Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-10-04
ALWAYS BEHIND HAND.
An Exasperntlng Habit which Causes
; Much Irritation and Discomfort.

An Exhspernting Habit which Cause
II Much Irritation and Discomfort.
Numbers of good people are spoiled
by their habit OF being behindhand
For 1t Is habit and 1t can be over
come by little will. and good dea
OF perseverance.
We have noticed that man who Il
always purctual, usually is married Il
a woman who is never quite ready
and vice versa, and nobody knows. Of
will know till the books are balanced
at the final winding up, how much
mental and moral wear and fret Their,
Is about srch a union.
These everyday martyrs are Sc
common that nobody notices them
and yet 1t surely must be easier 10 die
once at the stake, seeing as all have
got to die some way, than 1t is to live
on for fifty years-three hundred and
sixty-five days and six hours to q year
with partner" who is never quite
ready. but who is going to DO lin just
few minutes.
The punctual woman has her meals
ready on the stroke OF the clock; and
her unpunctual husband knows that
they will be ready. but he stops, and
does little job OF work that might as
well have been left till afterward, and
the potatoes get cold, and the beef
steak tastes like tough leather in con-
sequence. . tsl'
The man who is on time has to sit
round drumming his fingers on the
window-pane, and lingering the cur
tain pulls, and making himself dis
agreeable generally. waiting while the
unpunctual wife gets things on the
table, and wonders what does mako
men folks so fidgety.
And that man suffers a small mar
tyrdom while he is waiting. and II he
does not swear about it, put II down to
his credit oh. recording angel.
An unpuuctual person never can
conceive what a trial it is to punct-
ual one TO have to wait, and wait, foi
what could just as we'll have been at.
tended TO on time.
You are going somewhere at ten
o'clock. You tell your wife to be
ready at that time. You hurry to keep
your appointment and you keep it
She knows that you will. But she
think there is plenty OF time People
who are invariably behindhand always
think there is time enough. That Is
the rock they split ON. You como
home and find her not ready.
But she tells you reassuredly that she
has only got to change her dress and
comb her hair. and see about dinner,
and it will only take few minutes.
And by bitter experience you know
that it will take a good hour 10 ac-
complish all these things.
or course you fret, AID you keep
calling out up the stairway to know
what in the dickens she is about, and
you tell her that you could have built
he City OF Jerusalem In the time she
mas been combing her hair and get
ing into another dress, and you get
'ut OF doors, and stamp about in tho
'ard TO pass the time away. and you
'esolve that the next time you ask her
o go anywhere with you, you won't |
Isk her.
80 we say TO all our friends, do try |
md be ready when the time TO be ready |
'omes. II would save SO much dis
'omfort SO much irritation. 80 much
riction and fret And 1t is just us
asy after you make up your mind to |
Try it-try 1t in earnest--yc who are
lways behindhand. aud see II we are
OF right-N. Y Weekly.