The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-11-12
LEARN TO LABOR AND TO WAIT. 4"

patience is cody virtue-don't hurry the
waiter" we read on the menu card of several Salt
Lake restaurants. 1t is a question if the line on
the menu cards ever made any man patient,
especially if he ordered something that should be
prepared quickly but the truth of the statement is
not impeached. Patience is godly virtue, to be
sure 1t is an acquired habit of mind, too, in large
degree. It is easy to be in hurry. Most people
in these piping times of strenuosity are afflicted
with the hurry-up habit. They stay out late at
night hurry home, hurry to bed, hurry out in the
morning, hurry their breakfast hurry for the car,
hurry through their work, hurry for luncheon,
hurry to work again. hurry to dinner, hurry
through an evenings amusement, and hurry home
again 1t is the hurry habit they have acquired.
They don't accomplish any more than they would
If they had not acquired the habit, and they die,
young, or are suddenly senile at age when they
should be in their prime They work under high
pressure all the time have time for real recrea-
ton, and when they are gone the world mourns the
departure of so promising a young man.
This hurry habit gets on the nerves. 1t I'M
strings them. 1t is the cause Of much of our i'll
ness. our dyspepsia and nervousness and our heart
failures 1t is question if the high pressure hur
rers accomplish much more than half of their lifes
work. Certain they would last longer if they
would but learn to labor and to wait. The human
body is very comparable to a nicely adjusted piece
Of mechanism. The most vital difference is in the
fact that machine worked under high pressure
for number of years, can be replaced with new
one when it becomes decrept, while the body cannot
be replaced and it is pretty hard to repair salts
factorily once it gets out of good working order.
But lust like the machine it is equipped with safe
ty valves, governors and regulators all adjusted
to work automatically each part in consonance
with the other. Some bodies built for heavy
work, some for light work; some capable OF
great physical effort, others for great mental eff
fort But their limitations are as well defined as
are those of any mechanical device Perpetual
motion. you know, is thus far an idle dream, a
vision of the alchemists.
In the south and over in England, the hurry-up
habit has not thus far penetrated. The people of
the south or some parts of it at least and in Brit
ain, are more deliberate, and yet they manage to
get along pretty satisfactorily to themselves any
way. The English Blue Book, the ''Whos Who in
England" not only gives the details of each mans
accomplishments, but it also gives his favorite pas
time. real British gentleman can hardly get
his name in the Blue Book unless he has some par
ticular form of recreation to which he is devoted.
Of course, we know how derisiyely we Americans
speak of those few nabobs among US who ape or
attempt to ape the Briton, yet in this par
ticular, our English cousins surely ''have one on
US"
If we should all learn to labor and to wafs,
learn that patience is a cody virtue, that haste
makes waste, that it is a long road that has no
turning, that the hurry-up habit leads to early
grave, if we should all learn these things and
learn, too, that to disregard them is to rob each
Of us Of some Of the good things in store for US at
the farther end of our journey, would become
at once happier and more contented people.