Evening star., 1924-10-16

down the Washington Monument
Like a great deal Of the good ad-
vice that is handed out by inspiring
writers, we read it carefully, agree
with it all-and proceed to forget it
Nearly all men would rather wait
10 minutes for an elevator, il nee
essary, than walk up three flights of
easy steps. There is plenty Of time
and then one has the pleasure OF
bawling out the elevator man.
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Men jauntily waste more time eat
ing, perhaps, than in almost any other
way. Few will admit they waste time
this way, however. 1t is q pleasant
loaflng easily justified.
Proper eating demands adequate
mastication, you know, and taking
ones time in a pleasing place among
pleasant companions
SO, fully backed by the best medical
advice. one is able to spend a couple
OF hours at lunch, when perhaps 80
minutes would have been entirely
adequate
What! you would advocate throw
ing down ones food like a dog"
Never in the world. 1 am not ad-
vocating anything. Not for fortune
would l want any man to initiate the
dog at its meals, although l have seen
many men giving tolerable limitations
of hogs.
ANY afternoon in the motion pic
ture theaters the observer will find a
good proportion of men and boys,
successful men and equally successful
lads. 1t will not do to say that only
women and girls go to the movies"
in the afternoon.
Think of all the time happily and
wisely wasted in golf. Remember
that this term wasted" is used only
IN the sense Of the copy-book moral
ity, and as it Is construed in the for
NAL conversation of men, when they
arise to tell the younger generation
what to odo--commencement addresses
and that sort of thing.
Wasting time on the golf links and
at base ball games and at tennis and
other sports is time made again, in
deed, turned from the base lead of
uninteresting time-passing to a Elo-
rious golden hue by the magic of
transmutation effected by that true
philosophers stone-interest
Interest is the thing! When busi-
ness men manage to unscramble
their scrambled workers, so that
John Smith Is Interested in what he
does, and Bill Jones head-over-heels
in love with his work, the Golden
Age will be here
When the school authorities are
able-and willing-to pry little Sam
my loose from the cold coils OF mathe-
matics, which he hates, and let him
roam the fields of literature, which
he loves, the Golden Age in educa-
ton will have arrived.
Why do men like golf? Because it
interests them. Why do they love
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Il lean and loaf at my ease, watching
a spear of Summer grass" sang Walt
Whitman. Watch a golf ball, watch
base ball-it is all the same. 1t is
Golden Loafing.
So men pleasantly idle at music. at
reading, at radio.
Much so-called work is often no
more than q certain kind of solemn
idling.
Recently i heard two prominent
business men engage in an hours dis
cussion of whether a wagon was to
enter an alley forward or backward.
when as a matter of fact it made no
difference which way 1t came in, as
was proved later when the truck did
not come in at all
Then there is unconscious loafinp.
such as that indulged in when a GER
tain association spent more than an
hour upon the momentous question
as to whether three or four members
would escort a distinguished guest to
the platform at the next meeting,
1t is well for men that they are
thus past masters in the fine art of
pleasantly wasting time, for life is
Infinitely greater than just one of it's
components-work-and has in its
keeping many delights NOT IN ~,
business calendar Ask any business
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