Some Words With Yon, Boys

YVhat kind of work do you like tha best? Bvery ono has some choica of work, something that he likes to do, and that he getterally does wel! becausa ho kiiows he can d it. Perhaps you like to study best ; perhaps you are%est pleaed when you havo your pon or your penoil or your paint brush in your hand, because you like best to write or draw or paint ; perhaps you aro dolighted to ba whittling some model of a ship, or putting together a steara engine or sewing machine, or something else ; perhaps yoa are one of the boys, there are some, who liko such work and plfty as is usually girls work and play. li' so don't be ashamed of it. If you have a taste for tho arrangement of ribbons and flower and such things, God gare it to you juit as Ho gave to your sister or some other boy's sister a preferenoo for sawing wood or shovoling in the snow. I have known girls who enjoyed such thiugs very much, and good, woüianly girls thejtCéte too, handy in the house as woli as out of doora. Yi-ars ago, a littlo girl used to coast in her father's yard - a fürnous coaat that was. You might have laughed to seo her lying at full length on her sled, with her uplifted feet all warm and'tight in a pair of her brother's boots But how laughed, and how rosy her cheeks were, ahe was having such a good time! I don't believe sha is ashamed of it now that she has grown to be a woman. At the same time that the little girl dressed tor play out of doors, her older brother was most happy to play with her dolls ordo somepretty sewing. Eeoould make his own neckties and trim his siater's hats, and he did so. His tasto in all matters of dress, arrangement of furniture, and the like, is excellent. Now ba is a business man, and it is all the bettei tbat ho knows how to make his hom bright and beautiful -with flowers and pictures. I know another boy, a young man h hts grown to be, who sees beauty in machinery, and is never so happy as whea he ia contriving sometbing, considering himself happy if he can sucoeed in making it " go. ' One suinmer he had a sewing machine in his work-shop out in th vroodshed, but he oouldn't make it sew. His grandfitLer wanttd him to stay oa farm and help him, but Charli couldn't be happy there ; so he has gona into a great rnanufactory ainong hun dreds of men and boys to leara to be machinist. There is one thing that needs a great deal of care, and that is to be patiënt and thoughtful while obliged to do work for which you havo no taste, and which you dislike to do. If God has given yoa a taste to do certain things, He will open the way if you wait for him patiently. Dr. Dio Lewis says to the boys : " Of all men with whom we deal, nono are so strong, self-ccmtained, and independent as skilled laboiers." A boy's teacher says of suoh men : " Thoy are our truly inde pendent citizens. They stand on their own two feet, and with their own arm coromand respect and support whioh must from this time on, in America, b oonceded to all useful industries." There are two wealthy yonng men in Boston, who are learnicg to be machini=ts. They want some regular oocupation, and this is a good one. If you have a gift in your hands, boys, mako the most of it, but learn all you oan fronx books that you may bo intelligent men in business. Set your mark high and