Show MI MISSING SIC O ONES ONE'S ES E'S VOCATION VOCATIONS I ItS aS S there a n more pitiful spectacle than that of a man in a business business busi husi- ness or profession sion for which ho he is not fitted 1 A curse curse urs fo follows the theman theman man who misses his vocation He Heis is like a q child at school in Ina a grade beyond his powers Dowers cowers Strive as he be 0 will the man maD who has missed his vocation cannot be happy cannot make mak headway He is forever depressed forever balked Bound tight by his n native tive limitations m h he heis heis is as helpless as as' as s Prometheus o on the crags of Caucasus Like P Prometheus Os he ho has hils aspired t too o high but in his sufferings ri gs he ho is Js not not heroic heroic like Prometheus but only o ly ridiculous like liko Icarus who flow flew into the tho face of tho the sun until the heat melted the waxen binges hinges of f hi his wings and nd he be tumbled tumbled- miserably finis mis the into water Every profession has its misfits R its pen uen en who hung hang on on Lut make no pr progress and who Vho are aro too dull to perc perceive ive or too proud to acknowledge that the they y are arc on th the wrong road They c crowd the tho anti rooms of news V newspaper newspaper news news- about paper offices office They hang the tho studios ef of artists They oc- oc cup ac p l iM imd- imd mojo o J frol from place to to- place never being i w i held eld lo long to o one p post st st. They h y sit M without 1 Ita in ID empty offices as doctors jt patients or or lawyers lawyer without practice v Some of those these misfits may blame their own conceit and faulting ambition ambition am ambition for their failure A A Amun Aman man mun I must d discover discover discover- scover his aptitudes and his limitations in time to adapt his big career career to them them- or it will ill come cometo come to to nothing Nature is inexorable when whim imposing punishments and aud she ne mH ne er er looks 8 i 11 a mistake But the majority of eJ are r such through tb the tho h of their p parents It is a failing of 0 5 many par parents to td w wish th to see their children somebody in the w world Honest working people there are ure 1 who feel that they thoy must have a lawyer lawyor a doctor an artist or a n statesman t in the tho family This Thib isan is an un h honorable de desire ire but should be tempered by common common sense Bense If there is b a boy in the family who shows marked talent it is well 2 enough to tl train in him for ono one of the Gt intellectual professions Some o e tJ iy-tJ parents however cannot distin- distin between a 1 dim dunce dunco co and und a r genius enius provi provided cd the dunce is th their h z 4 own off offspring They take taka a dull rI lad who might do very well ins ins' in s' s some subordinate b where Y r r r ho he would not bo be required to use his brain much an and they insist that ba he shall enter the II law J or i rt A I r.- r. 1 stud study medi medicine or or ta take e holy o orders or- or or 1 if ders dels or become an artist or pr ora a a a I In I n newspaper writer They drive t the i liph ui li-a li p py y boy to school school and Q college and then complain if if ho lie falls faUs to the foot of the tho class Nagged Nagged Nag Nag- ged by his is parents h ho toils toUs unwillingly unwillingly un un- un willingly through a curriculum c cHis His heart is not i in id hi his studies for h he was built to work with hISh his h hands and not with ith IJ his s h head Thus Thu pushed into a profession foreign t to his t tastes stes and beyond his abil- abil ties he falls falla flat ahil |