The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-28
The Lack Of Time.

1t is probable that if some good fairy
should appear to us overworked and over
driven moderns aud offer us the gratitiea-
pleasant way i'll Wonderland, we would
take, as our first choice, more time. And
this would not mean that last, awful,
palpitating hour when we shall stand Oh
the threshold of death, and when all that
the world can offer of riches, or beauty,
or honors, we would give for mere
slengthening. of the:span of life. 1t means
that the days are all too short for what
we have planned to do, and that the
burden of every excuse for things neg
lected and things lily done is the lack of
time.
There arc so many things we intend
to do when we get leisure that sometimes
it seems that we have put off Ill the no.
BILE resolves. all the white things and the
bright things of. our. aspirations to that
future that never grows nearer, but
uances on before us, Il -o'-the-wisp,
that constantly cludes us as we so for
ward. Not always are we going to be
begged i'll earth mire. We are going to
think better thoughts, we are going to be
kinder, and more patient, and more cheer
ful after a Bit, Now the days work
presses so heavily upon us we have no
leisure for serene thoughts, and if we
are impatient and cross-well, we are
mentally and physically overdone, with
nerves stretched to the swapping point,
Of course we realize that Jamie's man.
-ners need reforming, and Tom is grow
ing into big, rough. boy, and Mamie is
getting pert and fast. We don't intend
to let our: children grow up that way
time we IRE going to train Jamie to be
more courteons; we are going to have
'iong talks with Tom, and try to awaken
IN him higher ideals, and teach Mamie to
be sweet and gentle, but, pray, how can
Woman who does the work Of two
eamstresses to keep her children tucked
and ruffied and bloused as much as the
her house,, and belongs to club Or two,
and runs the church sociables, do another
thing? There simply lsh't time for it,
unless ali extension could be put to the
1T has always been the same way. We
remember how it was when we were
girls. We were always intending to help
mother. 1t grieved ,us-when we hap
pened to notice ito see that she grew
thinner year by year; that the patient
eyes grew more wistful and the thin
hands became at length almost trans
parent. Sometimes she talked about stop
ping and taking rest when she got time,
but she never found the place where she
could lay her burden down until she
found it in the green mound where not
all our tears Or self-reproaches could
reach her. If we had only taken time to
help her, time idly. spent in round of
trivial pleasures, we might have kept
her with us a little. longer We thought
then we had gotten a lesson we should
never forget, but we didn't. 1t is just
the same now. We are still waiting to
find time to say the kind word; to tell
some one how +h we t1ye ana p
pleasure to some lonely one; to sit with
our children in the twilight, and show
them TINT very heart of d mothers sa-
cred love. without which all care for their
3odts ~ out tSrt th; eha We 4 tIe
meantime we have leisure for a thousand
lille schemes, and plains that, like BOOM
eraiAgs, .-retufii to iiijure us.-New Or
leahs picayuiie.