Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-03-14


whom he knows. and who would be |
glad to see him. And when he at last |
tears himself away from the cigar store |
and goes to the hotel, he has hardly set |
tied himself down in one of those lux
urious leather-upholstered chairs with |
which the lobby abounds before vague
feeling comes over him that the boys |
need him at the club to make fourth |
at whist But these things do not worry |
him nor make him dissatisfied with his
lot He realizes that no man has ever
been able to be in two places at once,
and as something has got to be neg
lected, it might as well be one thing as
another.
To keep up with current literature is
an absolutely impossibility to the man
of leisure, so he reads little of this and
little Of that and gets smattering of
most all Of It To the newspapers he
can only devote time enough to read
the headlines, which put his mind in a
sort of preparatory state for absorbing
knowledge of passing worldly events
by social contact
The demands of society upon the time
of the man of leisure are absolutely
preposterous 1t seems to think because
he has nothing TO do that he has always
ample time, which, as may be seen, is
an egregioEe error. 1t seems to think
that because he has no Office to demand
his hours, he is on tap at any time the
spigot of pleasure is turned But So
ciety forgets it is hydra for which no
Hercules has yet appeared, and its
many demands may clash with each
other. So here again must something
be neglected for lack of time.
1t does not make any difference how
little the man of leisure has to do, he is
always busy-always must neglect a
great many things for the pure lack of
time to attend to them. But the un-
rufied manner in which he goes on his
way, knowing of the things which no
has left undone, is refreshing to the
philosopher and irritating to the bust
ness man. The man of leisure knows
that under the present arrangement of
axial and orhital revolutions of the
earth most suns must set on things I'M
done which should have been performed
before the shadows were shortest; so he
bows to the inevitable and at night LAYS
him down to sleep with the serene con-
| seriousness that, as far as has been in
his power to make it so, the day is COM
| plete.
Should there by any confederation
| of circumstances happen to be an abso-
lutely idle half hour or hour on the
hands of the man of leisure he is never
at a loss to use it. Such instances are,
of course, rare, but he is always equal
to the emergency, and when they occur
passes them in the placid enjoyment of
the dolce far niente unknown to the in
dividual to whom this world, either
from choice or necessity, is world of
| work.
When the failure of engagements or
| misconnection of appointments gives to
the busy man such an idle hour he is
embarrassed and has not the slightest
idea what to do with it Helooks upon
it as so much valuable time wasted
which he can i'll afford to lose, and he
frets and fumes and wonders what he
can do to fill the gap. The time is really
too short for him to attempt to do any
thing or go any place, yet how intermin-
able it seems when he must helplessly
sit down and wait for it to pass Weigh
ing the fight of time in the money
changers scales, he feels that he has
suffered loss that can never be re-
gained. He has not time to waste in
in this manner, and would not waste it
so If he had, could he possibly avoid 1t.
The whole trouble lies in the before
mentioned lack of time. If man has
nothing to do, and only half an hour
or an hour in which to accomplish it,
he almost attempts an impossibility.
But if he has whole day for an hour
idleness, how easy it is! Time will fy
on wings of gauze without the least
effort on his part, and the blank space
in the days programme will seem as
short as morning nap or summer va
cation.
This is the whole secret. To do moth
ing, and to do it.successfully and plea
surably, a man must devote his entire
time to it, and even then the days are
too short. He must be willing to give
part of his nights to it If necessary for
his correct achievement of beneficial
? and judicious idleness
! Now there are two distinct classes of
men of" leisure. The first of these,
and probably the original is that class
which is idle simply because employ
ment is not necessary, and it's members
do not know any better. Such persons
sleep the greater part of the time, and
never think because of the lack of the
) necessary apparatus. But this is prime
val, barbarous and anachronistic; it is
! relic, or rather a taint of the times
when man ate his food raw and had no
artificial light 1t should be frowned
down, because there is no enjoyment In
this kind of leisure, All who are idle,
simply because they don't know any
better, should be made to go to work,
and thus make room in the ranks Of the
army of rest for these who can appre.
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