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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE . it It 19 a tragedy to miss your calling I It means going through life dragging j a ball and chain There Is no bigger j question that comes our way than that j which has to do with selecting the j business In which we are to spend a life-time To make a mistake means failure and worse. It means prison. It means Irksome conflncnu-nt instead of congenial con-genial occupation. I had stepped Into a cobbler's shop for a trifling purchase. A man was working at a machine for halfsollngl shoes. He attracted my attention. "Do you like your work?" I asked j "I hate It," he cald with a tone that was lemded with disgust "Suppose you could do th- thing you lovo best what would it be?" Instantly his face was. transfigured "Music'" he said "Music' "Mu-sic' I worship It'" Poor fellow: With the soul of a musician, he was wearing out life men-i ding shoes. Me probably would not i have distinguished himself as a IQUSl-l clan. He was stamped for mediocrity. I But life Is not a chase after fame. He would at least have been able to spend his life doing th- thing he loved. Life Is too short to do anything else One should think of something besides be-sides wages in deciding his calling Big wages can be no compensation for stifling the best that is in you. Tho world Is full of people who have missed mis-sed their calling. Ordinarily the thins: one loves to do Is the thing he is likely to do best. Nature does not He. An appetite that has not yet been perverted is a good guide Of course one cannot always Control circumstances, but usually it Is not circumstances, but the lure of quick success, that bribes us to play false to the best. One has sold his birthright for a mess of pottage who sacrifices self-expression self-expression for a living. One must live, but existence Is not living Give tho music a chance. Anything Is drudgery that you hate but drudgery drud-gery becomes dllne when one loves his work. |