The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-11-27
by Robert Jones
Water falling day by day.

Wears the hardest rock away"
The author of Many Things"
learned the value of spare moments"
when child. If l should never write
except when l find 1t right and prop
.r 10 take plenty of time from my
work hours and study hours. then
YOU would never read these patch
work" articles.
| do most of my writing very much
like the ladies make their scrap-qui.t
tops-star at a time. And 1t 10 re-
markable how much time one can get
together, bit at q time. and use It
like the efforts of an unbroken whole.
One of our most charming writer's
tells 10 that much Of his work was
done while waiting at depots. riding
ON trains. etc. The greatest book. 20
far as l know. written In the twenti.
eth century. was largely produced in
the same way. Another claims that
he did most of his best work as an
author by rising an hour or two earl
Ter than the rest of the folks. Well,
the individual who knows how to use
one of the early hours Of each day az
spare time" gains over the individ-
ual who does not utilize this hour
forty-five working days Of eigh.
hours each day in one year. In eight
years he gains an entire year OF
365 working days of eight hours
each If | can find an average of
but fifteen minutes of spare time
every day, in one year the whole
amounts to more than ten days o.
lit working hours each. Our
SCARE moments are like the bricks
THAI 20 into a great building-One
does not amount to much, but the
whole building is that one repeated.
SIXTY spare minutes makes Il
spare hour twenty-four spare
| hours reall, MAKE tni,c working
days of eight hours each, instead Of
uHc You see how spare moments
accumulate?
4 ,hc We 0 ns 80. I" moments
has giycn ,Ap sni4e wholesome in
attY,tiun iii economics beiieI,
'ast y, Us VI Id Ave On what We
W.St2, II w but 'fnrw bow TO util-
n Il rhcy tea me that the bcsl
iHele Of s{ral Is madc from thai
art 81 the ore which, until recent
) x, Was considered useless In cot
an-olI mill | saw many bales Of
cotton made from rc-einning the
Sced And then when | saw how ev-
, cry product Of the green seed was
being utilized, | didn't wonder any
more that the seed from a bale Of
cotton is worth more than $25. |
remember, so do other young men,
WHGu 'OtNOH oCcu Wclc HuIuIy WUIlu
hauling from the gin! The Legisla
ture Of Georgia once passed law
prohibiting the throwing of seed in
to the streams of that State, the
farmers seeking this method of dis
: posing of what was considered
! worthless. Ninety-tive per cent o.
!. the heat generated in our CRATES
!: goes up the chimney; Is per cent o:
. the power generated by our engines
s lost in Ovcrcrowding friction. We
: are great spendthrifts. but we do
not know it yet.
3 | have compost heap. ISOme OF
; Nou farmers sons don't know wha,
: Tat is. Ask your pa if he Nnows.l 1t
. my rule to put on my heap T.,
: pounds OF valuable fertilizcr-product
each day. In $40 working DAYS il,
enc year, have saved one and a
: quarter tons of high grade fertilizer.
. - - WI VI NHiic. Ou!y lew spare
moments every day and the waste
8 matter about the premises. That doe.
3 it
You smoke. Il am sorry. Now. /.
; You use but one cigar day, at i've
3 cents each, your cigar bill is slS.o;,
: ~ the year. 1t takes you fifteen
nilnutes to smoke your cigar. then
while you are smoking you ccrn
read several good books; or write
several books, provided you know
now. a man of ordinary ability can
memorize the entire Bible more thar,
once. while you are smoking. If Won
smoke but one cigar day for fiftv
years, you will have burned up ST.
to0. But every 81 at compound in.
lefest at four per cent more than
doubles Itself in eighteen years. and
IL elSht Per cent it more than
doubles in ten years. That is on,
d the ways we burn up biz sun,
o. money, "a little at time"