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Show CAREERS FOR CHILDREN BY EDNA EGAN. pgij NE of the most pitiful things in I (J j tho world is to see a man or JS-SiJ woman wasting his of her life's energy on a work for which he or she is totally unsuited. It is even worse if tho person in question has a decided talent in another direction. direc-tion. There are thousands of such beings, who are at the present moment devoting their best efforts to a work totally uncongenial to them, in which they will never be more than mediocrities, medi-ocrities, whereas had they been allowed allow-ed to follow their natural bent they might have acquired real distinction, to say nothing of real happiness. Wno Is to blame in such cases' Whose Is tho fault for misplacing a worker in an entirely unsuitable field? ' Sometimes circumstances are respon-1 respon-1 slble. When poverty forces, a man Is ! usually only too glad to obtain any kind of employment, whether it ap- peals to his own personal tastes or not. We can only sympathize when clr- cumstances are responsible. But quito often it is not tho fault of circum- stances, but rather of the parents. In 5 how many instances parents bring up their boys and girls with their futuro J all laid out for them. 5 Mothers, do not try to coerce or in- fiuenco your children into any follow-' follow-' ing of your own choice, for you will only make them unhappy and will pre- - vent them from ever attaining real success. Success is hard enough to r reach under any circumstances, and in 3 order to do so one must havo one's ' wholo heart and soul in the work. Do not make up your mind that your " boy must bo a lawyer or your daugh- ter an artist, for you will only doom r them to unhappiness and yourself to disappointment. How can any one per-e per-e son map out the entire future life of " any other being, oven if there does ex-3 ex-3 1st a parental relation between them? 6 Boys and girls, too arc placed in 0 positions where every natural inclina-' inclina-' tion is offended. The girl whoso trend 1 is very practical is trained as a mu- - siclan, while the boy who would havo o attained famo as an artist is doomed to '- be a very poor lawyer because tho o parents so ordained. II It is far bettor, mothers, to let na-l na-l turo take its course. You will find '- just what their tastes are, apd you can a let them decldo their future according-e according-e ly. Of course, some youngsters do not i- display any particular aptitude for any if one thing. In such a case you can bc-a bc-a gin talking a career over with them when they are in school. But don't bo so foolish and so misguided as to trj to forco your'chlldren into fields abso lutely opposed to their natural incllna, tions. |