| Show Importance of Leisure in ill the tIle Scheme of Life Is there no time you TOU can reclaim from rora pleasure that really rully does dou not give lve he you much pleasure from empty talk alk at the club from Inferior plays from rom doubtfully doubt enjoyable week ends or not very profitable trips Do you realize eallie the value of ot minutest minutes A man had md a wife who always kept him waiting wailing a few minutes before dinner Alter After a time It occurred to hIm that eight or ten tn lines could be written during this Interval and he bad a ft paper paper pa pa- per and Ink laid In a convenient place lace One of the mo most t deeply appreciated appreciated lIed of our American women writers writ ers era 11 to whose attention the foregoing was Will called sees the matter from another another an an- other angle She says This of wasted time goes on to tell all this thin man over a period of years yarl In those hose few minutes a day A reader sent me the quotation with the remark remark remark re re- mark that all nil young people ought to read It that they would get so much more out of life If they did not waste so much time At the risk of ot being misunderstood I am not going to agree I 1 think we have lave already heard beard so BO much about the value of time the dangers of wasting It the bene benefits ts of ot conserving It and what can be accomplished by salvaging those few minutes here hert and there so there so much that we are In danger of forgetting that time was made for tor living not life to save time Time like money Is only worth what hat we get out of It And 1 I see leo so many people In this hectic day daJ so preoccupied with the matter of getting getting get get- ting the most out of their time that they are not living at all It is right that young people should be ti taught tight the pity of waste In time as In anything else the else the folly of not taking advantage of the opportunities opportunities op op- open to them In their formative for tor- native years for mental and bodily growth of ot heedlessly for tor some foolIsh fool fool- I Ish h pleasures turning their backs on OD ODthe the benefits that are open to them But nut there Is a time for tor work an and anda a time for play And the constant preoccupation with snatching for tor profit every leisure moment begrudgIng Ing time given to real leisure Is to tomy tomy tomy my mind the source of ot many nervous nervous nerv nerv- ous and physical Ills I have seen seeD strung high-strung young people who hn had been Impressed with the Idea of ac ae- counting for every minute restless and nervous at wholesome I have seen them unable to really rest because their minds always al ways wars on the minutes could not be attuned to relaxation They had been taught that rest rut can be bo achieved merely by a change of occupation The thing to be he avoided as the plague was to do nothing i Knowing I full well the Ibe condemns lion Jon I ron may be bringing upon my mr head I I must say ny sincerely that Hint one of the lessons I 1 have learned from many years which never lost sight Bight of ot the till value of a minute Is II that one of or th the most wholesome healthful and constructive constructive con con- things thing we cnn can do with Ith some leisure minutes minute Is Just doing nothIng noth Ing P PC C. C D Doll nn ll Syndicate W U Ser lea |
