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Show . j "LEARN TO LABOR AND TO WAIT." j "Patience is a godly virtue don't hurry the I waiter," we read cm the menu card of several Salt 1 ' Lake restaurants. It is a question if the line on 1 the menu cards ever made any man more patient, I especially if he ordered something that should be j prepared quickly, but the truth of the statement is 1 not impeached. Patience is a godly virtue, to he j sure. It is an acquired habit of mind, too, in large degree. It is easy to be in a hurry. Host people )in these riping times of strenuosity are afflicted I uith the hurry-up habit. They stay out late at I " . ;; night, hurry home, hurry to bed, hurry out in the , ! ": morning, hurry their breakfast, hurry for the car, I hurry through their work, hurry for luncheon, I I hurry to work again, hurry to dinner, hurry through an evening's amusement, and hurry home 7 again. It is the hurry habit they have acquired. .; They don't accomplish any more than they would ', if they had not acquired the habit, and they die, ; young, or are suddenly senile at an age when they . ' j.- should be in their prime. They work under high I ? pressure all the time, have no time for real recrea- i - tion, and when they are gone the world mourns the I -ii departure of so promising a young man. I - This hurry habit gets on the nerves. ' It un- i. ' strings them. It is the cause of much of our ill- ' ness. our dyspepsia and nervousness and our heart failures. It is a question if the high pressure hur- riers accomplish much more than half of their life's work. Certain they would last longer if they ;l would but learn to labor and to wait. The human j ' ; body is very comparable to a nicely adjusted piece . of mechanism. The most vital difference is in the i ; fact that a machine, worked under high pressure ; for a number of years, can be replaced with a new . one when it becomes decrepit, while the body cannot h ; be replaced, and it is pretty hard to repair satis- r factorily once it gets out of good working order. . But just like the machine, it is equipped with safe- f vt? ty valves, governors and regulators, all adjusted I . ' to work automatically, each part in consonance : ' with the other. Some bodies are built for heavy work, some for light work; some are capable or I " ) great physical effort, others for great mental ef- j fort. But their limitations are as well denned as I j are those of any mechanical device. Perpetual If r motion, you know, is thus far an idle dream, a vision of the alchemists. In the south and over in England, the hurry-up Is n habit has not thus far penetrated. The people of the south, or some parts of it at least, and in Brit- ' ain, are more deliberate, and yet they manage to . get along pretty satisfactorily, to themselves, anyway. any-way. The English Blue Book, the ""Who's Who in : England," not only gives the details of each man's ! . accomplishments, but it also gives his favorite pas- I ' time. A real British gentleman can hardly get j his name in the Blue Book unless he has some par- j ticular form of recreation to which he is devoted. I Of course, we know how derisively we Americans I j ' speak of those few nabobs among us who ape or I j ; attempt to ape the Briton, yet in this one par- - ticular, our English cousins surely "have one on I , . " us." j . ; ' If we should all learn to labor and to waft, J ; learn that patience is a godly virtue, that haste I l msikcs waste, that it is a long road that has no 1 turning, that the hurry-up habit leads to an early I ' grave, if we should all learn these things, and ,:. learn, too, that to disregard them is to rob each ; of us of some of the good things in store for us at ' the farther end of our journey, we would become I ; ; at once a happier and more contented people. |
