Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1880 — Plain Talk to Young Men. [ARTICLE]

Plain Talk to Young Men.

Remember, young friend, that the world is older than you are by several years; that for thousands of years it has been full of smarter and better young men than yourself: that when they died the globs went whirling on, and that not one man in a hundred million went to the funeral or even heard of the death. Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as much as you can; shed the light of your wisdom in the world, but don't try to dazzle or astonish any body with it. And don't imagine a thing is simple because you happen to think it is. Don’t be sorry for your father because he knows so much less than you do. He used to think he was as much smarter than his father as you think you are smarter than yours. The world has great need of young men, but no greater need than the young men have for the world. Your clothes nt better than your father's fit him;' they cost more money; they are more stylish. He used to be as straight and nimble as you are. He,-too, perhaps, thought his father old fashioned. Your mustache is neater, the cut of your hair is better, and you are prettier, oh,far prettier than your “pa” But young man, the old gentleman gets the biggest salary ,and his homely ling signature on the business end of a check will drain more money out of the bank in five minutes than you could get out with a ream of paper and a copperplate signature in six months. Young men are useful, and they are ornamental, and we all love them, and we could not engineer a picnic successfully without them. But they are no novelty. They have been here before. Eveiy generation has had a full supply of them, and will have till the end of time: and each crop will think themselves quite ahead of the last, and will live to be called old fogies by their sons. Go ahead* Have your day. Your sons will, by and by, pity you for old odd ways. Don’t be afraid your merit will not oe discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you, and if you are worth fiinding, they will find you. A diamond is not so easily fonnd as a quartz pebble, but the people search for it all the more intently.—Phrenological Journal.