Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1880 — Chooaing a Profession. [ARTICLE]

Chooaing a Profession.

bytho experience If * ymi 2n*l!£J pitiraiaedhfadying tether ih£ he would fM STamcMldtrSaMgli the fitting far Its ashe hadn’t the nerre to rob a graveyard. Then he thought of law, but aa he became satisfied that he couldn't be friends on the street with the man who, in Ac court-room, called him a snivelling blackguard, and whom he had hinted was wasn’t good at poker, he gave up.that idea. He thought of Ae stage, but the conclusion that he shouldn't like to be fired at several times a week by the men with whose wives he had flirted mads him feel that he was unfit far that profession. The church suggested itself. He might be a clergyman. But when he asked himself: “Do you like to play croquet V* his confdfluce compelled him to admit that he detested the game. He was, therefore, unfitted far Ae church. But at last a happy thought struck him. He did not object to profanity, he was willing to yell at the top Of bis voice, he enjoyed a scuffle now and then, and he Bked to’ wear diamond* and draw a big salary. Tip way was open to Urn to keep his promise to his father by becoming a professional man, and at Ae same time do nothing that tea conscience told him he was unfitted for. He pitches a curved ball.” —Boston iW.

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