The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-02-04
In. WOMAN'S BEHALF.
WHY HAVE WOMEN NO TIME.

Men seldom complain OF lack OF time,
sut Of business hours; but women COM
plain of it habitually. Whether at home
o. absent from it, they are ever occupied.
They always have hundred things to
do; they are never able to finish, before
soing to bed. what they have planned
in the morning. Husbands frequently
speak of this without capacity to under
stand it. True, women have far more
to do than men; true, their work can
never be finished. But is it true that
they have no time? And if it be, is not
che fault measurably theirs? AS has
often been said, they have all the time
there is. II the days were forty-eight
hours long would they have any more?
Not particle Persons who uniformly
feel and say that they have no time. are
prcdcstined never to have any.
Why is it that women have no time?
Chiefly because they are without system;
because they do not take advantage OF
odd minutes; thirdly, because they are
always trying to be polite. The fact
that men act very differently may ac-
count for their usually having time to
do what they wish. While women's
Zine is liable to ceaseless interruption;
while they have no hours, as men, still,
might they not adopt some thing like
system? They generally know, when
they get up in the morning, what their
occupations will be until the hour of go
ing to bed. They should devote differ
,snt periods to different duties, and ad-
here to them as rigidly as they can. In
theory, they often do: in practice they
do not They obey impulse and the
convenience of the moment. They per-
unit themselves to be turned aside from
the thing in hand to some thing else;
anG each interruption involves thrice
she IS of time that the mere Interrupt
ton costs.
Their duties become confused, their
intentions tangled, and when the day
MAS closed they find various things neg
Aected which they had fully made up
their mind to perform. The next day,
they think they will not fail of per-
fosmance; but the same circumstances
intervene, with the same result. And
10 it goes from week to week, from
month to month, until the poor women,
constantly struggling, constantly resolv-
ing, constantly failing, get very nerv-
GUS, and despair Of ever accomplishing
what they undertake. They keep
bravely and actively at work; but the
consciousness of regularly falling be-
hind must ultimately effect their spirits
and weaken their determination. They
are inclined to attempt more than they,
or any one of their nature, in their cir
cumstances, can possibly achieve. If
they would attempt half as much, and
complete the half, the effect would be
salutary. Nothing is much more dis
heartening than the memory OF not do
ing what we had purposed A series OF
such memories will, in season, weaken
the will, and thus impair capacity.
Women are more courageous, morally,
than we are. When we should despond
and lose our hold on life by repeated
failure, they retain their confidence, and
still grasp their aim. They hope against
hope; they are cheerful in the face of
disappointment. They believe after ten
or twenty years Of never having had
time to do what they wish, that they
will yet have all the time they crave.
Beautiful faith! Sanguine women!
As an example of want of system, a
woman decides to appropriate two hours
OF morning-from 10 to 10 o'clock-to a
certain occupation. She is at it when,
NJ 1890, some ordinary acquaintance
calls, having no right or reason to inter-
xnpt her. Does she ask to be excused.
rs man would? By no means. She
thinks that she ought to see the ac-
quaintance, presumably feminine, or it
would be a pity to send her away after
she has taken the trouble to come, ETC.,
sae., in the typical manner Of woman's
syger-compassion. She sees her; she
consumes an hour or more of valuable
time, and then that engagement must
v3c deferred. The next day arrives, and
sshe begins again. At II o'clock, a let
tar from dear friend is brought in
Ell is delightful to read; but it demands
no answer at any given date. 1t has
however, touched her heart; she will
reply while her emotions are warm
She spends two or three hours in that
way, when fifteen minutes would have
snfficed chow women waste themselves
5a writing superfuously long letters!,
and again the special duty is deferred.
These interruptions continually Occur
they are Of great variety, but com
rnonly of more or less social character
and SO interfere with routine as t.
render it impossible. A man would mo-
IAfmif Of any such entertainments on hi!
Business or duties, and therefore saves
Eis time for his own use, instead of dis
limiting il miscellaneonsly among hi
.fnllows, who are not at all benefited BY
1hat is positive loss to him. The Sc
Eious mistake of women is in their effor
tho combine the social and the practical
tho be attractive and efficient simulta
-Eneously. Who has ever known woman
Aaving any relation to society to say II
- visitor, 81 have just Eve minutes Il
spare and then 1 must go?" She ma.
say, 81 am in a great hurry; have al
important engagement" and at the en'
of an hour, she will be so interested il
The conversation as to be unmindful o
E1er hurry or engagement. OCCASIONAL.
n woman is so energetic, SO practical, s.
severe as to look at her watch, and dis
continue an interview abruptly, on &C
souunt of the warning it gives her. Blu
she is regarded by her own sex as un
conventional, eccentric, unaccountable
The majority of them would rather b
behind in any number of obligation