Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-20

One Of the main divisions of human.
ity Is into slow and fast motioned peo-
pie.
This Is one Of the most serviceable
classifications the ordinary person car
make for his own use.
Just what good the list will do him
after he gets 1t finished, will depend en-
tirely on himself.
The mere making. however, will be q
great deal OF fun.
All you have to do Is take q sheet oil
paper, and lump every one you know
of into the right-hand side or the left
hand side, labeled Fast" and "Slow,
Understand that these divisions have
| nothing at all to do with mental OF
moral characteristics.
| What you are interested IN Is ply
steal motion. II you are able 10 MAKE
any deductions therefrom, that Is solely
matter between you and your Maker
1t Is interesting to know whether one
| has to deal with faSt-motioned hu-
man being, or with . aforementioned
| one.
Those who have never stopped te
think about this difference viii be
amazed. in all likelihood, by the neat
ness With which every one they know
fits into one or the other OF these Glass;
| iflcations.
Consider yonder slender young lady
who walks with all the vim and Vigol
Of a FIRE engine. To look at her nc
one would think she possessed so much
pep" as 1t is generally called.
She belongs to the faSt-motioneo
category. Every movement Is the same
Everything she does is done in breath
| less manner, as II there were not quite
enough time in which to complete 1t.
! She goes rushing along halls and cor
ridors and down the street as II the Ole
devil himself were after her, but nc
one who knows her will be at all fooled
by her haste.
1t is simply her way.
It will never do to conclude that she
Is on an important mission, for IN al
probability 1t Is no more than per-
sonal visit to a drug store soda 1oun-
tain to secure a cooling drink.
The unwary might think that II she
would walk more slowly, and take hel
time about 1t, she would not be SC
warm in the flrst place, and would
arrive at her destination in an un'
| heated frame Of mind.
There he would be fooled badly.
She is as cool as an icicle.
The proverbial cucumber has nothing
on her. as the phrase is. when 1t comes
to temperamental and temperature
GOODNESS.
She is made that way.
/
Consider, II you will, this placid Eel
low, who never hurries. and probably
would not hasten his footsteps in the
slightest If the building threatened to
His motions have the placidity Of q
COW chewing a cud. Obscure mental
! habits, probably in the depth Of his
subconscious mind. maybe are respon-
sible for his ordered and calm move
ments.
Yet 1t is impossible to say that the
mind has much to do with 1t. because
his mental habits show great amount
OF celebrity. Few persons there are who
can read swifter or to better purpose:
Most Of his friends who loan hin,
books disbelieve that he has ever read
them, he returns them so quickly, with
| out a page rumpled or dog-eared.
His habits account for that. AS slow
going as he is, physically. he Is q
speeder when 1t comes to reading words
On the printed page.
II you take occasion to ask about this
re will assert that there is little II any
relation between mental and physica
habits, and none at all between the tac'