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Don't Be A Loafer

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
September
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Young man, pay attention! Don't be a loufer - don't keep a loafer's oompauy and don't hang around loatiiig places. Hetter go to work and do somctliing. and be of s. une use to the world - do good and makc the world the better for yonr having lived n H, tlian sit around on dry goods boxea day after day, whittling or talking and idliiiír your time away, or to stand on or abüut the atreet corners with your Imnds in your pockets - better for your own health and prospecta. Yod will be thought iixi of, pcople will respect you- aye and more - they will honor you. So, bustle about - be llvely and have some life about you - do something for yourself. What if your father i ricli ? He may meet with some niisfortiine and fail, and you be oblifed to work; then yon will moiini for not having "broke yourself in" when you had the opportunity. Go to work and learn a trade, if yon have nonealready, and stick tu it - yon will never regrel it- it will come handy somc day oven if you do not need it now. If you are poor and can not aflbrd to take tlie time to learn a trade, work anyhow, work at something - anything that is respectable, and all work that is honest and virtuous is respectablc. Many a poor phypician lias procured a real patiënt by riding after an imaginary one; a quire of paper, tied with a red tape, under the arm of a poor but honest, llvely and energetic lawyer may procure him his first case and nmke for him his fortune in tliis world. Ilnvcsomeget-up-and-getitiveness to you. "To him thal liath shall it be given." Have some energy about you. If there is anythlng that is abominable in the light not only of liumanity, but, also the Almighty, it is a loafer. A loafer s, more or less of tlie time, gettig himself or somebody else luto trouble, for be seems to have nothiug else to do (and we don't bclieve de has, or, if he has, li ¦ don't do il) thüii lo be nlwayg nieddling or mixini; in with otber people's allairs, niaking their business bis, and ga.ing at and ultermg obscene and un-called-for speeches about every lady (and oftimes insulting theni) wbose misíortune it is to pass him. He is a nuisance generally, not only to mankind at líirge, but iudividually and also to bimself. He is a hinderance to the advancement and progressiveness of anj' city, town or hamlet. So, taking it all in all, a loafer is better off out of the world than in it, and the world is better off without than with him. Loafers are, figuratively speaking, a drug in the inaiket now-a-days, and the more of our boys and young men who can be induced to work and do something for themselves, and be somebody, the better it will be for themselves and the welfare of the nation. Tlierefore, we say, pay attention and don't be dreaming and complaining, but keep lm y at somethingor another, amount to something in tlie world, ainl wateb your chance to earn an honest dollar and learn to take care of yonwelf, and then, if you are sober, economical and attentive to business while you are young, have a chance and are able tn wrak. ytna have something i ,"k"are of yoursclf mt ¦¦-¦ „---- ..? old, reeene ana u..vbio tn work. Youiif; man, pay nttention; go to work, don't be a loqflsr, and ahvays remember tbat anything that Is worth doing at all is worth dolng well, tor "Handsome is that handsome does." Be industrious, températe in all things and don't haf, boys, don't loa f, but fío to work and achieve something in the world - ;o to school and learn something, 'and get an educstlotl and tityonrself for a teacher, doctor, lawyer or any lionorable profcssion you may see tit to follow, and whin, at the close of life, you look back iiH)n your past career, it will be with just pride and pleasure.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News