Show I J U Uncommon y r rs S a JOHN JOHNI I s ense o BLAKE HARD WORK TT Is ens easy to sit and watch others L work worl But we know of no employer employer em em- lorer who will 1 pay a you wages for doing It unless you ou know how to do dothe dothe dothe the work yourself and are re working hard bard at nt tho the Job of supervising It i. i It Is easy to travel cl about the world worldon on steamships and parlor cars very pleasant and profitable to the man with an Inquiring mind I But that Is a vacation occupation and unless yon you have earned the money to do It by hard work you will get little out of ot It i t It Is easiest of all nIl to feel teel sorry for tor yourself and to think that you ou haven't had a fair chance In life and that you Would Should have been a big success If It you hadn't met with so much Injustice and bad treatment l i But that will get you only unhappiness Iness which Is the least desirable thing In all the world i There arc are many things In life that well worth doing but none of them are arc easy I The first-class first fiction writer takes delight In his Job but he also works at nt It harder than any man who Is not a first class fiction writer ever dreams of at doing The great tenor finds pleasure In his Job and acid Incidentally in the money he gets from It But he lie works about six or sc en hours a da day at it now and find n 1 i earlier life he worked ten or twelve hours receiving far less pa pay for exactly as asgood asgood asgood good music If good Jobs were to be had fJ by little effort practically ever everybody would have a n good Job The reason that the they are so few and that so many of those few are arc not filled Is that all of them demand the hardest kind of hard work nut not only to get but to keep them Genius which 1 I. I said to know how v to do things before Lefore It is born has to work Just as ns hard as us mediocrity to gain and keep success Nothing you ou can think of that brings real reul rewards can be accomplished without with with- without out more work than most of us can cnn contemplate without getting tired at nt atthe atthe the mere thought of It I Yet people eople are arc doing it t right along and you OU seldom hear of nn any of them killing themselves In the ef effort ef- ef fort If IC you ou have hn made up your mind to todo todo do lo something unusual or to be somebody somebody some some- body body of at importance learn how to work twice as hard as ns you ever did before That Is only a first step The second is to think har hard If It you can cando cando cando do both and keep them up long enough you mn may land but remember you jou OU will have ha a lot of competition Even E hard work finds plenty of men mento mento to believe belle In and practice It It and most of them get what the they are after I by John flake Blake 0 n 0 |