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Show A BOTCHER J. . A botchor Is a clumsy bungling workman. Ho la found In ovory trndo anil profession, and ho Is ono of tho direct causes or the high rost of living. A botched Job Is expensive at any prlco. Soonor or tutor it has to bo dono over. No ono can afford to koop vory long lu Ms employ a man who does not take pains to do his work neatly, thoronghl and wo 1 Wo recentl) wntched a boy In ru act of blacking his shoos II0 wnu particular about getting a nigj, ,,0l ish on tho toes. Tho heels got no blacking at all, not oen u rub of tho brush. It Is protty Bf.fo to predict thnt n .boy who forms tho hablu of shining half hg Bi,oes, and slighting tho other hulf wl Krow up t0 hu ,, botcher in other kinds of work. Wo know n man who always blnckb tho heels of. his shoes first. I Bs hh father Insisted on hl doing li that way wjeii he was boy It ls n a hnblt with him. Uowovor pressed foretime ho Is, having n B pollBhed the heels ho never slights the fronts of his shoes. There Is always tlmo for the'Jfoes!'" Slml'hr' characteristics are found In 'everything ho timlcr take's to' do." He Ik Just as pulnstak Ing In piling tip wood lu the coilai fas ho 'Is In' the making of a mnhog ah'y' "sideboard; Tho habit" of painstaking l a good financial' Investment. It must he found In 'eVery genius It ought to have n place In every man's life who ther or' not ho lB engaged In work that is open. to, inspection. He who when n- boy prnctlces doing to n finish fin-ish every Job,' ho undertakes and not slighting part of It because lt is more or less concealed, will find, when he has grown to manhood that he hnB es enped tho curse which falls on some workmen, namely of being a botcher. Exchange.- |