San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-04
VARIOUS WAYS IN WHICH TIME
SEEMS TO BE WASTED.
Precious Hour Lost in Discussing Cues
lions of Inferior ImpOrtance-Little
Excuse for Cosby Gabble-Callers
Who Bore Us-Isnorant People.

tons of Inferior ImpOrtance-Little
Excuse for Cosby Gabble-CaIlers
Who Bore Us-Ignorant People.
have been trying to enumerate at least
| a part of the ways in which life slips into in
significance: for until we know the new we
shall not find the remedy. Gossip unques-
tiOnably takes high place in the list of men
tai and moral worth. By gossip | do not
mean the vulgar racking of a neighbours
character or qualifications with delight at
the sport Of hackbiting. This sort of bust
ness rank no higher than cock fighting and
bull batting. Whoever engages in 1t is
either too coarse to comprehend the values
of time, or is nauseated by each indulgence
until cured or ruined. The confirmed back
bitter is so thoroughly diseased that she or he
may be ranked with phthisical patients-not
to be cured or not worth the curing.
But gossip is something great deal more
general than backbiting. 1t is the applica.
ton of the mind to questions of positively in
ferior Importance to the exclusion of matters
of permanent value. OF course it is not easy
from your standpoint to Judge of what |
should be conversing. A man is quite sure
to despise questions of womans dress-per.
haps of dress altogether But with us it III
wolves art, and develops the peculiarly fem
mime capacity of approaching fitness in form
and color. But clearly tn re is a vast deal
of intellectual waste on small topics. This is
somewhat eXcusable at parties when the
mind is stupeted, often, in its abnormal de-
sire to please or shine; when we are com.
PEELED to converse with those whose intellec
tual tastes we know nothing of. Perhaps it
is for this reason that it has come to be held
as i'll breeding to introduce any topic of
weight. Can not society move with a
higher grade conversation! The effect at
present is to send sensible people home with
a feeling Of distress and loss, while the vapid
are made to consider that vapidity has
value.
LITTLE EXCUSE FOR GABLE
In our home life and general social rela-
tons there is far less excuse for goSsiNy
gable. Those whoare unable to converse
except on trash should be classed with the
ash barrel scavenger and denied the privi-
lege Of controlling any portion of our time.
We&rC privileged by nature to exclude the
gossip from any household familiarity.
With these scavenGers class the bores who
lack all valuation of the time of other PEG
pie, persons who do not gossip, but in reality
do nothing, and compel you to do the same.
An honest person, man or woman, should
have the days apportioned with great nicetv
to OCCUPANCY AID use. For the unexpected
and unfOresoeable Interruptions one NAV
allow justly AZ hour day For probable
Interruptions another hour To avoid the
loss 0t two or three more hours requires both
tact and decision. 1t is perfectly right to
rcC1ire I'll callers to report themselves, and
to reply tc many Of them mot at home, or
an equivalent
There is nc s"5Stantial reason why our
callers should not only send in a card. Int
should also add the object of the call and
specify the amount of time deSred This.
placed on n card, will cause the applicant
little time and trouble, and will save the
recipient vast loss. Is all the social oblira,
ton on the side of the visited! Think not
believe no one has right to ask one min.
ute of our time without apology and expla,
nation. Ny time is my money. One hour is
worth a cash value Whoever takes it from
me takes from my income as we'll as rav
comfort This it is not righteous to demand
nor right for me to allow There are claims
of friendship These are compatible with
work. True friends will not rob each other.
There is compensation in such cases.
WITH IGNORANT PEOPLE.
am not so confident what reward or COM
2e2Sation there may be for ogr. necessary
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