The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-04
EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

1.-THE only real thing I did then was to
hurry though every moment were my
last, as though the world, which now
seems SO rich in everything, held only one
prize which might be seized upon before
arrived Since then I have tried to re-
call. like one who struggles to restore the
to attain, or why I should have borne
without rebellion such indignities to soul
and ody.''-David Grayson-
What are you hurrying so for?
Do you really need to?
should stop and breathe?
Is it worth while?
1t seems to me that three out of four
Americans could put those questions to
themselves with good results
On a post card the other day read this
sage advice:
There is no time to lose in hurrying
man was not made in thirty seconds, nor
yet in thirty minutes
The philosopher of the post card did not
sign his name and give me a chance to
give him credit, but I think he certainly
deserves credit for reminding US of some
thing most of us sadly need to remember.
We often ask why it is that we do not
make such durable furniture, build such
lasting houses, or do any work in the
''for-centuries" way in which our grand
fathers did it? Have we lost the knack2
No. we haven't lost the knack, but
we've lost the time.
In a public library the other day, I
asked for certain volume and was told
that it had been sent to be bound and
wouldn't be back for two or three
months. why does it take so lOng?'
asked in wonderment. ''Oh we send them
abroad" they explained, I'VE can't get
any such work done in this country"
Why? Because Americans haven't as
much intelligence as foreigners? No, be-
cause they haven't so much time.
Thoroughly good work. no matter of
what kind, simply cannot be done in a
hurry.
I know housewives who are the envy OF
the neighborhood, because Of the amount
of work they appear to turn off, in nc
time at all. I'm thinking of particular
woman who was always a marvel to me,
until I slept in one of her beds. In the
wee srna' hours of the night, arose and
painStakingly and timetakingly re-made
that bed as it should be made-and be it
explained I am not an old maid in the
matter of beds I merely like to have
some of the clothes tucked in at the foot
and after that I understood how she
managed to turn off, so much work in
no time at all.
and tell of article after article, the price
of which has scared to terrible heights
wonder that we do not say more ABOUT
that which seems to have become more
rare and more expensive than anything
else-time-time to do work properly
time to rest-time to have friends-time
to be happy-time to live.
A little book of essays has made ire
mendous hit, largely on account of its
clever title-"How to live on twenty-four
"Ah. I must get that" I've heard a
dozen people sigh. I'D like to know how.
don't seem to be able to do it now
Isn't that in itself an excellent criterion
on our time starved condition?
1t is said of the American man, that
when he finds that his income is not COW
ering his expenses, he does not say, Il
must reduce my expenses" but II must
increase my income" Doubtless, that's
what we'd like to do in the matter Of
time But unfortunately we can't. We're
all the time there is and clever as we are,
we can't by hook or crook get any more.
The only way out is the better use OF
what we have now
How?
ready insufficient allowance by those twin
time MASTERS. hurry and worry
Remember the advice of the philosopher
of the post card-.sThere is no time to
lose in hurrying- Man was not made in
thirty seconds, nor yet in thirty minutes >