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Show TAKE TIME. Most people are in too much of a hurry. They haven't time to sleep, cat, or oven enjoy a short conversation conversa-tion with a friend. Some people arc almost strangers In their own home. They are constantly on the go. This, that and the other thing must be done and done Immediately; there Is no time to waste. When they come in for their meals they bolt their rood and away they go, and arc not seen again all day, says an exchange. This Isn't life. It Is simply fast existence. ex-istence. These people delight to quote the old pioverb: Never pulolltlll tomorrow what jou can do today." We think however. Dial this suits! their case better: "Don't try todoj everything today tomorrow Is com-i Ing." Justas It is better to masticate a half meal, than It Is to simply swallow swal-low a whole; so it is better to live well and completely, than to live loo fast. What dlMcience will it make in a hundred hun-dred years from now whether we try to do ten things today or only live. People who travel on a railroad train don't see and enjoy half so much of the scenery as those who go over the same section of country by team, although al-though the distance traveled is many times as great. Much of the Joy and richness of life Is missed, because we arc In such a hurry to pass It. Wc only navel over the road of life once. It Is best to get all out of it that we can. Thciearclloweis and treasurcsall around us. Let us pluck and gather some of them as we pass, for the Joys that wc miss today can never be f innd again. We do not, of course, dcslic to be understood as advocating laziness and shiftlessness. Success can not come to a person who has no purpose In life, who is not constantly working to some detinitc end. And the duties of today should be done today, but there Is no need of attempting those of tomorrow. to-morrow. This would be like plucking a rose befoie it blooms, or harvesting a Held before It Is ripe. |
