Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1910 — HOW TO GAIN TIME. [ARTICLE]

HOW TO GAIN TIME.

Only Way to Be Sure of Leisure Is to Procrastinate. The only way in which one can be |ure of gaining time is to procrastinate. It Is only the few hours immediately in front of you, gained by putting in its proper place employment which was on the point of engulfing your leisure, that you can be really sure of having to do with as you wish. There seems no other way of taking time by the forelock. If one does at once the work which will have to be done eventually one lets time get a start so considerable that one is in danger of not even catching time by the heels when one is at liberty to start in pursuit. This makes time stand for leisure, but what better thing could any one stand for, leisure being not idleness but breathing space In which to recover from one’s panting run, to reckon the distance one has come, and to weigh the value of the things gathered on the way. If we are unable to face and use leisure, then the race should be called off, for It had seduced us to flurried scurriers, busy without rhyme or reason, procrastination in unavoidable duty, lying directly before us. Naturally one must procrastinate with taste and discretion. To postpone everything is as unintelligent as to do everything. It is looking work in the eye coolly that is to be encour aged and not dropping one's eyes out of respect merely because it is work, and stupidly taking it on because 11 says it is a duty. Perhaps it is nothing of the kind. Any way, a caval lei waving of it into the limbo will show the stuff it is made of, not to men tlon its seeing that you are not a per son to be bullied. If it still hangi about you can tell it to come back to-morrow; you may find a moment tc give it. If it fails to turn up a second time ten to one it was no duty at all, and when you told it to be off 11 thought its disguise penetrated and Tan in a panic of being discovered We have built up somehow an exaggerated worship of work, until it is don« blindly, breathlessly, as though then was something inherently Immoral is stopping for a moment to see what kind of work it is that we are doing It is a spineless person who cannot retain the whiphand over work, or al least manage when overofflcious work attempts to catch us to escape with a taunt and slyly protruding tongue.— New York Evening Post.