers of the gospel working for or we me at one time and they ate aie all bif loins doing well in their profession now I 1 am compelled to refuse woi k continually to men whom mis fortune has reduced to such straits that they are ar willing to tit perform any honest labor however mental menial no I 1 do not recollect that I 1 ever employed a newspaper man to clean cars I 1 wisdom sugi suggests ests that a child be first taught such knowledge as its welfare and happiness first demand dunles life opulence is assured it Is well to see every child is put in possession 0 of such huch knowledge and skill as wilt will insure future elf support such other accomplishments as time and opportunity afford may be added the first the luxuries afterwards is as good a motto in the preparation of children for the battle of efte as in any other branch of econ |
