Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer.

  • Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897.
Date:
1890 [1889]
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Credit: Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    don.” Wlien lie got home he made three pens, from which he selected the best, and sent it by that night’s post to Mr. Perry. Two days afterwards Mr. Perry, presented himself in Lancaster Street, to see the man who had made a better pen than his, to ascertain if he could make them in large quantities, and to conclude a bargain with him. In both the split-ring and the pen business Mr. Mason was eminently successful, and with the capital thus ac- quhed he entered into the business of electro-plating and gilding, then into the business of copper smelting. Mr Mason established a copper-smelting business at Pembury, in Wales, which, an obscure village in 1850, has, through his enterprise, been converted into a flourishing town. The school built there by his firm to accommodate betw^een 400 and 500 children, is now found too small. Another sphere of Sir Josiah’s activities was in connection with the banking interests of the Midlands. When the Birmingham Bank failed, he became chaiiTnan of a new company formed to assist and, if possible, to repair the losses of the old. His fii'st great work of benevolence was the erection and endowing of almshouses, and an orphan asylum for boys and girls near Bumingham. The first portion of the buildings was erected in 1858, one part as almshouses, and the other for an orphanage. There is accommodation in the almshouse portion for thirty women, spinsters or widows of the age of fifty years or more. Each inmate is provided with a fuimished house, coal, gas, and other advantages. The pai't which was originally the Orphanage is now converted into a home for girls educated at the Orphanage, who may be out of service, or suffering from sickness. Not satisfied with these acts of beneficence, Mr. Mason laid the foundation stone of a new orphanage him- self, on the 19th of Septembei’, 1860, and it was finished and first occupied in 1868. In addition to the expenditiue