Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1894-02-02
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Friday Morning February Q, lS9
THE 81 WING OF TINE.

There are certain conditions which make
the saving OF time Q more difficult and com
plex task than the saving of money. The
latter need not always be spent for immedi'
ate results-it can be put away for future
use, or given away for the use of others, or
len behind Tor the benefit Of successors.-
Time has no such possibilities. 1t cannot
be held, or hidden for safe keeping, or put
out at interest, or bestowed upon friends or
posterity. We can spend it, waste it, use 1t
as We will, but never keep it Tor ourselves
or others. The moment slips away, the
hour has sped, the day is over, the year is
closed, life itself is gone, and though results
are left for good or for evil, the time has
passed away forever II has been spent, and
its only value lies 10 the way in which we
have spent it, from moment TO moment.
What then Is meant by saving time? Sim
ply 50 to improve its opportunities as to pro.
duce the best results. There lie one very
common mistake made just here. Many
persons suppose that this can only be done
by uncensing employment. To save every
minute of time means to them 10 work every
minute, and all time spent otherwise is prac.
tcally lost or wasted. II is with regret that
they see the necessity Of sleep and other re
freshments. and they conscientious reduce
these to the least possible amount, that they
may lose no more than they can help. But
II our test is in the quality as well as the
quantity Of the results we shall find that
much time Is actually wasted by very in
dustrious and busy people, who suppose
that they are saving every minute. Truly
good work Of any kind can only be accom-.
piished when the faculties used are in
sound and healthy condition. If the labor
er's arm be weak and his frame fatigued his
blows cannot be firm and strong, II the me
chanic lacks skill and judgment his work
must be inferior, IL the artists eye be de-
iectiSe bis picture cannot be true, !: the
authors brain be weary he cannot realize
his hest possibilities Yet each of them may
be necessarily toilIngsand, IS they suppose,
not wasting q minute, while in truth they
are wasting precious hours by not bringing
their intelligence to bear upon the real need
ni their work.
Over-strained faculties can never bring
out the best results, over. work is always q
waste OF time, and though it may not seem
10 I've 80 at first, eventually the sad truth is
always manifested. To cut of needed rec
reaiion, TO curtail the hours Of sleep, to post
pone u vacation indefinitely, to refuse to
take rest and ease and change, under the
plefrthat thus time 10 saved, is q great mis-
take. The time arrives when the poor
abused faculties take their revenge and re-
fuse TO serve altogether, or to do il 10 so fee
BILE fashion as to show their deterioration.
Time can only be truly saved when 1t is
well spent, and only well spent when we
are in the right place, developing those fac
uliies in which We most excel, and thus
raising ourselves 10 value IS the years 60
by. What we do will always correspond
with what we are, and the thorough cult
Walton Of health and welfare in their best
sense is as necessary to the excellence and |
success Of our labors as It is to our personal
happiness.