The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-12
SOME MEN MANAGE ID WORK WITH EASE Others Seem to Be Always
 Dragging Behind THE SPIRIT OF A WOMAN Verconsclentiousness in Housework Is Often Responsible for Weary
 Hours and Work Never
 Completed.
THE SPIRIT OF A WOMAN

From the New York Sun.
 Being behind with ones work" said Mir Bithilkum. lis as bad as being in debt. if not worse but there are plenty of people in that miserable situation
 " If l could only catch Up I'd be all right said one sadly hurried friend of mine this morning. but he is not the only person in the world so harrled: his is the plight of many a man, as 1t is of many and many a woman.
 Not all people are so. You see men whose duties are such that you'd think they had, as the common saying goes, more work than they could do but who seem always to have plenty of time. You go in 10 see such a man and your visit doesn't seem to disturb him at all. but on the contrary, he is glad to see you and greets you cordially.
 Work? Why. his work doesn't seem to worry him bit. He sits back in his chair and forgets it, apparently, and is interested only in you. True. there may come a moment when in some way you realize that it's time for you to go, but this impression is conveyed to you so dellcately that you scarcely realize how; and then the man who always has time to spare resumes his work. easily, and goes on with it as though he had never been interrupted. He lets nothing dis turb him.
 The Woman's Way.
 With some people being behind is due to laziness with some to oVereonscen- tiousness. the last named class including many women who slave at housework, keeping everything spick and span, and who would never be satisfied unless they did their work to the remotest flag end of every detail, always just so l wish I could get some of these women to slight something some time.
 -,ut if woman's unbending spirit of de- votion prompts her so 1t would seem as fl man. rather more Vallous creature, could free himself in some way and catch u~ and be easy. True, there are over conscientious men, too. men who must dot every and cross every t. who must do everything, indeed, just that way, and how these can escape I don't know.
 ''fhen there are the lazy men who are always behind because they never do more than they have to and over whom N q need have little concern. And then t..ere are the men not laggards but cap able of doing only Just so much and of moving only just so fast, men through no fault of their own so constituted that they simply cant catch up; but there are millions more of average men who are behind just because they have once let things get ahead of them, and for tnese last there ought to be some hope.
 An Element of Strength.
 "One of the clements of strength of the gf eat or the effective man lies in his knowledge of what to do and what not to do; he knows and realizes that ! it is tho essential things that count It may now be said for the benefit of some not truly great but whose common sense if they would but exercise 1t, can be trusted, that in many ways we give too much attention to details. Seventeen million little things that we potter over and waste time on we realize later we need never have bothered about at all so it is we'll to get the habit of not pot tering about unimportant things.
 Don't worry over anything. Worry clouds the mind and makes it impos- sible 10 see things in their true pro- portions and relations The man who worries gets no perspective whatever. He sees only the things right at the end of his nose and frets away his time over them, and very likely goes wrong about them, too
 Don't worry, whatever else you do. but keep your head on and preserve a cheer ful frame of mind In such q state you'll be able to do twice the work. But finally, the really greatest thing of all Is never to let the work get ahead of you
 "lf you see it tapping around you here and there, and piling up, you must grap- pie with 1t right then and there; don let things get ahead of you. Easy to say? But it can be done Get the habit of col larng things as they come along-that' s the secret of the whole business-and find the joy there is in doing things.
 "A great joy you will find that to be: for as there Is no thraldom more heart breaking than that of the man who Is always behind. so is there no freedom more delightful and invigorating and ex- banding than that of the man who keeps always ahead"