The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-02-27
REPRESENTATION.

Instance, when you have received an insult
ing letter, or one that you think is so, 1t is
better TO wait q bit, and think calmly over
the answer, rather than rush off on the i'm
pulse of the moment and write that which
you will afterward regret. If it will help to
relieve your mind any, you can write reply
at once, but do not send fright away. Let
it lis ia your desk for day or two, then, it
upon calm reflection il seems all right and
appears the wisest thing to do, which mae
times out of ten it will not, why send 1t. But
often BY taking due time for reflection, you
will DO satisfied that notbing,w will be lost by
taking milder and Quiator tone, 50 the
original document may find its way into the
fire. II is good thing for any one whom he
is angry to sleep over his grievance before
taking any action, and review it in the calm,
clear light of tho morning. Once in awhile
we find ourselves in "osd fix, ,
and wo hardly know how to 90 to
work to GO Yourselves out. But if we will only
wait bit, we will find that timo settles
many things for us that we could not have
manag d at all ourselves. How many things
troubled uS year ago that now we do not
care for and even smile at, just as we will AT
tho things that are worrying us now, and
making our Lies anxious, and our nights
wakeful. A year ago some blunder that We
committed seemed largo enough to over
shadow the rest o our days. now it seems so
Insignificant that 20 wonder how we could
ever have givor it thought. We
loso many good things by foolish procras.i-
nation; still many things aro gained BY
waiting liulo while for second
thoughts are often best. Perhaps your at
lention may bo caught by some brilliant
bubble Of speculation whereby you think to
make your fortune in day; but wait little
aud think it over, for your ruin may be nc
compIished in momont There are dozens
of men who qr3 ruined and come to grief by
jumping st . thing too soon whore there is
uuo WIN huhtIs rum u lohSVinoA' NN''y'
We ough. never to act ia haste to repent at
leisure, especially in business transactions OF
any Importance. Nothing is ever lost by taking
q little while to consider. In every doubtful
matter we ought to move slowly and csu-
tiously. Ia many cases the temptation to act
at once, and just as the feelings prompt, is
almost irresistible. In moment Of passion
wa are apt to fling back the contempLuous
word, or strike blow at the heart of those we
love best on earth--to do that for which VIC
will suffer days aud weeks of remorse,
Then is it not better that we should wait
bit, or procrastinste a little, before we sposk
the words that shall cost us so much sorrow?
that we would give worlds to recall? The
greatest accomplishment we can learn is
that Of holding our tongues. The word pro-
has bad faint, although il
means nothing but "the putting oil until
to morrow" which is often tho very wistst
thing we can do. But not always there mo
exceptions to every rule there are case3 in
which it Is bad to L.. things wait--thc sooner
they are disposed of the better. II you have
u dissgreeabo and in vtabe duty to per
form, the sooner you got IL over tho beltor.
1t will grow more and moro formidable the
longer you lot il lie. From mola.hill j. viii
grow into mountain, lfyou have got TO take
a cold plunge, the longer you stand shiyer-
log on the bank, the worse it will be for you,
and tho moro unnerved you viii become.
The habit of putting things oil grows upon
man steadily and imperceptibly. Some
people never do anything in the morning
that can DO done at night, nor never do any
thing TO day that can be done tomorrow
lfthey have a bill to pay They always wait
until the very last moment. If they have
letters TO answer they always wait until they
are almost out of date. If there "a even II
leak in the roof they wa until the house is al
most ruined. No one can correctly calcu.
late the harm that may be done BY Just let
ting things wait bit Many man puts of
making his will because he can do it ut any
time, until the time comes for him to die
and he has done nothing, and his property
goes to the very persons that he was most
anxious it should not A lucrative position
presents itself to young man, no let's it wait
n bit, and somebody else steps in and takes his
place. These are some Of the evils of procr8s.
tination. The mechanic lets his work wait q
bit until the demand Cor work has ceased,
then he is left without job. The lawyer
lets his case wait from term TO term, though
this i, the exception, Tor the longer he can
keep the matter pending, tho larger are his
fees Aud tho writer of this essay has de-
layed the work until the printer ia clamorous
for copy and it cannot be delayed any
longer.
WHEN great and prominent msn, a MAJ
of superior ability and of national fame, lik