Excerpt from The Handy Boy: A Modern Handy Book of Practical and Profitable Pastimes
The handy boy becomes a handy man - a skilled mechanic, a practical business man, a thorough, accurate worker. That is why it is so important for a boy to learn to be handy, and why he should be encouraged in the pursuit of playtime pastimes which will develop handiness.
"The Handy Boy" has been especially planned with a view to training the boy in the ways of doing things handily, by applying handy methods to the making and doing of hundreds of worth-while things in which he will be intensely interested. Such instruction as it contains can be put to immediate use, and that naturally will appeal more to the boy's sense of the practical than instruction which he could not possibly use for years to come, and will be of infinitely more value to him because knowledge once applied is not easily forgotten.
Handiness comes more naturally to some boys than to others, but any boy who will employ a portion of his spare time to experimenting, and to working out handy boy ideas, can acquire it. Clumsiness is simply a lack of the knack of doing things gracefully, and the boy with a tendency to be clumsy must overcome it by properly applying himself.
The man of today who excuses his inability to do this or that by admitting that he is not handy, was one of the boys of yesterday who did not bother about making kites, constructing conveniences for the house, and building boats, wagons, tree-huts, and the like. Perhaps he had a good time, but he might have had just as good a time doing something useful, and would now have the enjoyment of making the things he would like to make if he but knew how.
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