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Show THE YOUNG MAN'S SIDE. There died recently in Chicago a snae-cessful snae-cessful merchant, who" in the long course of a busy life never forgot that he had been a boy. "In the whole world," he often said, "there is no one else equal to a fine, strong, clean young man except a fine; strong, clean young woman." . He not only believed that, but he acted on his belief. So it happened that no busipess was ever so pressing that he had not time, when he found -a youth of the kind dep:ri bed, to Geek employment for him in his'own office or with some- acquaintance:.' "Business is a"little' slack' just now," the acquaintaffCe-svould sometimes say. "I'm afraid I -cannot find' room for another an-other man one who has- no experience." expe-rience." "- :' '".-'.; "Don't tell me you are going to let this opportunity go by," the other would interrupt. "Why, you efcn't afford af-ford to. Room for him? AY ho a.skeil you to make room for him? Oivo him a chance.. He'll make his own room. Here's a young man do you realize what thie means? One of the noblest creatures in the world. Not only a man like you and me, but young, with ail the world before him. He offers to give you his whole power, to come into your business and give you his God- given intelligence in mastering and improving im-proving it. Y'ou are asked to accept a favor and if you don't some more enterprising en-terprising rival will. Take him while you can get him; you may not have another chance." . Boys who deserve such introductions are not so., rare as Js sometimes thought. This man had a faculty of finding them and for bringing out by stimulating words the very best in them. And he brought home to many employers besides himself the fact that a boy seeking work, if he be the right kind of a boy, is offering in his manly ambition something for which the money paid it in no fviisp a return. |
