SAVING INCHES OF TIME.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 52, 25 November 1907, Page 3

SAVING INCHES OF TIME.

Beware of losing or wasting inches of timo —they are the little foxes that run away with many days. So much can be done in them, and with them—often the very things for which we sigh hopelessly. -■ Fill them, every one. Kepp something handy—something that fits the interval. Remember a ■ famous law , book was written because a Lord Chancellor chose not to be idlo throughout' tho fifteen minutes his wife made him wait each day for'.dinnor. Recall, too, all the men,-noble arid* eminent, who have climbed to the heights by saving inches of time. All of us cannot hppo to become likewiso eminent —but we car. reasonably, and easily -make ourselves happy, with things wrought in the fragmentary moments which we • might. unthriftily leave vacant. In tlifi minutes one can make sensible {)rogross on a piece of lace, or embroider a eaf or-flower, or knit, or crochet part of an absorbing pattorn. Or ono • can weed a small gardon-bed/ior , tie up a straggly vino, or mend the most pressing among tho household rents, or sow a long seam at'tho machine. Of course the things done must ■- bo .ready for the doing, but keeping them ready is easy. So many;; many household tasks may bo done rticcemea) that it s««>iris useless to indicate things so obvious. Still, it may be worth., while to suggest that thcro is great 'tinie-eco'iiomy' in sandwiching tilings. If necessary to wait upon ■ and watch, tho baking, why not fill up the idle minutes with . cleaning silver or glass, even though you cannot, get half through? One maj\ get' an education munches of time. Lessons stiok all tho better for having to b6' learned in snatches. . And read'ihg,even for pure pleasure, is ever so much better dono thus—as it wore in sips,—than in day-long gorgings." There is mental indigestion, quito as harmful as physical. Still, on the whole, tho.best saving of tho

inches, is to rest in them—really rest. Sit-. ,', ting supine, yet oppressed with a sense that ' __ soon you must bo at things again, is no sort 'of resting. Instead of it, relax, mentally and physically. Look out of the window, and send your mind far away. If it is in any way possible, lie down —two minutes prone, with every muscle flaccid, does more to rest ' than an hour of sitting. Tho mind'must-likewise be at ease; Put care and worry out of i<;. -Think of nothing unless .you can make yourself . think of delightfully restful things. To lio thus -on the grass in hot weather is at once a nervine • and: a tonic. -. ■ Never- mind what, people say; —ifi.they stare, smile to yourself,: and only wish'they 'were- as wise , as'you are. Learn toi gauge' your inches accurately—then you will: not fear , to turn eyes and mind and ~ , strength'to. other'things." ' "'•