YOUR SONS SHOULD LEARN


A TRADE.
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Ihere IS an important feature In the reg
ulatlons of master Mechanic, which Is
trighliul to some kid parents hearts,
And that Is. the five or seven years appren-
ticeship the boy that learns trade must
submit 10. Bur ii is an excellent discipline
IL takes the lad al critical period of life,
when he perhaps has a disposition averse
to steady employment when he is inclined
to roam at large amid the Communicating
lnfluenc about him, and puts upon him
steady round of duties, severe at first, but
soon becoming from habit agreeable; and
when his steady habits and industry are
established, he comes forth a man, the mas
ter OF trade. of fixed principles and good
habils-a blessing to himself and to the
community.


Ii parents would but look at the rig ht,
they would declare that, had they many
sous, they should learn trades. Contrast
the youth ast alluded TO. with him, who
having horror of an apprenticeship is
allowed TO run at large. At the most crit.
ical moment Of life, for forming habits. he
is forming those that are the reverse of in>
dustry. He IS not fitting himself to be a
man, by wearing away boyh1od in idleness
The partial parent sees this, yet has not the
fortitude 10 avert it. At twenty one years
of age. when the first named lad comes ou:
good mechanic, it is wonderful if the 9TH
re hes not fastened habits upon himself that
viii b. his ruin, if he be not ruined already
More than one excellent man in cur com
munity. can say with thankfulness. that it
turned out so. that to his half dozen years
apprenticeship he knows he is indebted for
the habits of industry and sobriety he has
obtained. That when he was put out to a
trade, he was on a pivot, as it were. Had
it not been for the irmness of his parents.
he would not have become an apprentice.
If he had not done SO. scarcely doubt he
has that he should have been ruined lad,
ere his minority expired. This was the
turning point.