| Show CHOOSING A CALLING C. 1 J Chicago Chronicle No matter how much or how little talent talen a man may have the first t requisite to his success in life Is the choice of a calling There 1 Is 15 no wa way of ascertaining how many men out of or 1000 miss their calling but apparently the world Is almost full of square men in round holes and anda a n. large lare proportion of the manhood of the raco race Is misdirected and practically thrown away avay The Tho reason of this tills Is that there is nothing nothing more for a young man or for his parents and friends to todo todo do 10 than to tell lell what he Is made for and what he should devote his life to Take Talc tho the young man himself first T r and he has hns two obstacles to deal with wilh In the tl e first place his best talent may maybo ma bo be slowest of all his powers to lo de de- IC- IC cloP Some Soma parts of his bod body grow faster than other parts and It Is so 6 with his mental faculties Most fre- fre his master masler p passion ston will show Itself from Infancy but In man many cases ho bc reaches manhood before he develops develops de dc- de- de the gifts girLs or trails traits which mark maik markout out his life work J In the second place self self-l knowl self edge is tho the last faculty that an any human hu- hu man being develops Durin childhood childhood child child- hood and an carl early manhood when ho he hoj self knowledge to determine j what occupation to follow he lie knows knovs Y absolutely nothing about himself In Indeed In- In n- n J. J deed a man Is fortunate If by the L time he is gray gra h headed haded ho be understands understands understands under under- stands stands his strong and his weak points he can do o and what J. j and knows what he can cnn not do o. o f- f r 1 l. l Of or course these two considerations 1 I it also for a young oung j.- j. make mako rents to advise an and direct mans man's 1 parents i seen his tastes and have havo seen een They The him inclinations change several times al- al know but they do not r- r and they r ready ady several times Umes more change may Instincts will fj 1 t Sometimes a n youths youth's and mislead those d him aright aught I lead k-ad the control contro of him It Is hi wh who have painter that his related rallied of or a famous 1 In boyhood to obtain I choice led him studio and in an at artists artist's lists list's him a that the artist after watching that him to limit his Jl advised while the colors to o grinding lion tion i- i r fO for the large largo numbe num- num accounts ThI This who men successful r eminently ot of be her one on l change from f rom and l t wrong tart start before thc they achieve calling ng to o another of or course not un IJ I- I I fIlls IMS is Access S soldiers J- J Lee Lec were and Grant Gram r 1 versal ersa find and Hawthorne inventor Fu 1 ton an 1111 Necess NecessitY I ty an fl from or of follow follow- I d them the denied e r r L Ing lug their bent hent at times timeR but hut tho they thoy never neve for a moment doubted what they were made for Cor and what they had a n. pas slon for fOl Possibly this Is the case with most mos men who achieve success an and fame but not with all Everett and Emerson Emerson Emerson Emer Emer- son believed until they the reached mature mature mature ma ma- ture manhood that they were ere cut ou out tor lor ministers Collyer that he was a aborn born blacksmith Garfield that h he would make his mark marlc as a t carpenter Jackson that saddler was hl his forte Johnson that ho he was a predestined tailor Irving that ho he would shine a atho at atthe th the tho e bar antI and Washington that his mission mis mis- slon sion was that of a surveyor or Some Som great men have havo gone from flom rein one callIng callin calling call call- in ing to another several se times rIme and acquired acquired ac ac- ac- ac a a. reputation for Instability and general before they tho struck the gait that made them fain fam- ous This makes It Jl an exceedingly perplexing per per- problem for a young oung man to determine what he lie will do and the perplexity Is tenfold greater now than thai it was fifty years ears ago There were hundreds of years before that time luring during which the leading trades and professions were stable and almost stationary but Lut within one or two generations owing to the ravages o ot of inventions an and ard saving labor-saving machinery machin el cry ery they have all either disappeared or been transformed There Is scarcely scarce scarce- 1 ly a a. business that a young man can cantale take tale up toda today which lOa may not become ob obsolete olete in a few years In fact the only thing that thaI is permanent permanent permanent per per- manent is knowledge ge The time will wm never come when it will not help a aman aman man in the race ace of ot life to be acq acquainted acquaint ed with mathematics physics history history his his- tory fory geography physiology chemistry chemistry chemis chemis- tr try an and manual training Unless he lie knows something of these sciences h he ma may be unable to discover cr what he lie is made for or 01 to do O it after he discovers ers it t. t Beyond this this such such Is the present pres pies ent nt condition of the arts manufactures manufactures tures science and politics a politics a young oung man is literally compelled to be he an opportunist That Is Is he must do what ho can until he can do o something dif different dif dif- lf- lf ferent and better belter If he lie Is Js Industrious sober obel economical and watchful a kind Providence will little by little direct him aright |
