Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — THe “TARDY MAN" GETS A DRESSING [ARTICLE]

THe “TARDY MAN" GETS A DRESSING

Brother Huff in the Monon News Goes After This Common Type _ * of Public Offenders. Monon News. Do you know the tardy man? Of coarse you do if you have been terested with him in a committee meeting or some other conclave where his .presence was essential to the performance of Some specific work. At some time you have known him to your vexation and heartily wished to yourself that he had never been ushered into this vale of tears just to increase the woes of others, who regard punctuality a virtue of no mean importance. Tardiness soon becomes a habit and the tardy man is habitually tardy. He infringes upon the time of his co-workers as though it were his own in fee to waste at his own good pleasure. We are admonished that time is money. If this be true, compute if you can the vast silms that have been squandered by the tardy man. He is usually a lovable fellow except for this besetting fault and the plausibility with which he makes excuse for not being on time, makes your pent up anger toward hint disappear like snow in an April sun. Why the tardy man should be so otherwise lovable is a mystery. He has caused more ill temper than all the petty offenders of the race, and yet he beams and bows so gracefully and winning that our standing 'committees can’t do without him. >So there can be no deliberation of consequence without him and he always puts in his appearance softer all the rest have lost their patience. But the tardy man has come to stay and what can’t be cured must be endured.