We are apt to be always in a hurry now, for obvious reasons which hasten the movement of life, but not many really know how to use time to the full.

Our tendency is to alternate periods of extreme activity with intervals of complete prostration for recovery.

Perhaps our grandparents knew better in a slower age the use of time.

The old Marquise de Gramont, aged 93, after receiving Extreme Unction, asked for her knitting, for the poor.
"Mais Madame la Marquise a ete administree, elle va mourir!" said the maid, who thought the occupation of dying sufficient for a lady of her age.

"Ma chere, ce n'est pas une raison pour perdre son temps," answered the indomitable Marquise.