Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1912-02-13
Human Nuisances
The Time Waster


is to be accounted among the heavi-
est OF human affections.
He is unwelcome in our homes
and is literally accused in business
He is the cause of more profanity,
smothered or emitted, in business
office than any other obstacle in the
way of smooth effective business
way.
Are you busy" the time waster
invaribly asks as he prepares to
sit down for the major part of the
morning or afternoon. And having
asked it he feels that his duty is
done. He pays no attention what
ever to the hesitant answer, MN!
Always glad to sec" in a tone that
plainly hints the opposite feeling.
And he sits and sits and sits.
If his victim answers at random
he may say, I'm afraid disturb
YOU. | must be going" But he has
no such intention He stays and
stays and stays. He pours forth a
stream of irrelevant anecdote, gal
lJps his hobby furiously, and narates
in detail the story OF his life. The
unfortunate man opposite him twists
j his chair and works his fingers
staring with a strained expression,
in a very agony of nervousness, and
his tormentor, when he has emptied
himself of his entire fund of talk
aud finally departs, tell the next
person unfortunate enough to en-
counter him that the man he has
j lst visited has such ragged nerves
that he is like to lose his grip.
The time waster runs in the
morning, just to sit awhile" Every
lousekeeper knows that sthe morn
ing hours fly twice as fast as do
those of the afternoon, because SO
many duties are to be crowded in
II them. Every houSekeeper knows,
t %, that the woman who comes to
sit awhile" is good for the whole
weary, torturin{ morning In a
business office | have seen in huge
red letters on a white background
t lie reminder: Three minutes are
a long time for a visit" A house
keeper might proitably hang over
her Kitchen stove on WASH day the
motto: Il am busy. Why aren't
you?
A trial might be made of it, the
time MASTERS ere Obtuse persons
+ .ay are the only human beings
W 10 have for epidsrn'ises and
few shafts pierce their armor.
Lven the sick room is not spared
the isitdtiOnS Of the time MASTERS.
They invade its privacy, often thru
some weak-willed relative, in DISC
bedience of the physicians orders.
And because human nature is SO
weak that it dislikes to answer yes"
when a voice inquiries, Am | Dor
ina ynl?" the convalescent has a
turn for the worse. The time vast
er, robbing nim of the quiet and
the. relaxed muscles and nerves
that make fer renewed health, has
all but killed him.
A busy woman being asked by
na9azine to write her opinion of
why women break down." said:
1t is inconsiderate friends who cause
a woman to break down. tits the
person who insists on stopping
for "a bite after Their the
,heater,' who stands for that time
on her door step or comes into the
hall or n extensi n of the between
acts chat at the theater--these very
persons who steal that precious
half hour when she would gather
herself together and collect her
forces, who make a woman 60
nervously and mentally to pieces" "
That so-called friend who insists
on dragging you out somewhere
when you woull rather stay at
home and gather new strength from
the silence and the nerve relaxing
calm of your own room, the person
who holds you for long converse
ions on the telephone when there are
tears ofweariness in your voice, and
every muscle in your body aches to