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Show w The world Is full of good farmers spoiled In poor lawyers, and excellent architects wasting good brain Usauo with Indifforcnt preaching, and line draymen trying to do newspaper work. A little wisdom at the beginning would have started them right. And, started right, they would have gones right all tho way through. i i DONT WORRY ABOUT THE BOY Maybe the boy Is a little disappointing. disappoint-ing. Maybe1, ho doesn't care to go to school, will not read, and has a disinclination dis-inclination to-work with any persistency persis-tency and earnestness at any occupation. occupa-tion. Maybe you . havo a notion that ho 1b growing up in idleness, and will be a worthless man because he Is a careless boy.' " It doe8"nbt follow. Many a man,' declares the. Sun, has waited till nearly near-ly thirty before really catching step with his opportunity, and yet made a pronounced success of his life, if the boy Iceeps clean, he is never in much danger. ' Keep him so, keep him as nearly interested as you can. Do not get tho notlon that you have not tune. For there is no one thing on all the earth of more importance to you than tho care and guidance of the youth that has been entrusted to your chargo. Find out what ho wants to do, it you can. Usually he has a notion ot some sort Not all of them have, but that is usually the case. Encouraging him when you have found it. Help him along that-line as much as you can. No matter if you can't give him all he thinks he wants. Tho main thing is to make it. clear to him you aro willing. ' That you are interested In what interests him. When he gets ready he will start It is better ot course if ho does not waste any time.- Life is short enough at best. And If ono takes advantage of every minute of It one will nave trouble enough winning success In llfo. But it Is doubtful if you gain anything for yourself or for the boy hurrying lilm to an unformed choice. More lives havo been shortened ot their possibility by an unhappy and unfortunate selection than in waiting. |