Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-24
HAS PLENTY OF TIME.
A Man Who Thinks That Habit II q
Great Time Saver.

HAS PLENTY OF TIME.
Man Who Thinks That Habit II y
Great Time Saver.
From the New York Tribune.
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 theaters. and was there
fore a lucky man.
"Of course, I have time" he answered.
why shouldn't L? I'm one of the busiest
men In New York. and work hard. Why
shouldn't have time, I say? I f1atter my
self that 1 make the time that devote to
social pleasures, so that I'm entitled to IT.
This thing of having no time Is all nom
sense. The way to have time Is to use
what there is to good purpose.
Now" he said, IT want to give you an
idea of how easy 1t is to make time. I'm
In my office every morning at o'clock.
and from that on to 80 drive ahead at
my work without stopping. At 1:3O 1 go
out to luncheon, and I stay one hour.
That's good long time for luncheon, some
busy man will say, but I don't think so.
think 1T a saving of time to spend an hour
at luncheon.
why do 1 go to luncheon so late? Well,
that's one of my time-saving devices. In
the first place I find that the way to do a
lot OF work Is to hit up a stone as we
used to say in college, and keep 1t up. 1t
IS the Interruptions that count in using up
time. Now, at II o'clock I've just struck
my speediest gait. and 1t would be foolish
to stop then. just keep right on carving
work all to pieces while most men are get
ting ready to go to luncheon.
There's another advantage, too, about
going out at 1:30 I have to see and talk
with several callers every day. Now,
don't have many callers between u and
because they are all devoting themselves
mo q ri hnv for
work Just when l am swinging along at
my best. The callers come down on me In
hocks In the afternoon. I'm Just through
with my luncheon at 80 and see them
and talk with them at time when I
shouldn't be fit for hard mental labor By
the time l have cleaned out half a dozen
callers | am ready to drive ahead again
with office work.
But up to the time when you men be-
gin to go home $3.50 and !. have had only
child's play. It's between 4 and and 4
and that get in my real work. You see
all downtown Is moving along toward home
after o'clock, so people let you alone and
you can just break records on work
Now. l dare say that If you were going
to o'clock dinner engagement you'd feel
nervous II you weren't started for home by
4:3O That's because you don't use your
time for all that 1t is worth. I work right
along till 9 o'clock. AS you know. I live
in the neighborhood of 9Th avenue and
2Sth street. At the outside it takes me
twenty-five minutes to go from my office
to my house. l dress in fifteen minutes,
everything being ready for me 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 1 arrive looking as
cool as a cucumber and as fresh as paint.
IF the dinner is 40 do not leave my
Office till $3.50. If it's a theater engage
! ment 1 can make it. If necessary, getting
a quick dinner. too. after leaving my Office
at Z.
I'm an early home man. because I
usually put in a little time between MY
getting home and getting to bed in reading,
or, II am unusually busy. in work. like
to have from 1902 at the latest-to 1
for that. Then I go to bed, and I'm up at
7 or 73O.
''Too much like hard work. Not bit Of
1t. That's why I can do hard work.
change my train of thought and my direc-
ton of action completely. Work is an ex-
hilarating change from being out to din
ner. and being out to dinner is fascinat-
ing excitement after work. Everything Is
always fresh to network or play, and ]
enjoy 1t.
Don't 1 get breathless, chasing around
so? Not in the slightest. It's all a matter
of habit. The man who is afraid he's 60
Ing to be late when he Is half an hour
ahead OF time gets excited and GREATNESS.
The man who knows that he is going to
get somewhere right on time Is cool as
a settler lemonade over 1t. Didn't you
that 1 always seemed to have time to go
out to dinner? That's an a1fectation Of
n1ine-making every minute count for what
1t Is worth, and yet appearing to have
loads OF time to KILL
IT'S all a matter of habit, I tell you.
The man who knows how much can be
done in fifteen minutes goes ahead and
does 1t without making a fuss about It.
The man who thinks fifteen minutes is too
short time for anything fumes around
ana drops that quarter of an hour. One
man rushes to a railway station twenty
minutes too soon, and walks up and down
the platform in a nervous agitation. An
other man comes up one minute ahead Of
train time and climbs aboard in a good
temper. One man drops fifteen minutes
eight times day and loses two hours.
Another saves them all and seems to have
two hours more in day than his friend.
IT'S the easiest thing in the world to
have plenty of time If you just go about 1t
In the right way. The other afternoon
left my office at a quarter to 5. caught a
Pennsylvania train at 5. dined with some
friends in Philadelphia at half-past Z,
caught the 10 o'clock train back. and was
In New York at haif-past IL. I had very
enjoyable evening, too. I have a cousin
who Is different. II he were going to dine
in Philadelphia on Tuesday he would go
over on Monday and come back on We'd
nesday complete wreck. It's all matter
of habit, say. Try 1t and see."