Arizona republican., 1910-11-10
socIETY's HUMAN BRAKES.

Human brakes are to found wher- ever the wheels of human action at tempt to go round, says the New York
 Evening Sun. These are the folk whose constant effort is directed to retard what the rest of the world is doing, whose habit of mind produces one continuous cry of Not so fast, my friend; you are counting without mel" Rise up some fine fall morning with the blood singing in your veins and start out to spin things around. Keep count until dark of the number and variety of human brakes you en- counter, and the result will leave it a matter for gaping wonder that
 anyone effects the simplest result.
 The motor power that goes to waste overcoming the checks of these clogs
 would found an empire in the heart
 of Alaska tomorrow
 The most common or garden variety
 of human brake is the variety which is afflicted with an anxious self i'm portance. It is to found in every walk of life. There is the cook who lets
 the cream sour rather than set it on
 the ice, because it is the upstairs u,
 the business man who keeps his caller waiting in the outer office while he finishes a cigar within lest he lose
 caste by accommodating him too
 quickly. To this class belongs Pat,
 the new foreman, who sets his former fellow workers to lifting stone into
 one pile and dropping it down again into another to show his authority, and the officer of an institution who
 insists upon a careful observance of
 the rules that red tape has dictated when emergency is crying loudly for relief. Plumbers belong notoriously
 to this class of brakes, Insisting that all shall be done with due regard to their dignity, with no haste and no overtime, though deep calls to deep because of the noises of the water
 pipes and the coiling threatens. Phy- sicians to whom a quibble of profess sional etiquette is more than the life of the patient; saleswomen who so usually are engaged in putting away their stock when asked to serve a
 hurried customer; that society woman who fears to serve this or that charity
 because of the social status of those already at work: these self-important human brakes are with us always
 Next in numbers and malicious ac-
 tivities come the professional objec- tors, they of the inversion type of mipd. Do you wish to drive, they think it best to walk, do you decide to buy house they are all for renting do you plan a trip to South America, they argue eloquently for a European in,h ;,, ha; lies the notion that their opinion is founded upon righteousness, that yours is the natural emission of a perverted nature. Unfortunate crea- lures that they are, they cannot enter "a room without changing the angle of the shades, without opening or closing window. They cannot hear the menu for dinner without suggest ing one more appetizing and whole some. What, then, is to be expected of them when they are forced to con template course of action in wig orous execution? They are unfor- tunately seldom lacking in energy They proceed to apply themselves as brakes with all the strength of their anto- convictions Not content with retarding, they set themselves to spinning the wheel the other way round "All that is. is wrong" is their motto, and watch me make it different"
 The good folk who are never on time are brakes of an exasperating make, who have received more than their share of opprobrium. At the worst their iniquities only retard mat ters an hour, or an hour and q half or two hours. Their beculiarity is that they belong to such an estimable race Of humans, a housewife to whom disordered room only differs Tn degree from forged check. or the best fellow in the world who would take his coat off to give it to a street beggar. if his wife did not restrain him. Yet either will cheerfully keep its corners of the universe in a tur- rioH by turning up to keep an ap- pointment whenever nothing else more immediately pleasing offers itself. The housewife will keep a devoted husband waiting to meet her by the chairIess ribbon counter for an hour on end while she happily matches worsteds that she may need next month. or the good -natured man will be unavoidabIy detained for an indefinite time play ing solitaire at the office while his wife struggles to entertain his dinner guests at home
 Last of all, but not least, are the human barnacies, to whom any form or activity is repugnant who object to action for it's own sake and i'm pede 1t by clinging. These are they who never keep an appointment if they are once persuaded to make it, to whom no social event is pleasant enough to stir them from an after noon nap and no business of sufficient importance to interfere with their carly morning slumbers. Whole rows