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How To Get On In Life

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
January
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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A young mal) writos lo us tiiit he. has Vuil ixt yfeáfs' o:;.. ■riiMii-f, we suppose os clerk or book-kuepnr, 8urt.Bg Wbiöü timo the siiiii toiil of 7", which, 11. Tic' wishE9 ti) Ú somo growinj ivrn and grow up with i' II i , -ví-l.-itly sinooro, and his let! :í lio is not deficiënt in abil-' Wo therer to him pliiinly tlitit success iu liíe do ,v:iv. No man finda a ,y ólisnise, nor can ho " grow " into a sí.m.1 ■ of píosjJerity nnn:ly liy planftig hiíiisolf in a íVesh, virgin soil. V,v. -. vfi-.iiiir iu lifc -worth having ig iu' acquired througli severo If-deaial. It is a great ínistokfr'to uppose tii .1 tho i'.iüures qf nspiootáe from oáverée surrounding CircHtTóatftiibed h;ivo much do with nmtírial pro?pcri(-y than is generally snpposed. Pavoritig condifcwmamay b :h; aequisitiou of ■', hut the siiii:c appliciitioii -with nial will j:;vu:uitoo the final rcsult Utiong. 'Diere are pxcepbiona ofooursc; Imt tliis is the rule. A uan wit' out a t'.miily, w!io h is be n tcrilS"ork for ten yous. aiM has iud up bat $75, would íiot " grow up " botter, even imid tho stimnlus of that wwaderf ifl activity which narks tli ■.■ youth of a thriving town. Tho lücrotioii i ■ upon a man who waits to grow up by out-A-anl helps, is ony tho oyerlayiog ras and cankor that ■■■ vitáis. ïho truo growth is !iiüli roines from within, and emi;k -ilty in tño eai-nest cffort. tx yttrutg moa mako tho ' which our correspondent bsfid too Iwrgo :i jiropor-ioTi ot' th for :ifi--Ti i:i-i ; :"■■■ i i ■ ! i , 1 _ü-i -i -. ■. i .t' tbe !i:is"r appoifcea. Pme slothes, jewlry, oigan, liars huntin. and otii.r eostly ur nuioua uauiis, waste no mcuiismera■ortion of thoir annual incbme. We hcard a man spoken of the otlvrdny as wbo htvd been i-fiiiM.vk.ably "lucky " in MtabUshing himself in a oorofortable i-wit-, and that was tli! m]y word nsotl to distinguisli between liim m atl assoliaie -ivlio had moro brilliant taK-iifs, Imt ailcd of Bnccess.fThere waino lucfe intho natter, 6or w know them both. They oth were married, and both rere witliout-ehildren, and eaoh of tbeto ontering ipOB a sal.i iv of $1,000 per imumn, went .bo't tho samo time to look for board in irooklyn. " The unfortunato man " took oard for himself au l wir'o at $20 a weok, whinh !i! sai.l was the oheap t at which ie conld gota oom ■■ room in a honso. Tha ': lucky" man ooked f oi' somo lixaé, until ha found ilean, hoalthy quartora in a tliird-story ■oom, at $7 a week for the patr, hk wifo . 0 do hor own sweeping and make hor own bed, He lived within his ineome, ind laid up money from t'io start; tho otlier ran into debt nnd booamo embarfrdm tho liour. Thore is nö secrot u such histories ; ho who rans lasay retid hem. If any one asstraies th.it the noctis toenjoy iifo agwa-g, and hat thi; acquisition of an netate. tliü ound itiuu of which iilaiil in i-arly solfi, umi tho structure built in pátterrt "il, with the same provalent spii-it ever . is mi ignoble ambiticm, we shftli not argue Wie case. Bul . tint . ,, uüd surely in no othcr n'jy, anét U" 1 man, after knowing wlmt i.t will oost, viil not py llio prioe for it, he should not grumble at tho tatos, muriuur afc a tUsoriminating Providenco.

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Old News
Michigan Argus