HINTS FOR BOYS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 1, 7 January 1893, Page 23

HINTS FOR BOYS.

A GENTLEMAN advertised for a boy to assist him in his office, and nearly fifty applicants presented themselves before him. Out of the whole number he selected one, and dismissed the rest.

• I should like to know,’ said a friend, ‘on what ground you selected that boy witbout a single recommendation ?’ ‘ You are mistaken,’ said the gentleman ; * he has a great many : He wiped his feet when he came in and closed the door after him, showing that he was careful; gave up his seat to that lame old man, showing that he was kind and thoughtful; he took oft* his cap when he cane in, answered my questions promptly and respectfully, showing that he was polite and gentlemanly ; he picked up a book which I had purposely laid upon the floor, and replaced it on the table, while all the rest stepped over it or shoved it aside, and he waited quietly for his turn, instead of pushing or crowding, showing that he was honest and orderly. When I talked with him, I noticed that his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice order and his teeth as white as milk ; and when he wrote his name 1 noticed that his finger nails were clean, instead of being tipped with jet, like that handsome little fellow sin the blue jacket. Don’t you call these things letters of recommendation Ido ; and I would give more tor what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes than all the letters of recommendation he can give me.’