New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
JUDICIOUS IDLENESS.
s Plea for Less Hustle" and More Serenity
of Mind

All. these Americansi Everything IN England
that is vicious trying or new. from the high
prices IN cotton TO the freak dinner. Is attrib
uted to this upstart people from overseas. 'Hus-
Ting" is one Of the novel importations for which
the English have 10 thank the Yankee. That they
are not particularly grateful IS be gathered from
what one Of their leading social journals says Of
the great American gift Of hustle:
The spirit OF hustins.' which has come to Us
from America. is absolutely demoraEzing
social life and our mental powers. There Is
doubt that 1t time for England in her national
and commercial life to wake up, but behalf OF
distracted femininity I only echo the words OF
the sluggard. You have walked too soon;
must slumber zgaia.' Physically and mentally we
are not equal to the strain the civilization OF the
day puts upon We want TO slumber and dream
again We work and talk and read and rush more
than enough.
Getting and spending. lay waste powsrL
We have time to get outside ourselves to form
our own judgments build UP our nervous VI
tally. 10 order our life.
we must always be busy appear to be
When we go to bed without having had time to
read the newspapers conscious OF a sort OF
moral exatatiOn. the result Of having got through
so much Nobody ever heard OF a man who had
not time to skim through the news Of the day. no
matter how much business he had TO accomplish
but nunberIess women during Christmas week had
| not the least idea whether Japan and Russia had
| gone to war not. I do not believe that we
actually get through very much more than our
grandmothers. though We certainly give that I'M
preston. There have been energetic women in
| every age. Horace Walpole wrote OF the famous
Duchess Of Gordon. She Is absent from a
public place. and the later the hour so much the
better. 1t is often o'clock IN tbs morning before
she goes to bed. and she never requires more than
| Tour or I'VE hours sleep. q. Last Monday she
first went to Handlers music in the Abbey, then
| clamOered over the benches and went to Warren
EtasungSs trial in the Hall, after dinner TO the
/ play. then to Lady LUcans assembly after that to
ttanelash tGardens)s and returned TO Mrs. Hobart
| faro table. gave a ball herself in the evening OF
that morning. into which she must have got a good
way, and set out for Scotland next day
| Even the hardest worked society woman Of to-
| day can scarcely break that record OF feminine
/ energy yet the famous duchess, well being a
/ leader OF fashion. found time to teach her five
daughters 20 manage not only her domestic affairs.
/ but the greater part Of her husbands estate, in
tereStng herself In the tenants experimenting the
dairies and training her dependents to habits of
industry In spite Of which there mention OF
her having some through the most elementary form
/ OF rest cure Nor were there any electrical APP
planes In her time for restoring exhausted tissues
| treated for to-day
w neither We are physically inf zrzOr 70 grand
mothers or not, II Is fact that the OF this
generation are undOOtedy suffering from too much
| occupation. The listless. bored. disconnected,
settled GIL OF twenty years has given place 70
the restless energetic and positively desperate bust
ness woman thirsting for fresh outlets for enter
sanitary inspectors or minor phianthropists. to 90