270 THE BUSINESS OF FAEMING 



forum or the legislative halls, and longed for the 

 day when he would be a great lawyer or a great 

 stateman? 



The business that pays the greatest profit and 

 gives the greatest opportunities for home build- 

 ing is the business most sought after by our peo- 

 ple. In every line of business the people who are 

 engaged in it do the things they see their neigh- 

 bors do which brings the greatest profit. 



If a farmer produces a certain crop one year 

 that pays large returns, all his neighbors imitate 

 him the next season and raise the same crop. 

 Boys and girls are imitative. They want to imi- 

 tate the higher types of men and women, but un- 

 less rightly guided too often mistake the higher 

 type. They want to do what men and women 

 do which seems to them will bring the greatest 

 joy and happiness. If when they go to a city 

 they scarcely look at the hovel or poorer districts 

 where poverty abounds, they see the beautiful 

 parked streets with the magnificent residences 

 richly furnished within and adorned without. 

 And the better dressed men and women only 

 impress them, and they immediately begin to 

 dream of these and plan to engage in the busi- 

 ness that will make such things possible for them 

 to acquire. 



As the author was penning these lines his atten- 

 tion was called to the newspaper report of a large 

 Sunday men's meeting in the Capital City of his 

 state. There were fifteen hundred men at this 

 meeting. The speaker's subject was the "Coun- 

 try Boy." The speaker began his remarks by 

 asking all the men in the audience who were reared 



