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Show VOLUME MI. BOYS AND SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUARY 15. 1E92. TRADES. of the public and the puhlic is the other things tbat are not so they will most exacting taskmakers. not only disbelieve us when we do tell Boys the trades are offering the true. Children don't easily forget the bes1 n ucemensto the thirgs. It is not a good thing to tell a by average young man. This assertion is little boy that he can go to town tbe proven by the fact that practical next time you go unless you intend to mechanical schools schools where let him go. "If you want a child to go younjr men are taught in the most in the right way mo that way yourself prait:cal and scientific way all he sometimes." various mechanical trades are springIf more teaching was done bv exing up in various parts of the country. ample, the lessons taught would be Let children have Tnee schools are intended to satisfy more lasting. 4 demand for skilled workmen; such money and spend it if you expect them are needed badly, and they will he well to learn the value of it. Taey can not paid when they are competent to rend learn how to take care of money unless er efficient service. So don't fall to they have money. Some things can weigh all these matters wben you sit b st be learned by practice. Let a down to consider what you shall make child do soineihing that is worth doles and he will take an interest in your your life work. All the horest labor is honorable in work. Send him to do business tbat tbe sight of God; and te who does be can do Just as well as you can and skilfully and well bis work in the shop he wiil take tome rtsponsibility and er factory will at last rrceive cqnal whn it become ntcesaryfor him to commendation with him who heals our make investments for himself he will to-da- j I N CONVERSATION withaprom-t- g iuent man in a large city some time ago he mide sume statements that startled me and have kept me think-- l ng ever since, and tbe more I think of it tbe more I am inclined to think that h is right. He said that be could name for me fifty young men within a few squares of his place of business who had learned bookkeeping who were out ol a place and would Jump at a ) )b paying six or eight dollars a week. He said he cou'd pnict out to me scores of vnung doctors, lawyers, typewriters and stenographers who were scarcely earning board and clothes. On the other hand he assured me tbat build ers could not get enough carpenters at and three dollars two and one-ral- f a day; that bricklayers commanded from three to six dollars; that while mec'ianics and artisans of all kii-dwere piid god wages for sbort hours with steady work, yet the number of American mechanics is by far too small, making it necessary to bring thousands of foreign mechanics and artisans into the country to fill up the rank?. Boy, ibink of all this before you decide upon jour life work. In the learned professions the rtandard has been so raised that it is a tremendous strain to get in, besides enormous expense, and when the competition is so keen that you are lucky if you gain nnre thin a compe'ence. Besides all this, these professions are a drudgery their hours are every hour of the NUMBER 8 y fr sick. Sel. s CHILDREN. yvrLL PEOPLE, Adam and Eve i excepted, were children once, that are novno and mny women were men ard better children than we can find We know all cbildem are to-da- y. not as gool as they rateht fef but are they not about as good as we could exptct tliem to be? When a child knocks iis head agiinst a chair and we ttll V to take a stick and whip the chair and hundreds of things of this kind we are teaching it something that r; twenty-fouin them you may enjoy will do it iio good. If we tel' childern no privacy that may not at any moment that "The black man will catch them," tits broken in upon, you are the slaves "There is a bear in tbe woods" and know bow o proceed. Djn't ixpect a boy to drive a nail with a stick of wood and blame him if he don't do a good job If you cxptct a boy to chop wood let him have an axe that is good enough for a man to chop witb. It need not be as large as a roan's axe but A boy should it shculd be as shun . not be txptcled to pitch hay with a forked stick or tfii: post bolts with a hoe. As a mlea ho des not like to vvrk unless lie has "Liethirg to work wiiii and have e u men who set med to (m! to sam way. Make home iMrsc ive and ph asant, it need not be i X'lhVhgf nt. Hut this 1 must say, of all places y. ur children limy visit or ca'l, Hake Home the imwt pleasant ami happy tbe ". II. II. sweetest and iK'st of them a I.'' In N li gister. |