Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-10

Are you, too. going the pace that kills?
No? Sure about it?
OF course. you are not one of those who
go the pace in any of the spectacular and
notorious ways. That's proved by the fact
that you haven't had your name blazoned
in print since the day it was announced in
the weekly publication of your native
town that Mr.. and Mrs John Jones had a
bouncing born to them last Thursday
night, and both John Jones. jr., and the
mother are doing nicely also the father"
Wine, women and song have had no I'M
due attraction for you. You have been as
steady in harness as plough horse of I'M
certain age far these Requirements
have been concerned. But can you plead
innocent also of going the pace that does
not make your name a byword with your
acquaintance or cause you to lose social
caste with all self-respecting and respect
able persons?
similar to that which business man from
the middle west did while on a business
trip to New York recently?
When he left home it was with the I'M
derstanding that he would be absent for six
days. In fact, things had been so arranged
at home and office that his presence was
not essential to the good order of his af-
fairs for that length of time But on the
over began to wonder how things ever
could go along with him away so long, wor-
ried himself into a seeplesS condition and
decided that he would go back in five days.
So, when his train pl5ied into Jersey City
early in the morning, at least two hours
before business hours: began in the metrop-
oils, he ran into the railroad restaurant,
spent five minutes boiling a breakfast of
fruit, cereal, ham and eggs, rolls and. cof-
fee and after he had paid for il on the
dash past the cashiers desk, got all out of
what breath he had left by this time in
making a ferryboat that was all but ready
to pull out of its SHIP regardless of a
friendly injunction that another boat would
leave in less than five minutes.
When the boat made fast at the other
side he was enc of the hundreds who con-
tended frantically with one another to be
first off the boat. and when he had fought
his way on to land he rushed forthwith to
an elevated station, ran at top speed UP the
stairs, found a train at the station and ran
for that, got off 1t on the run at the proper
station and presented himself at the desk
of his favorite metropolitan hotel on the
run. all out of patience, red in the face,
and with bad taste in his mouth born of
a stomach that was making its woe known.
After registering and demanding that he
be shown TO his room once, he rushed
down stairs a few minutes later, grabbed a
newspaper off the news stand threw a
cent at the girl hustled to a chair. though
half hundred were empty and then sat
down and read for three-quarters of an
hour.
Remarkable Days Work
When he started out to do his days work
he allowed himself ten instead of twenty
minutes to cover the distance between hotel
and office in lower Broadway All the
way downtown he worried and fidgeted for
fear he would be late in keeping his ap-
pofntment made by mail. By the, time he
reached the office hr was in a stew, and his
frame of mind was far from being con-
ducive to a calm and sane discussion of in
tricate business propositions However, his
agitated condition was scarcely, if at all,
noticed. The man with whom he was
shortly engaged in consulta ton had also
hurriedly bolted a meal after catching a
few hours of sleep at the flag end of the
night: had all but broken his neck making
a train that was being followed by several
scores of others at half-minute intervals;
had jumped up out of his seat a full min
ute before the train pulled into his sta ton;
had pushed his way right and left in the
crowds on the street if he were a brute
and had arrived. hot. irritated and I'M
strung at his office.
In similar fashion the man from the mid
die west scurried about all the forenoon.
When lunch hour came the lawyer On whom