A BUSINESS MAN’S ADVICE TO HIS SON.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume II, Issue 58, 8 February 1868, Page 3

A BUSINESS MAN’S ADVICE TO HIS SON.

Now my hoy, look here, you can’t have me always with you, so try and bear in mind what I am about to say to you, as your are commencing- business on your own account.

They say that one eye of the master does more work than both his hands. So mind your eye. Your schoolmaster taught you your alphabet, and showed you the difference between vowels and consonants. Now the less you have to do with the vowels I 0 U, and the more with the consonants LSD, the better. Chalk that up. Don’t be to much given to pleasure; always prefer the Ledger to the Derby, and beef-steaks to sweep-stakes all the world over.

Life is like a game at cards; so have no shuffling in you dealing, but try for honours, avoid ti’icks, and you will be called a trump. Be very careful how you give your hand to acceptance; if it be a three month's bill, why, you may live to get over that, but if you offer your hand for acceptance to a lady, and she closes with you, and holds you at arms’ length, it may prove a serious lesson for life. Gold is valuable; silver is useful; but, in the absence of both, brass will be found very serviceable. If ever your are a father, train up your son in the way he should go, and when he grows up see if he don’t go it. Never let your business interfere with your 'meals, because it unsettles your digestion. Fix your dinner hour between one and two, or it’s two to one ’twill be all sixes and sevens with you. As soon as ever your business grows large enough for you torecpiire help from others, prepare for complaints from your customers.

Any fool can take down shutters, but it will require a good salesman to keep the shop open. You will find it much better to have several little bills running in your nursery, than one large one running at the doctor’s. .

A cutjjwitb an intended come again may do very well in the case of a cold shoulder of mutton;, but if you u cold shoulder ” your intended with a cut,

they may be no come again in that case. If your are desirous of paying twenty shillings in the pound every day, never Eiy two shilling’s for the pound at ady-day.