There was a poor man out of work living in Hingham,Massachusetts.He lounged around the house until one day his wife told him to get out and work,and,as he lived in Massachusetts,he obeyed his wife.He went out and sat down on the shore of the bay,and whittled a soaked shingle into a wooden chain.His children that evening quarreled over it,and he whittled a second one to keep peace.While he was whittling the second one aneighbor came in and said："Why don't you whittle toys and sell them?You could make money at that.""Oh,"he said,"I would not know what to make.""Why don't you ask your own children right here in your own house what to make?""What is the use of trying that?"said the carpenter."My children are different from other people's children."（I used to see people like that when I taught school.）But he acted upon the hint,and the next morning when Mary came down the stairway,he asked,"What do you want for a toy?"She began to tell him she would like a doll's bed,a doll's washstand,a doll's carriage,a little doll's umbrella,and went on with a list of things that would take him a lifetime to supply.So,consulting his own children,in his own house,he took the firewood,for he had no money to buy lumber,and whittled those strong,unpainted Hingham toys that were for so many years known all over the world.That man began to make those toys for his own children,and then made copies and sold them through the boot-and-shoe store next door.He began to make a little money,and then a little more,and Mr.Lawson,in his Frenzied Finance says that man is the richest man in old Massachusetts,and I think it is the truth.And that man is worth a hundred millions of dollars to-day,and has been only thirty-four years making it on that one principle-—that one must judge that what his own children like at home other people'schildren would like in their homes,too;to judge the human heart by oneself,by one's wife or by one's children.It is the royal road to success in manufacturing."Oh,"but you say,"didn't he have any capital?"Yes,a penknife,but I don't know that he had paid for that.