“He puzzled me at first,” said a physician who had engaged a
young college student to take some care of his office. “He put
actual head-work into his sweeping and dusting, and he showed
remarkable carefulness and dexterity in handling articles, never
disarranging or misplacing them. I found that he is studying
music as well as Latin, and aims to be a pianist one of these
days. Do you see, he simply applied the skill he had attained in
a finer art to the rougher work he did for me? It speaks well
for his future that he did it.”
This ennobling and harmonizing of the coarser task by means of
the skill acquired at a finer one, marks the difference between
cheap work and expert work. The careless man never sees the
connection between two varieties of labor, but the man who does
not mean to waste the least of his talents puts his whole mind,
all his manual skill, into whatever necessary task is set before
him. And this application of skill to diverse ends heightens in
itself that very force of skill, so that the man who uses the
best he has for each new need becomes a stronger and more able
man. (Text.)--_Young People._
(1360)
=Head-work Unremunerative=--See ILL-PAID WORK.
=Healing=--See CHRIST, A THERAPEUTIC.
=Healing Spells=--See REMEDIES, STRANGE.
=Healing, The Gift of=--See GOD SENDS GIFTS.