PROUD OF ONE'S WORK.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 269, 2 June 1888, Page 4

PROUD OF ONE'S WORK.

There is a pardonable exhibition of pride sometimes on the part of the man who, after expenditure of time, thought, an I manual labour, burns out a piece of wotU -which shall henceforth be for useful service or a thing of beauty. This was the toward which he aimed, and a*> lie put- the finishing touch upon the aitiele eio it finally leave? his hand;-, he thinks how the expenditure of thought and labour rigrhtly carried out impro\es or should im prove" everything ; and he i*- willing that his fellow 'men ' should >co how (he wiw material ha? been impro\ed ai>d made valuable under his hand.-. Tnerc i-> one trade where Ihe 01 dei is re\ eised and w hei c the end deigned is to spoil completely the material worked upon. We cannot bettci speak of it than by using thfword^ oi .1. B. (lough :—: — The "tailor, w hen lie ha* finished a now coat, place? it w hero it miy been seen by the greatest number of customer: when the shoemaker has finished a h'rst-el i-*- pair of boots, he places them in his window, because the exhibition tend- to increase hifcrade. With the liquoi -seller it i« quiti different. He is ashamed of hi- tinished work. With him the raw matei ial is alw .n - worth more than the tuu-hed aitieh. Were he to exhibit, that, he would 10-o hitrade. No wondei he it a«hamcd to exhibit his work. A truthful tign-boaid would read: "Delirium trenien-, fe\er, di-ea-e, pauperism, crime, redne** ot ey;-, w mindwithout cause, vnetchedno-:-, dcs-paii and death, for sale here." The following -uierdote, culled tiom the A'h'Di't Join nnl, puts the aigumcnt in a practical form :—: — A few da\s*ago whey temperance h,ibeing discussed in the Lem-latuie. Mi Ford, of Queen's, refeacd to a uiembei of one of the families of the pio\incu leeentlj buried as a pauper by mean- of Ins bemu: addicted to diink, and called it a tempeiance lecture in a nut-hell. Mi Pugh, the member for Halifax, 10-e and said that he was a liquor-s>eiier, and he con sidered his business ju^t as legitimate and respectable a? a eaiiiaue buildei. 'VluPtruck Mr Foul, who is a caniase buildoi, and so he replied bi icily a* follow- "I build canhges, nnd when I tnin out a line wagon 1 feel proud of it, and point to it moving along 1 the street and sa) : " Tint umy work. I would ask the honouiable member for Halifax if he i* pioud ot hiwoik, as he sees it reeling along the -ti eet .' To this there \va? no rer-ponse.