New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-23
WHY HE HAS PLENTY or TINE.

MAN WHO THINKS THAT HABIT HAS GOOD
DEAL TO DO WITH 1T.
Some one remarked to the out-to-dinner man the
other evening that he seemed to have all the time
that he wanted to devote to dinners and theatres
and was therefore a lucky man. i-
"Of course l have time" he answered. why
shouldn't I? I'm one Of the busiest men in New
York. and I work hard. Why shouldn't / have
time / say? I fatter myself that / make the
time that devote to social pleasures, so that I'm
entitled TO it. This thing Of having time Is all
nonsense. The way to have time is TO use what
there is to good purpose
Now" he said. II want to give you an idea OF
how easy II is to make time. I'm in my office
every morning at O'Clock. and from that on to
I 80 | drive ahead at my work without stopping.
At l3O go out to luncheon and stay one hour.
That's good long time for luncheon some busy
will say. but don't think so. think 1t .
saving Of time to spend an hour at luncheon.
why do go to luncheon so late? Well that's
of my time-savlng devices. In the first place
/ find that the way to do a lot OF work Is to hit
up stone we used to say in college. and keep
1t up. II is the interruptions that count in using
up time Now. at IL o'clock I've just struck my
speedest gait and 1t would be foolish to stop then.
just keep right carving work all to pieces while
most men are getting ready to go to luncheon
There's another advantage. too. about going out
at / 30 have TO and talk with several callers
every day. Now. / don't have many callers be-
tween Il and because they all devoting them
selves to eating. That gives clear hour for
work just when I am swinging along at my best.
The callers come down in focks in the
afternoon. I'm just through with my luncheon
AT 2:3o. and see them and talk with them at
time when I shouldn't be fit for hard mental labor
BY the time have cleaned out half dozen callers
| am ready to drive ahead again with Office work.
But up to the time when you men begin to 80
home. $50 and L. have had only childs play It's
between and and and that / get in my real
work. You see all downtown is moving along
toward home after o'clock. people let you
alone. and you just break records work.
Now. | dare say that IL you were going TO a
o'clock dinner engagement you'd feel nervous II
you weren't started for home by $50 That's be-
cause you don't use your time for all that II ID
worth. | work right along till o'clock As you
know. live in the neighborhood OF Fifth-ave. and
Twenty-eighth-st At the outside it takes me
twenty-five minutes to go from my Office to my
house. l dress In fifteen minutes everything be-
ing ready for when get home. That leaves
me twenty minutes to get to my dinner engagement.
Not enough time? Bosh dress right along in
fifteen minutes. and you can go three miles IN
twenty minutes and arrive looking as cool as .
cucumber and fresh paint.
III the dinner is 73O do not leave my Office TIL
$50. II It's theatre engagement can make
It, II necessary. getting quick dinner. too. after
leaving my office at :.
"rm an early home man. because usually put
ting o bed I'm reading, or. IL unusually busy,
I'm work like to have from II BOZ at the latest
to for that. Then go to bed, and I'm up at
OF 100
TOO much like hard work? Not a bit OF II.
That's why can do hard work. | change my
plet t WORK is an exhiaratins change from be-
ing out to dinner. and being out 10 dinner Is q
fascinating excitement after work Everything IL
always fresh TO network or play. and enjoy IL.
Don't get brea hless. chasing around so? Not
in the slightest It's all matter OF habit. The
who is afraid he's going to be late when he Is
half hour ahead OF time gets excited and breath
less The man who knows that he Is going 10 get
somewhere right time Is cool seltZer-
lemonade over II. Didn't you yourself start this
conversation by saying that l always seemed to
OF mne--making every minute count for what IL Is
worth and ye; appearing TO have loads OF time to
Kill.
who knows how much can be done In fifteen min
utes goes ahead and does IL without making a fuss
about IL. The who thinks fifteen minutes is
too short a time for anything fumes around ana
drops that quarter OF an hour. one man rushes 10
a railway station twenty minutes too soon, ana
walks up and down the platform in nervous agi.
tatlon. Another man comes up one minute ahead OF
train thine and climbs aboard In a good temper.
one man drops fifteen minutes eight times day
seems to have two hours more in day than his
friend. . . -. -.
IT'S the easiest thing In the world TO have plenty
OF time II you just go about II IN me rign. way:
s. caught Pennsylvania train az >. dined WIFE
some friends in Philadelphia at half-past T. caught
the 10 o'clock train back and was In NETWORK AZ
half-past IL. had a very enjoyable evening" 100
to dine in Philadelphia on Tuesday he would go
over en- Monday and come back on Wednesday
complete wreck; It's all matter OF haoi'' say
Try Il and see.