For the Boys

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 18 June 1908, Page 9

For the Boys

- The ' Wairarapa Daily Times ' remarks that there is a marked diminution in the oumber of ' smart youths ' who scramble for advertised positions fn shops and offices. 'The parents', says our contemporary, ' evidently think they have better things in store for their boys', and keep them at school. In this connection we may friuote some homely advice from a recent issue of ' The Scholars' Own.'. 'Now', it says, 'you lads who a.re leaving school, don't be in such a hurry to be earning something. Think of the future prospect rather than the present advantage. The man who can do something really well, whether it be the making of a table, the building of a house," or the writing of a book, will very seldom be unemployed. It is the boys in a hurry who are " little millionaires " on eight shillings a week at fourteen, and " big loafers " on nothing at eighteen, with no trade in their fingers, and no prospect but the life of a day laborer. Go slowly, boys— you'll go farther. Hurry is a dog that often goes off on a wrong scent.- Patience and foresight are two dogs which hunt together ; they are slow at " finding ",- but they are always " in at" the death." '