THE PATIENCE HABIT.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 24, Issue 19, 11 March 1913, Page 2

THE PATIENCE HABIT.

Yon would be surprised to hear of the number of people in great positions to-day who may be found seated at a card-table all by themselves and spending hours at patience. Some of these men carry their packs of patience cards with them whenever they go, and are delighted to have half an hour at the game while they are waiting for a big meeting and a big speech.

Perhaps the finest mind on the judicial bench in England to-day is that of Lord Justice Fietcher Moulton. Pie is not only a great lawyer, but has a great scientific mind, knows all about electricity, about chemistry, and a dozen other scientific subjects, but is also a flne classical scholar, knows several modern languages which he picks up with extraordinary ability. I heard a travelling companion say that ha saw him once pick up enough of Russian to get on with after a week in Russia, and finally this extraordinary man is a past-master of political and economical erudition. But when in his active political days he went on the stump, he always took with him his patience cards, and could be found in his room in his hotel engaged in tracing the intricacies of the game while his friends thought he was pouring over the notes of the speech he was about to make. I am told that Mr. Pierpont Morgan is an even more complete victim of the patience habit, and that during that trip on the soft waters and in the soothing atmosphere of the Nile he is usually to be found with his * pack of patience cardr\ spread before him.—T. P. O’Connor, in the “Boston CSobe.”