New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-01-09

THE HABIT OF HURRY.
Modern Life Dominated BY : Desire To
Do Too Much.
A medical contemporary publishes
some sensible and, we fear, only too
opportune observations on what it calls
the ''habit Of hurry" in modern life.
The modern man of business dresses in
hurry, he breakfasts in hurry, he is
in hurry to catch his train, he is in .
hurry to get out of it. 1t is with hurry
that he proceeds to his office, in . hurry
that he reads his letters, that he an
swers them, that he passes his dav, and
that he returns to the station to catch
his homeward- bound train. All this
precipitation, this constant, daily, per
petual being in hurry is altogether
gratuitous, and that it is the mere
result of bad habit. Business men
can not afford not to be seen in hurry.
IT one OF them were to walk at leis-
urely and deliberate pace to his morn
ing train and saunter through tho day
at the same rate, people would con-
clude that he had very little business
to transact, or that he was remiss and
lethargic in transacting it. Hence. he
begins by assuming necessity for haste
when none really exists: and. by de-
grees, habit becomes second nature.
That there is q good deal of truth in
all this nobody who has observantly
watched modern ways of life would
dream OF denying. But in truth the
habit OF hustle which is SO marked a
characteristic OF our time is originally
set up by conditions over which men
have little or no control. In the case
of men of business there are necessari-
" certain days in the year-'.mail''
days, for instance, or balancing"
days-when there really does exist q
greater pressure of work than at other
times. In these cases 4 push has to
be made. and everybody concerned in
getting the work done communicates
his own feverishness to his neighbors.
But such is the constitution Of the
human frame, such the mechanism Of
human temperament, that what is done
frequently has tendency to establish
itself as something there Is always
sdone. 1t even becomes q pleasure to
some men at last, as well as . necessi-
ty, to do things quickly. Moreover, on
the supposition that man of business
lives in the country, or in a semi-rural
suburb-which is the case with the
majority-it is only natural that he
should linger among his household
gods till the last possible minute. T.
is SO much more plesanter to 20 round
to the stable, to see how the azaleas
are getting on, to count the coming
rosebuds, to linger on the dewy gravel
path than to- be in the noisy. dirty.
steaming city. Then suddenly the
watch is taken out of the pocket to
see what time it is, and in order to
catch the city train he unjust make q
run for it," The day begun in that
fashion probably is continued in that
fashion The train arrives at the place Of
departure five, ten, fifteen minutes late.
The traveller begins to fidget and
worry: de has an appointment and he
tears ne will be late for it. Possibly,
he is; Thereby everything is thrown
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