Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . 18 Tips for Helpers—By Phoenix TIPS FOR HELPERS—CHAPTER 2. By Phoenix. Take it near and far, there isnt abetter place in the wide, wide world thatwill better develop common sense thana plumbing and heating shop. Theadvantages are unusual. You get a lookat all kinds of building constructionfrom the humble cottage to the fortyand fifty storey skyscraper. The boy of to-day should cultivatethe natural common sense that lies with-in him. Cultivate, I say, for we all ofus have a goodly bump of that oldhorse sense of our parents and grandparen
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . 18 Tips for Helpers—By Phoenix TIPS FOR HELPERS—CHAPTER 2. By Phoenix. Take it near and far, there isnt abetter place in the wide, wide world thatwill better develop common sense thana plumbing and heating shop. Theadvantages are unusual. You get a lookat all kinds of building constructionfrom the humble cottage to the fortyand fifty storey skyscraper. The boy of to-day should cultivatethe natural common sense that lies with-in him. Cultivate, I say, for we all ofus have a goodly bump of that oldhorse sense of our parents and grandparents. Some have it developed to ahigh degree, while with others it always. \A/ell Pot u-p~B> OT(T>EH. The _ remains dormant. It appears to me that,in this day of specialists, the commonsense is in danger of becoming crowdedout. It looks to me something like this:—?Fifty, or even forty years ago, a manjust naturally had to do things. No mat-ter what it was he questioned around inhis noddle until he found some naturalpractical way out of it. He wasnt soheavy on the education or the speciali-zation, but he was great on the DO. Acommon, two-headed grimy patchedyoungster of ten or twelve years of agecould prohably tell you the name and useof every tool he had ever seen and thechances are that he could use any or allof them passably well. He had to. Notbecause he wanted to, particularly, butin order to help out in the daily strugglefor existence. He helped around the farm, the home,and many times was bound out. Take a boy of the same age to-dayand—well there simply is no comparisonso far as the knowledge of work in lifeis concerned. Perhaps I a
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