Windfalls of Observation Gathered for the Edification of the Young And the Sola
Windfalls of Observation Gathered for the Edification of the Young And the Sola
Edward Sandford Martin
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A favorite illustration of this the ory is the reported case of a New Jersey novelist, of high contemporary renown, who writes two hours a day, and has the rest of his time to spare. Nature fur nishes a parallel case in the geysers of the Yellowstone, some of which take twenty-three hours to get ready and only spout fifteen minutes. But spare time, when it comes in such bulk, ceases to be a luxury, and it usually happens that men who have no set tasks make tasks for themselves, and burden thems...elves with horses, or the care of property, or politics, or yachts, or hunt ing, or courtship, or flirtation ; being willing to endure some pretence of a regular occupation, for the sake of its blessed intermissions. 191 XIII THE QUESTION OF AN OCCUPATION THE QUESTION OF AN OCCUPATION |NE of the ingenious persons who make interesting para graphs in the newspapers, put into a Boston paper, the other day, a tale of a well-to- do gentleman who had a son. For whom, when he came of age and had finished with the customary educational prelimi naries, his father cast about for an occu pation ; and himself having no business except to nurse his income, he wrote to twenty-four friends whose industrial ef forts had resulted successfully, asking each what he thought was a good busi ness, or profession, for a youth to start Nobody likes rr, ,, .
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