DON’T MISTAKE YOUR VOCATION
The safest plan, and the one most sure of success for the young man starting
in life, is to select the vocation which is most congenial to his tastes. Parents
and guardians are often quite too negligent in regard to this. It very common
for a father to say, for example: “I have five boys. I will make Billy a
clergyman; John a lawyer; Tom a doctor, and Dick a farmer.” He then goes
into town and looks about to see what he will do with Sammy. He returns
home and says “Sammy, I see watch-making is a nice genteel business; I