The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-11-23
HASTE MAKES WASTE.
The Best Method to be Observed in Order
to Avoid Idle Hours.


To waste time is worse than wasting
money. You may have more money than
you can spend, but you can never have
too much time; and if you waste dollar
you may make it up by economy or a
lucky stroke, but an hour wasted is gone
forever.
'"Time goes on-a file that wears and
makes no noise. Time is meier over
talsen," says the old Scotch proverb.
How little we value it! To the young
it is often their only wealth, yet what
rich store it is! How many old and
middle-aged people would give any thing
for return of only "a few of their wasted
years. AS King Richard III. said: 81
wasted time, and time doth now waste
me-"
1t is too true of many of us that we
take no heed of time but from SITS loss"
We merely shuttle through the world
and at the end of our journey have little
to show for our fleeting hours.
Economy of time develops so many de-
lights, and gives so much freshness
to life, that it is a shame to waste
it. But perhaps many young people
have no definite idea how to save time,
and few practical hints may be of
service:
Time may be saved by early rising.
But you say it is unhealthful to curtail
your natural sleep. So it is; but that
need not encourage you to lie in bed an
hour after getting awake, as l know
some young people do. That does more
harm than good.
But if you can not break yourself
wholly of this practice, why not utilize
these doing minutes by running through
in your mind what you have to do that
day-map out the plan of campaign, as
it were? Then you can get up with a
definite idea of what you may have to do.
Have some employment to take up at
odd moments and be punctual. Five
minutes here and ten there. too late for
meals, drives orappointments of any kind
amount to hours in the day.
Keep your surroundings tidy, and
every thing in its place, or you will al
ways be hunting for what you have mis-
laid and throwing away valuable mo-
ments wholesale.
But remember that ''haste makes
waste" of time as well as any thing else.
A thing we'll done is twice done, and do
ing things in hurry is almost as bad as
not doing them at all, for they are
scarcely ever we'll done:
Do one thing at time. Over-active
people are apt to get into way of think
ing about what they shall do next, when
all their energy should be concentrated
on the occupation of the moment.
Do your work thoroughly. Slipshod
work is the worst waste of time; in fact,
it is time absolutely thrown away
Care and economy of time is not only
wise policy; it is a duty. The most
expensive thing in the world is to
kill time. Amusements in themselves
are not to be deprecated. "All work and
no play makes Jack dull boy" but, de-
pend upon it, those people who are so
destitute of resources in themselves that
they have to be perpetually amused have
never mastered the secret of economy of
time, and are among the most miserable
people in the world.
Avoid this as you would plague, and
now, while you are young, take care of
the moments, and the hours will take
care of themsclves.-Go Days.
The Creoles of Louisiana.
The usual impression obtaining con-
cerning Creoles is that they are all Of
them possessed of dark and swartby
hair black as the ravens
wing and eyes of 'ebon darkness A
New Orleans acquaintance says that
many have lily-white compilations,
golden locks and "eyes of heavens own
blue" The Creole girl is usually re-
fined and dainty, sensitive and sympa-
thetic, light-hearted and sunny-tem-
pered. She is usually brought up
quietly, and she is content to remain at
home. OF course the majority of Creole