The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-12
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WHY WOMEN LACK TIME
BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO SYSl en-
FOR DOING THEIR WORK.

Sunius Henri Brown Gives MS oPihio"
on the subjeet-Striking Examples Oh
How Many Women Lose Valuable Mid,
utes and Precious Hours.
Men seldom complain of lack OF time,
out of business hours; but women COM
plain of it habitually. WA&4eT at home
or absent from it, they ars eTer occupied.
They always have hundred things to do;
they are never able to finish, before going
to bed, what they have planned In Ine
morning. Husbands frequently speak OF
this without capacity to understand IL.
True. women have far more TO do than
won. true their work can never be finished. |
Rut is it true that they have no time?
And if il be. is not the fault measurably |
theirss As has often been said, they have
all the time there is. If the days were
forty-eight hours long would they have
any more? Not a particle. Persons who
uniformly feel and say that they have no
time are predestined never to have any.
Why is il that women have no time?
Chiefly because they are without system;
secondly, because they do not take advan-
tage Of odd minutes; thirdly. because they
are always trying to be polite. The tact
that men act very differently may account
for their usually having time to do what
they wish. While women's time ls liable
to ceaseless interruption, while they have
no hours, as men have, still, might they
not adopt something like system?
They generally know, when they get up
In the morning, what their occupations
will be until the hour of going to bed.
They should devote different periods to
different duties, and adhere to them as rig
idly as they can. In theory they often do,
in practice they do not. They obey impulse
and the convenience of the moment. They
permit themselves to be turned aside from
the thing in hand TO something else, and
each interruption involves thrice the loss of
time that the mere interruption costs.
Their duties become confused, their in
tentions tangled, and when the day has
closed they find various things neglected
which they had fully made up their mind
to perform The next day they think they
win not fail of performance, but the same
circumstances intervene, with the same re-
suit. And so it goes from week to week,
from month to month, until the poor wo-
men, constantly struggling, constantly re-
solving, 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 behind must ultimately
affect their spirits and weaken their deter
miaation. They are inclined to attempt
more than they, or any one OF their nat
ure. in their circumstances, can possibly
achieve. If they would attempt half as
much, and complete the half, the erect
would be salutary. Nothing is much more
disheartening than the memory OF not DO
ing what we had purposed. A series OF
such memories will, in season, weaken the
will aud thus impair capacity.
Women are more courageous morally
than we are When we should despond
and lose our hold on life by repeated fail
ure they retain their confidence and still
grasp their aim. They hope against hope;
they are cheerful in the face of disappoint-
mept. They believe after ten or twenty
wears of never having had time to do what
they wish that they will yet have all the
time they crave Beautiful faith! San
guine womenl
AS an example of a want of system, a
woman decides to appropriate two hours
of morning-from 10 to II o'clock-to Ger
tain occupation. She is at it, when al
1880. some ordinary acquaintance calls
having no right or reason to interrupt her
Does she ask to be excused, as mar
would? BY no means. She thinks thai
she ought to see the acquaintance, presum
ably feminine, for it would be pity II
send her away after she has taken the trou
BILE to come, ETC., in the typical manner o
woman's over-compasslon. She sees her
She consumes an hour or more OF valuable
time and then that engagement must b
deferred. The next day arrives, and sh
begins again. AT IL o'clock letter from
dear friend is brought in. 1t is delight
full to read, but it demands no answer a
any given date. 1t has, however, touched
her heart. She will reply while her emo
tions are warm. She spends two or thre
hours in that way, when fifteen minute
would have sufficed chow women vast
themselves in writing superfiuously Ion:
iettersD and again the special duty Is de
ferred.
These Interruptions continually occur
they are of great variety, but commonly o
more or less social chaFacter-and so In
terfere with routine as TO render it lmpos
sible. A man would not admit of any sue
encroachments on his business or duties
and therefore saves his time for his owl
use, Instead of distributing it miscellane
ously among his fellows, who are not a
all benefited by what is positive loss I
him. The serious mistake of women Is L
their effort to combine the social and tn
practical, to be attractive and efficient SIN
ultaneously.
Who has ever known a woman hayln
any relation to society TO say TO visitor
81 have just five minutes to spare and the
Imust goS" She may say, Il am in grea
hurry; have an important engagement
and at the end of an hour she will be SO IL
terested in the conversation as to be ur
mindful of her hurry OF engagement. O'
casionally woman Is so energetic, S
practical, so severe as to look at her watch
and discontinue an interview abruptly o
account OF the warning it gives her. Blu
she is regarded by her own sex as uncor
ventional, eccentric, unaccountsble. Th
majority of them would rather be b'
hind in any number of obligations than /
guilty of behavior so disagreeable. To
disagreeable is in their eyes, the deepest (
sins. the most objectionable of blunders.
Quick as women are in thought, rapid 6
they are in execution, they seldom kno
how to profit by the brief intervals betwee
various kinds of work. They do not ha'
time TO avail themselves of bits of tim
They are so very busy that they came
think of trifles. Their minds dwell on IN
portant iabors. They do not wish TO begl
what they cannot rinish.
Consequently, they lose nearly every ds
an hour or two, composed of divided mi
utes which they have refrained from en-
ploying on account of division. Wome
too, frequently lack executive power; the
are inclined to believe that they must {
everything themselves. They talk so il
cessantly Of having no time that the idt
grows to be bugbear, and they come fl
slly never to have any time.