Good Advice.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 982, 24 December 1890, Page 4

Good Advice.

To yourg men Bob Burdette says:— You take a basin of water, place your finger in it for twenty-five or thirty seconds, take it out and look at the hole that is left. The size of that hole represents about the impression that advice makes on a young man’s mind. Don’t depend too much on your family—the dead part I mean. The world wants live men; it has no use for dead ones. Queen Yictoria can trace her ancestors back in a direct line to William the Conqueror. If you cannot get farther back than your father you are better off. Your father was a better man in his time than old William. He had better clothes to wear, better food to eat, and was better housed. If you are a diamond be sure that you will be found out. - Cheek, brass, or gall never gets ahead of merit. I love a young man who is straightforward. Ask for what you want. If you want to marry a rich man’s daughter, or borrow §SOO from him, ask him for it; it amounts to the same thing in the end. It is always better to astonish a man than to boro him. Remember that in the morning of life comes tho hard-working days. Hard work never killed a man. It’s fun, recreation, relaxation, and holidays that kill. The fun that results in a head next morning so big that a tub could hardly cover it is what kills. Hard work never does. You can’t afford to do anything but what is good. You are on dress parade all the time. Don’t be afraid of pounding persistently at one thing. Don’t be afraid of being called a one-idea man or a crank. If you have one idea, you must have moro than most men havo. It takes a smart man to bo a crank.