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Show Ar You Losing, Mark log Making: Time? A huge L-lock, now from the factory and hung up before the hands had been attached at-tached to the face, caused considerable comment from business men In a certain office as they noted the absence of hour und minute hands. "That's a bird of a clock you've got whtrc's it's markers? How do you knowl when to close up shop?"' queried one. andj another flippantly added "I don't know where I'm going, but I'm ticking on my way!" Clocks nnd People. j A more ooservant man of the group said, "What a sense of futility and ineffccual-ncss ineffccual-ncss one feels In looking at that nondulum ticking away and showing no marked results." re-sults." How like clocks wc women are as we tick away pur golden hours some ot us,' registering accurately minutes and hours of steady progression toward the high-noon high-noon of ambition others of us ticking, ticking, with no thought of regular effort and no laudable end In view. "Where would the present busy worker of the world be without the minute hand? Look at your clock and determine for ;your.alf ir those minutes arc marking worthwhile houra of accomplishment and toward a twcn.ty-four hour culmination of reasonable pleasure, rest. work, thought. Do you ever review the days, singly or collectively? Just whore are you going? Remember the clock's hands never turn 'backward, as far as giving you a new chance to mark time, for hours and minutes min-utes that are already pasfed but by looking look-ing at your clock, now. with vision and understanding. ou may make some reparation rep-aration for lost time, remembering always, however, that It Is not in trying to stpced up the hour and minute hands, but by making tho hours and minutes full, that you reach fulfilment, Twenty-four tours an hour a minute, does not mean just the samd to all of us. as far as our work Is concerned, but tho conception of utilizing each minute to a purpose and end Is the snme. For Instance, the buiy mother of jnany children has scarcely time even to note tho pasNlng of Um she, with the precision of clock- ; rark. drc&s&s. feeds, xdnjonlsluji s-cd zzz. starts her little brood off to school. This seems a trivial routine to some, perhaps In contradistinction to Dr. Kllot'a big proposal pro-posal to make education of youth a national na-tional matter but arc not both marking time the lowly mother and the ctcin president emeritus of Harvard? Some wonjeq . are so amusingly tit cuckoo clocks." They' come out and warbrr their shallow, brassy little airs at Intervals Inter-vals and fritter away the time between. The ponderous grandfather clock reminds ono of certain heavy, pompous prople wc know steady and regular, 'tis true, but oh. so slow. ?o resentful of newer, better Ideas offlinies. One could not possibly imagine their wearing a busy, cxecutlv little wrist watch: ! Twenty-four Hours a Day. Then there's the ornate. much decorated clock that usually does not run at all" like the ornH mental woman for whom every one clornust hurry, hurry leM wo fall to get to the party on tlusel Tick, tick the monotone Is Inexorable Arc you wound -up, oiled, sitting level? Do your works need repairing? Is your striking of the hour In the home or business busi-ness life a harsh Jungle, a soft chime or a trivial cuckoo? Arc you going to record true, regular, dependable time? for If you don't, not only you yourself will miss the train to happiness and accomplishment, but Just think how many fellow passengers may be left In the unyslde station of futility! |