Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1908 — This Busy Age. [ARTICLE]

This Busy Age.

“This is a busy age, sure enough,” said a man who prides himself on keeping in touch with old friends. “We get new proofs of it overy day. Not only do we find that we ourselves have less and less time to devote to this, that and the other thing, but we have It brought in upon us that everybody is pretty much in the same fix. “The other morning I had a letter from a chap whom I know pretty well. I say it was a letter. It was and it wasn’t, and in that contradiction lies the point of my remark. A bit of good fortune had happened to him. He had been given a position that counted for a lot, and his home paper had printed an item about it. Wanting to tell me of his luck, he had clipped the item from the sheet, pasted it on a piece of paper and forwarded it to me with his initials scrawled across the bottom. Five years ago he would have sat down and written me. Now he uses shears and paste. Oh, it’s all right I got the information, and that’s the main thing. But we’re all pretty busy, aren’t we?” he concluded—New York Press.