Show I 1 1 The American Boy vr I. T I 0 BY THOMAS S v T laet- laet after laet-after after much weariness or of AT A mind and spirit the American bo boy has a job He is sixteen en years cars old and has been taken Into the thc cloak and suit trade His first work vork in to button the shirtwaists on the models In the evening of the thc somebody some bod body sa says s 's to him Well Veil Reginald how do you OU like Jlko your job 1 Oh h it its it's all aU r right fh f for r a st st. start t Regi RegI- I answers but they ey cowL don't Know how to run ron the business This shows that Reginald must have havea a 3 wonderful to be able to see sec so much by the end nd of or the thc first day In one style and another there are arc probably millions of ot Reginalds egin In all atI kinds of business uin After Atter one da day on the job they are convinced that the firm do does not know how to to rl run th the business wish wih R Godspeed Godspeed God God- Godspeed Well let Jet us Reginald speed and leave his case caso in his own hands hand We want to learn Jear w what at the American bo boy must do io to advance from Crom his first Job I IMan Many Man young men who enter a new business declare at least to themselves themselves themselves them them- selves that it needs to be reorganized The young young- man man being a little troubled with his sight sight sight- fails tails to see that HE HEIs HEIs HEIs Is the proposition to to be reorganized This leads us to Fact No 1 1 When the American bo boy gets into business his first care must be bo beto beto boto to learn his own job so thoroughly that he I 1 Is as sure of it as he is of the tho spelling of oC his own name Then we can set out after Fact No 2 2 Ho He must bo be keen about work This means he must hunger for tor work and thirst for tor work worl ork look for work and arni beg for or work He must keep everlastingly at work He must realize that aD any job to which ho is assigned In th the b beginning f could be done doie by other boys bos There Thero I la Is great competition Outside the door are U these ise thousands waiting t for tor his pl puce place ce Hence Honce ho must be so su industrious that he gets ets acquainted with Fact o. o 3 3 He must specialize his job until he gets it down so fine that very verr few tew If it any of the waiting outside can do it as well as he can To succeed in In In- bringing himself to this point of ot excellence the American boy will discover that some qualities call called d comm common ones will be his Ills present ever e help and maln mainstay t To memorize these so that he lie can say them as promptly ns as a brakeman calls the names of ot the stations will Ul constitute constitute tute tuto Fact No 4 t. 4 Th The Tho great helps in beginning business are industry promptness at attention at- at appearance habits manners and speech By the time the American bo boy has tese to four r facts fach l In regular working order there will not be one person waiting out on tl the sidewalk who c could uld po possibly do h his j job b the c way war he has learned to o do it himself He is then master of ot the situation What next Fact No o. o 5 5 5 G. G Ho He 0 can can now do his work so masterfully mas mae that it is too easy for him He wants something ng harder something that taxes his mind takes more out or of hl him and l d puts more mare more into him He e applies s then t for r a harder job Does he heget get Iet It Having made himself mt master tor of one ono kind of ot work the tho chances arc are that he will have discovered va ways waS s and means means' for getting what he wants be because because because be- be cause of ot Fact Nor No 6 6 Bu Business Busine men men are very ver slow to toua let ua anyone nc gO wh who has proved himself himsel a R hustling thoughtful though ul efficient work- work er Of cour course e It d depends a n little tittle on the business man mali but not much Corfe for Cor fe few of t them are so o foolish Coolish as to dismiss dismiss dis dis- dis miss one who shows the qualities we have hav presented here hero to the American boy Efficient J is the rarest thin thing in the thc business Many positions are arf COnstantly open some of them with thousands ands of dollars salary salar waiting waiting wait watt ing r for r a n man to ta to come along whose creed of t rk f that expressed b by the facts we e have ave over d. d Any and arid succeed An t boy b y Can S keep on advancing I who hO makes l up P his hi I mind 1 i I. I t 1 Tu re Jet get ot skill lIi and knowledge out I of all aB the work worl he dries 2 2 To work nork industriously ly 3 To do his work so gO well weB tt that no noone one can do tic It 11 bettor better 4 t. 4 To I keep eop l e ever r before him the common helps Industry promptness attention ap- ap manners manners and speech ch Th Then n everything e ho wants will be begin begin boKin bo- bo gin Kin to move toward him not him not toward the theman man nailing ailing on th the tho sidewalk |