The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-07
THE HARDEST WORKERS.
Are Not Lazy People Who Wish
Themselves Rich.
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Lazy people who are foolish often
wish they were rich or famous. so thev
would not have to work. It is pre-
cisely the man who is prominent in the
world or possessed Of wealth who works
the hardest. We find that scientific
men are BY no means afraid Of work
Thomas Edison thinks nothing of work
ing three and four consecutive DAYS
ana nights without steep and hardly
stopping for food when engrOssed in
some new problem. an Occurrences of
great fre0uence. His assistants. even
those who have been with him for
years, never cease to marvel at the
wizards capacity for toll, his usual
days eXertiOnS lasting, on an average.
fifteen hours.
Look at Andrew Lang, who possesses
two d15tinctiOns-thCse Of being one of
the most versatile and one Of the most
INDUSTRIOUS Of writer's A few years
back this was his usual weekly output:
Six leaders for a morning newspaper
two humorous sketches for an evening
journal, two articles and two book re-
views and contribution tO~a weekly
Illustrated paper. In addition, he de-
voted four hours dairy to pure litera-
ture and edited a nOveHsts manu-
scripts. Mr.. Lang writes rapidly, and
is said never to refer to a book Of Eef-
erence
Engineers also, especially those en-
gagged in the execution Of important
public works, often work on, hour after
hour. until nature itself can go on no
longer Then. snatching a few hours
sleep, often taken in their offices. they
go on again. Recently a railway was
being constructed. The line was being
made entirely Of tunnels, deep down
in the earth, and the managing en-
gineer was usually in the tunnel at
in the morning and at II at II ght. When
his days work ceased in ordinary times
he was on the works for a final look
round Sundays were the same as other
days to him, and at least twice a week
his nights were passed sixty feet below
the streets.
But Il must not be concluded that
men are the only ones who work hard.
There is a versatile New York woman
who is an actress. an author an artist
and a doctor Not only does she pursue
this quartette of professions, but she
is successful in them all And EhiS is
how her day is usually mapped out:
She rises at Z, breakfasts, reads the
papers and glances over her letters At
she starts on the novel or pOsm she
has in hand. At 10 punctually she prac-
tees medicine, receiving and visiting
patients until 2, when she goes to her
easel until 6. Then dinner and an
hours rest, and she is at the theatre
ready for her cue. In addition, she IS
q, mother, and gives household duties
due attention. In spite Of all this, she
and her husband live an almost ideal
married life
Crowned heads and royalties, more
often than not, think nothing Of four
teen to seventeen hours work in a day,
for things which, by the average per-
con, would be looked upon as amuse-
ments are to sOvereigns and prominent
members of Nneir families downright
hard toll. Take, for instance, the
kaiser. From morn to evenin- re prac-
tically knows no rest-he g. ar at
work, the only recreation taIH when
he sleeps Such a man an eignC hours
work day would almost kill from sheer
iaziness. Interviews with ministers
and foreign ambassadors. the study
and signing Of official papers, reviews
and inspections, take up many hours
Then he is so many-sided with a finger
in every pie, whether literary, artistic,
dramatic or scientific, that he even be-
gTudges the time spent in sleep.
The Prince Of Wales, too, is almost
as keen a worker as his imperial
nephew. No matter what time he may
seek his bed, he is ALWAYS up and at
work by S O'clock in the morning. h
begins by tackling his correspondents.
which, after careful wedding by his
secretaries. daily amounts to hundreds
of letters-after which a multitude Of
social duties await him, then a review,
luncheon, a wedding or tOunGatOn
stone 10 lay, then a dinner and ball to
attend, and, to wind up the day, a visit
TO the opera is considered light day
by his royal highness. For each OF
these functions a different attire is nee
essary, the actual changing consuming
often a couple of hours. To go through
all this without the slightest outward
token of being bored is in Itself an