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Boys PAGE 7
Employers in Relation to Boys 9
Boys in Relation to Employers 13
Young Men and Success 22
Other Conditions of Success 32
INTRODUCTION.
Several years ago a man, now venerable for age and character, gave the writer some valuable hints about boys and young men in relation to business. He had himself begun life a poor boy, and achieved large success. Coming to New York more than sixty years ago, he was familiar with all the changes in methods of doing business up to the time then present. Nor has he ceased to be active in the affairs of a large concern at this later day. The passing years have made him old and have not left me young. The thoughts he gave me, supplemented by my own reading, observation and reflection, move me to set down some things that may be helpful not only to the classes of persons already referred to, but to others as well.
The great change in business methods does not warrant any change in the characters and habits of those who have a right to expect success in any true meaning of the word.
I would gladly speak a helpful word to the thousands of boys and young men who are looking hopefully into the future, and yet may not have in mind the true conditions of well-doing for themselves or their employers.
Boys and Young Men in Relation to Business.
If there were no boys there would be no young men and no old men. To this truism add the saying, "The boy is the father of the man," and our subject has dignity and greatness at the outset. There may be aspects of it that provoke merriment; but there are more of a different character, and we are kept sober-minded in view of them.
The boy on shipboard is the "monkey." The boy among types and presses is the "printer's devil." The boy at school is "Jack," or "Bill," or "Dick," "hail-fellow well met," and a peer among peers. The boy in college, if any boys go to college, is a "Freshman," bound--if not happily emancipated of late--to serve the learned "Sophomore," or take a ducking, or something worse, for his disobedience.
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