The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-01-25
Hurry and Dispatch.

Hurry and Dispatch.
Among the many causes of poor and
inefficient work is the habit of hurry,
which takes possession Of some busy
people Having or imagining they
have more to do in a given time than
can be done properly, they grow con-
fused, agitated, and nervous; and, un-
der this pressure, they proceed with
the work in hand without requisite
deliberatiop and care, perhaps omit
ting parts of it-sometimes important
parts-and producing at last an imper-
feet and inferior performance, which
can neither be permanent nor satisfac-
tory.
There is hardly any employment,
from the simplest manual work to the
most complex and difficult mental la
Dor, that does not suffer from this
cause. The dwelling house in process
of building is to be finished at GER
tain time. With proper forethought
and system it would have been done,
but the time approaches and the work
is still incomplete. The future occu-
pants are impatient, the contractor is
anxious, the workmen are driven, the
work is hurried through, and annoy
ance, discomfort, and sometimes dan
ger ensue, and repairs are soon found
necessary. The business man under
takes more than he can manage, the
days are not long enough for his needs,
he is agitated by the constant pressure
driven by conflicting claims, his bust.
ness suffers for the want Of clear and
cool head, his health suffers from con-
tinuaI and unrelaxed eXertion, his
family suffers from his deterioration,
and general disaster ensues. The ephy-
sician, with many other calls to make,
hurries through the visit, neglecting
some important symptom, and his pa
tient dies; the lawyer hurries through
his plea, and loses his case; the
preacher hurries through the prepare.
ton of his sermon, and fails to make
an impression the artist hurries on
his picture to completion, and his best
conception is not there; the teacher
hurries through prescribed course OF
instruction, and the class is left desti-
tute of the more important elements
of knowledge. 1t is not too much to
say that large proportion of the un-
happiness, the ignorance, the loss OF
property, and even the loss of life, that
that is endured in the world is to be
directly traced to the hurry and drive
which characterize so much of the Ia
Dor performed.
Many persons not only drift into
these hurried ways, but pride them.
selves upon them. They boast OF
their speed, and contrast it with the
slower measures of their more deliber-
ate neighbors. They flatter them.
selves upon their dispatch, and hold
themselves of more value on that ac-
count. Slowness in work, lingering
or lettering over what is 10 be done, is
not to be recommended. On the con-
trary, energy and vigor will prompt
the healthy and industrious man to Ia
Dor steadily and rapidly, while neg
lecting nothing that is needed to per-
feet his work. But this is very differ
ent from the agitated and excited hur..
ry which has been mentioned, and
which is to be deprecated.
Jennie June, the justly celebrated
Authoress, has sent forth forcible
criticism upon "Modern Manners"
from which we herewith present a few
extracts
The decadence in modern manners,
the want of courtesy between equals
as we'll as from those who occupy a
lower or dependent position, is fruit
full subject of complaint with those
who remember the unwritten laws
which governed the social world OF q
bygone generation and eXerted re,
heX influence upon even the business
relations of life.
Paradoxical as it may seem, it is
true also that in this country we are
the best and worst hammered people
in the world-the best in quiet endur-
ance of disagreeable situations, the
worst is the almost uniform 1nditler-
ence to forms of polite address, minor
courtesies and failure to comprehend
the relation which exists between
manners" and morality.
II is q curious fact that at q time
when competition is greater than it
ever was before, when larger sums are
spent in advertising their wares by
business men, when tricks and devices
of all kinds are resorted to for the pur-
bose of attracting customers, the one
most certain to hold them is utterly
neglected, viz: obliging treatment.
Of class of young men she says:
Vanity and imbecility are fast rem
dering them an indistinguishable race
neither device, human nor respecta-
bic rs brutes, but new species, posi-
bly, the "missing link" to be investi-
gated and assigned place by natural
lists. a young dude recent " made it a
condition of going to party with his
sister that she should not introduce"
any one. He didn't want to sim
cWcascn his list of acquaintances /; be-
sides he was "afwaid" the collection"
might be "miXcd." This is literally
true.
A few nights since q working boy on
al elevated train rose to give seat to
q lady touching his cap as he did SO,
with a gesture so simple, yet full of
natural gcntleness as to make him o
Youthful prince in her eyes. Such an
act is so rare as to stand out like star
and reconcile one to much that, en-
countercd day by day, becomes less
and less tolerable. 1t is infinitely bet
Ter for children to be lowered with
courtesy than money, but the charm
of manner, the restful feeling which
il rives from the shock of the selfish
and the vulgar, will never desert
them, always color their atmosphere
and strew their path, common high
way though it be, with flowers.
1t is hard to say whether God dis
covers more love in preparing heaven