Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-24
PROFITS OF lpLENEss.
A Dangerous Doctrine to Inculcate Ints
the Thrtftless and Ne'er-do-Weu.

A Dangerous Doctrine to Inculcato Ints
the Thrtftless and Ne'er-do-Weu.
It Is often said that ''time is money! and
we know that .'money is power.n Time.
therefore, is also power, and a power OF
which we ought to make the best posi- ibla
use while we may, for, like money, this b
apt to take wings and fy. There is an art
Of economizing time that is just as impor-
tant as the art of economizing wealth, says
London Queen. Economy is to attain .
given result at the least possible cost (of
time, money or any other power) or to at
tain the greatest possible result at given
cost We have got q certain amount OF
work to do-how can we most quickly do
lit Or we Rave got q certain amount OF
time at our disposal-how make the most OF
It'll Such are the problems of the time
economist. Time economy is by no means
an easy art, we are all, whether consciously
or unconsciously, either practfcing or neg.
lecting its principles. We are all either
time economists, time-misers or time-spend-
thrifts. The time-economist Is the man or
woman who discovers as soon as possfbis
the work for which he or she is best suited,
how much he or she can do in q given time,
adopting the best and speediest methods,
and practicing the difficult art of leaving
undone or minding hfs or her own business
Again, there is the time-miser, whose OBJ
iect is to hoard time, to spend no minute
without Q tangible return. To him time is
what gold Is to the moRey-miser, tyrant,
no less inexorabls because invisible, whose
iron will hinders, cramps and finally
crush es every noble and kindly impulse.
To him leisure minute Is lost minute
His life Is regulated by infinitely detailed
timetables, which, leaving no margin for
unforeseen events, is only adhered to at
the cost OF many . precious opportu.
nifty OF getting or receiving good Such
are unaware or forget that what they cab
wasted time is often fertile of the greatest
results to the observant and intelligent. II
all that we have learned in so-called idle
moments were suddenly expunged from our
minds by some chemical process, how bar
rem those minds would often be. Who
KNOWS how much such men as Shakespeare
Scott, Goldsmith, Thackeray, Dickens and
other students OF human nature have
learned in those idle moments when the
people who write stupid little tracts on tha
sin OF wasting time would have sent them
back to their desks and their dictionaries
We all know how fertile in results is q holi
day to the weary brain-worker or intelligent
handicraftsman. What poor economy il
would be to dispense with such times Of idle
ness. Topfer, the Swiss artist-author, him
self no tdler, spoke truly when he said that
year OF downright idleness was a desira
bic element in liberal education.
"A comforting doctrine truly, but highly
dangerous to our third class of men and
women-the time spendthrift- We all
know the type, the inveterate idler, who
yawns through purposeless days, talks of
killing time and yet has pressing business
suddenly asked for helping hand. But
there Is another less obvious kind of spend.
tnrift the man or woman ever feverish
ABOUT trifies; or the other, who undertakes
long and varied programme Of work, and
sccomplishes none for want OF method: ora
third, who expends vast amount of enerpy
in trying to do something for which he on
she is quite unified. All three are like
those Of whom the poet speaks. They spend
lifetime in the toll
OF dropping buckets into empty webs,
And growing old in drawing nothing M.