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Show HURRY. Father Faber. in whom were united the Insight of the poet, the experience of the priest, and tho n-isiinm tvat I comes with perfect detachment from world, said somewhere long ago that it was a culpable thing for any person to permit his life to become, so crowded crowd-ed with work that he has no time for meditation, nor for that leisure which is so necessary to growth of any kind. If he were among us now, he would perhaps point out to us that Hurry has become one of the besetting sins of the day. It Is the wretched Old Man of j the Sea which bestrides the American back, and will not be shaken off. No time! That is the universal cry. No one has any leisure, not even the children. child-ren. But the most harassed, busy and duty-driven of all are the women. Whether they give themselves up to housekeeping, society, charity, art or religion, it is the same. Twenty-four hours no longer make a sufficient day. It begins to be a question for wisdom to consider seriously, which of many things, all apparently equally imperative impera-tive and enticing, shall be given up? For a giving up there must be. No woman can respond to all the demands made upon her and do justice to any one of them. And the only woman who will escape early wrinkles, and nervous prostration, and who can hope for the wen aone, gooa and faithful," at the end, is the woman who has learned to concentrate her energy, who has known how to choose, and who. has firmly given up such things as she could. If you are destined to fill a large place in the social world, you cannot give your strength to housekeeping; that duty must be relegated to some one else. If you have chosen the career ca-reer of the home-maker, you cannot make a business of society, too. If you are free to seek your satisfaction and success In literature or art, or in any of the other engrossing professions I which the modern world lays open to women, then' there can be neither housekeeping nor society duties to dissipate dis-sipate your energies. You must do what men do. Choose as wisely as you can and them refuse to be drawn aside. The man with too many irons in the fire is the man who fails. But every woman wo-man has too many irons in the fire. Is that why she so seldom achieves the brilliant success of men? |
