Show LITERARY DEPARTMENT If I Had Time If I had time 0 O minds all dulled with sleeping I Id I'd d waken you to thoughts and deeds sublime If I had time 0 O eyes grown dim with weeping Id I'd brighten you you you-If If only I had time After all the world did not come to toan toan toan an end in 1895 did it But it was no not our fault We rushed the thing along just as fast as we could we hurried it up until it almost turned on its axis twice in one day And in spite of our energy it did not come corne to an end It is isa isa isa a contrary old world to be sure it might have obliged us but perhaps it did not 1 have the time You know there is nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing so scarce nowadays as time If someone could only manufacture a little y 1 of it what a rich man he would be J Just go to one of the large c cities ties and watch the crowd on the street Do you ever see anyone loitering only loitering only a few sight-seers sight or professional loafers The others are striding briskly out with grave faces and eyes fi fixed straight ahead j They have no time to turn to left or right they right they might lose sight of that dol- dol lar sign before re them Now and then one br breaks aks from the crowd He wants to catch that car and he has almost missed it The There e will be another in just fust two minutes but he has no time to wait walt wait time is money there is no telling how many cents he might make in those two minutes So he runs between het the carriages carriages carriages car car- and swings himself onto the car happy with the thought that he has not broken a limb during the proceeding and that the dollar sign is two minutes nearer Perhaps ps you wish to take the car your your- self You are probably a woman and have the usual number of II bargains wrapped neatly in brown paper The car is is half a block away but you stand and wait for it Two of your han hands s are full and andr as you do not happen to have an extra one along you dispense with the customary wave to the conductor In your innocent glee you think that he will naturally suppose you are going to board the car after waiting for it But Buthe Buthe Buthe he does not suppose anything of the kind He is waiting for that wave You nod your head at him but evidently he does not remember when he had the pleasure of making your acquaintance and as he has no time to inquire the car goes by You wait for the next one This time you wave and the five parcels parcels parcels par par- cels in your hand float out in eloquent appeal The car car- stops and the conductor conductor conductor con con- ductor reaching down grips your arm hauls you up and pushes you inside Then the car starts again with a jerk You have just time to divide your purchases among the passengers and sit down in the ne nearest mans man's lap You do these things with the usual grace but butare butare butare are m much ch chagrined on discovering that the gentleman who has so kindly given you a comfortable seat is not the handsomest handsomest handsomest hand hand- man mar man in the car I You also discover discover discover dis dis- cover cover that your new new spring bonnet reduced to ten dollars has has been re reduced reduced re- re reduced still lower and and- that your packet of pins has struck your you your bitterest enem enemy in the eye Of co course course sh she thinks you you did it on purpose and gives another parcel at her feet a vicious kick That breaks the string and your two dozen 1 spools of Clarkes Clarke's O. 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T run races with each other all over over the floor Y You go home flushed and unhappy Being a woman you yon probably indulge in copious weeps And all because we are such a progressive ve race that even the street car conductor has no time to wait until we weare weare we weare are seated I INo No time no time Why is it that we have no time We must i scramble and andi jostle elbow our way through the crowd and nd push our brothers as aside de or else someone else will get our bread and butter We have no time to eat so we swallow our food whole no time to sleep so our brains work all night long no time to do anything but II rustle It And so so we rush to our work in the morn morn morri- ing There is no no time to say a kindly word to the ill-clad ill little liHle urchin crying Paper r sir no no time for more than a pre pre occupied occupied nod when we meet a friend no time for e even even n a cheerful good morning to our fellow So all day we grind away and at night tired and abd and worried we hurry home still stil thin thinking king of business There is no timeto time timeto to behold J The sunset gleaming as amber cloud clouds Oer O'er all the Western sky sky sky- j oj No time to watch I t Queen Luna sail the clouds among Now ow lost now lost now seen in brightness No time for pleasant home gatherings gatherings' no time to read any anything thin g but bitt the news newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper no time to plan anything higher nobler than how to make the pennies grow to bank notes The I he w world is is too much with us late and soon Getting and spending we lay waste our po powers ers And for those of us us us who are n not t b business business busi busi- si ness ness people who ha have our bread bread and an and butter given us us' us s' s by loving 1 working hard hands whoa who IIi have aveno no care care hut but buL t to to o follow own our own inclinations what inclinations what of us Alas we have less time than anyone else else Here is is Mary Jones f for r instance Saturday afternoon r returning turning from the matinee She from r met meta a girl-friend girl Provo Mary was delighted and s 's said id sh she would call on her as qS' soon as possible ble Sunday Mary Mary- went twice to church and as she had letters to write in the evening concluded that she would have no time to go that day Monday was school and she had a paper to prepare besides getting her other lessons so she had no time to call calf ih then n. n Tuesday was school again and there was a aj lecture in inthe inthe inthe the evening Wednesday night Mary went to the theater Thursday having fewer classes she determined to call on But she sh talk her friend stopped to with with one of the b boys boys' b in in th the hall and two hours v went rby y before she realized it There was no time left for that call Friday night Mary went to choir tice Saturday it rained all day Y and she did not go out ex except ept to the mat mat- inee Sunday she was going to visit her friend II for or sure II but some ome of the girls came in and detained her When Mary finally made that call her friend had re returned returned returned re- re turned home feeling d decidedly Hurt Mary wrote a letter explaining that she really had had no time to call school call school work kept her pretty busy But somehow the fri friend n still felt a little hurt And do you wonder Do you not honestly think that Mary could have found time if she had tried just a little lible little And do l honestly think that Mary Marv is a counter counterpart counterpart counterpart counter counter- part of pf yourself som sometimes Perhaps s it is not a very very interesting subject none of us like to o be preached to to but y yet f what I lots of good we we could do if we would only take the time we wish we had The poet was right when h he said We live too fast Why we weare I are an atmosphere of pure oxygen all the ti time e. e Instead of ke keeping ping our faces young young g t. t and bright a lj bright ight with with I the reflection of of good de deeds d we twe weare e are ar growing old with nervous nervous exhaustion r Wf We are working at at fever heat fever h at The world is moving rapidly we say and we and fret and chase hurry to l keep deep ep up with it it We take a little here and snatch a little there and in our anxiety to know everything we learn next to nothing We think we have accumulated of wonderful material a a. store until we come to examine it jt tl tr then en we find only a II job Yes it is pathetic but it it- itis is true Oh if we only had time to think a little before we think so much Then we set ourselves high ideals We want to be something great and grand That is as it should be But we wan want t to fly over the stream that sep- sep the Now from the To Be We overlook the stepping stones We are areso areso areso so wrapped up in our own aims and aspirations that we forget that others have them too Oh Oh if we only h had d time time time-time time to sit to-sit sit down and nd lo look k our better natures natures' in the f face ice and find wherein we are lacking time to realize that opportunities priceless as pearls thick as the pebbles we tread upon lie all about our path a and d because they are areso areso areso so common we pass them by unheeded Why why do we so long to do big things Little things done well are big things So nany of us want to take the world by storm We want to go out into it and make it it- all over We want to cut it out by our own pattern and stitch it up on op our own machine and trim it with Well it is hard luck to tobe tobe tobe be the only one one in the world who is absolutely absolutely ab ab- correct in all things but we must must just grit our teeth and bear it and be contented with making our reforms at home There are are missions just as great just as grand at home as there ever are re rein in the world Do souls need saving there So do they here Are there eyes to dry wounds wounds' t to heal there So are there here Are there hungry to feed in inthe inthe the he held world There er are re hu hungry gr at hO home ld T I I jj Ii There are children among us who are starving starving literally literally starving for l love ve Can you gi give e it to them There are lonely girls and boys who are perishing for want of good true companionship for kindly sympathy Can you yoze give it to them There are are foo foolish ish weak girls and boys who are going down steadily and surely for want of a friendly hand to hold them back Can you extend it There are hearts full of pain for want ofa of ofa a a cheering smile a word of comfort Can you give it Oh if I only had the time Make it Make it if you have to leave ungratified some of of- your own selfish whims Sta Stay home from the matinee and visit that sick girl Call on that lonely woman next door who travels the same monotonous round day after day Spend an evening with that boy who would otherwise fall into bad company Go to see the old people you people you you dont don't know how much it pleases them to have young folks visit them And above all an dont don't be he so pre pre occupied pied that you neglect ct your friends They have a claim on you and friendship is too precious to sa sacrifice sacrifice ri- ri fice for a play a high mark at school or ora ora ora a few extra cents in your pocket And we do not have time for the little pleasant chats we used to have do we And we forget the hundred little courtesies courtesies courtesies cour cour- that make life happy dont don't we And we we are so busy so worried worrie that we never tell our friends how w much we care for them do we I Alas Alas- poor Brutus with himself at at war forgets forgets' the shows snows of love to other men i Oh if if I I o only ly had time time time- I t r But thank God t there ere is One above who is never too busy to hear Our bur ur slightest slight slight- est plea never never too tob busy to listen to our troubles and ease our heartache never too busy to remember His love for us Our Heavenly Father always has time i I Jennie 1 Tl Turner r |