Getting a Living

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 7, 17 January 1884, Page 3

Getting a Living

♦> Of modes of making a living thei-p must be as good a proportion as ever there wap. The national wealth increases even faste* 'h in the national numbers, and with he .atioual wealth the occupations of the nation. here are twenty things to b< done where there were teu, if only the fathers worrying about their sons knew what they were. They do not know, as a rule, and are fretting, not because wjiys of acquiring livelihood are fewer, but because three or four ways have attracted too many competitors. The number of positions on the railway system, for example, which educated men could hold without repulsion must be greater than that of all (hepositions open fifty years ago to the Bar. The idea of over-stocking is, we suspect, much more a product of anxious ignorance than or the actual condition of things. As to education being a drawback, that has beeu said for a hundred years, and is no more true than it was at first. No education will qualify^ the incompetent, and the competent are disciplined by the old method as well as by any other. — •Spectator.