Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-29
HASTE

OoSerFc now poorly everything Is done,
when done in haste. The hasty man is
the opposite Of the quiddler, but there is
little to choose between them. The former,
indeed, brings the most to pass, but it is
often good for nothing. The latter finishes
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it is done. The character of hastv man
is certainly not worth affecting, and yet
we often read at the bottom of letter.
81 am yours in haste, John Smith," when
if the truth were only known, Mr. Smith
composed it at his leisure. The real
secret is, he wished the last words to oper-
ate as 6 errors excepted in accounts, and
cover multitude of mistakes
Yours in haste" forSooth. Such q
man as Mr.. Smith is not to our taste. by
any means. We want no man 5 sip-shod
half thoughts, born before ther time, half
grown, spoilt in the delivery.
\ man in haste, is after all very apt to
be behind time, spending the whole day,
and half doing this in trying to overtake
1t. In consequence, he runs over little
boys in the street; upsets chairs in the
house: empties the ink-staHd: instead of
the sand, upon his writing: tries to strike
up fire with his cigar and puts the Luci-
fer match into his mouth. If he writes
for the press he scratches off paragraph
or two in race against time: if he is a
shoemaker, his seams rip: if a tailor, the
coat is sent home without any pockets.
He catches up his cane, ruShes into the
shower, and has to return to fetch an
umbrella. Legislature in general. and
Congress most of all, afford fine speci-
mems, at the heel of a session, of labor
done in haste, and how curiously the trait
of haste is found connected in the same
body, personal and corporate, with idle
ness and inertness. Congress, that can
drag along through three months without
useful act, in the last three days loves
to be heels over head in business. 1t is
therefore just as impossible to tell what
will come out of the legislative hopper in
these last DAYS, as it is, what Signor Blitz
will extract from a mans mouth or nose
at one of his entertainments; it may be
an onion, or cabbage, nobody can guess.
The man of haste pays ten dollar bill
for turkey, takes one-and-a-eight pence
for his change in silver and copper, and
lOlSctS tllc IcSt. Ilc W StlhS Ou Will HIS
poultry, boasting how cheap he got it.
He puts his friends letter, just received
into the Post Office, and his answer to it
in his pocket book; sops up puddle of
ink with his handkerchief, and wipes his
nose with the blotter; spoils whole
quill in attempting to mend it in hurry !;
jumps into the river instead of the ferry
boat; puts his pants on hind side before,
and his waistcoat over his coat
Haste breaks glass and bones; ruins
bank clerks: makes holes in clothes and
special pleading; produces war, gets a
ship on the rocks, which it cannot get off,
and a bachelor into matrimony, which he
cannot get out of again. The hasty
speech is soon cold again; but not till it
has lit up flame in anothers breat, that
does not go out so soon; the hasty word
is followed by slow repentance. Haste
makes waste, hinders speed and is to be
recommended chiefly in cooking beef
steak. Inaccomplishing anything it uses
the worst tools and the most expensive
method, clutching at what is next at
hand, is bad in bargains, to be avoided
by the statesman. irreconcilable with
grace and dignity in manners. 1t never
discovered planet, invented a machine
or process; produced an epic; built a