Free Trader Journal

Efficiency.

The spirit of efficiency hovers close to earth, having no wings worth mentioning. It crawls and digs and never flies. Wherever much emphasis is placed on dreary detail, we suspect efficiency. Nobody is able to welcome its commonplace machinery until after it is explained at great length. Then the operator accepts it as mechanical slavery. All inspiration dies.

Evil routine is a model exponent of efficiency. This is approved in some quarters as superb. In consequence, vision is converged, discernment modified, aims are metamorphosed, and over all some stars are eclipsed.

When efficiency is not too much in the way, something persists that will in time burst into clear view of all eyes that are not gazing too hard at the footpath.

Perhaps the best illustration of up-to-date efficiency is the scrubbing of floors with an excess of thoroughness as to the corners.--From Judge.

It is always more or less of a shock to a woman when she discovers later in the game that her husband really did know what he was talking about.

An egotist is a man who insists on telling you the things about himself that you want to tell him about yourself.

But, of course, a woman thinks she can play the piano well enough to entertain the kind of neighbors she has.

A girl never fully appreciates a young man until some other girl tries to get a corner on his affections.

A newly married woman is easily entertained. All one has to do is to let her talk of her husband.