HOW WE SPEND TIME

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 38

HOW WE SPEND TIME

A man with a taste for figures has been apportioning the life of a man who lives 70 years. He finds of that time a man spends nearly '25 years m bed, nearly 12 years each in work and play, nearly 6, years in eating and drinking, . 6 years in walking about, nearly 3 years in dressing, 1 year and 5 months in illness, the same in reflection, in gossip, and an -/ equal amount of time is wasted: There is about one " hour a day which is wasted or given over to odds and ends at small duties. The mere act of putting on one's shoes is not considered worth mentioning, yet in his lifetime a man of 70 spends five minutes a day, 30 hours a year, or more than 12 weeks of a lifetime ! Who would .want seriously to sit down and do nothing every minute for three months but put on and take off his shoes ? Until one analyses has day ho will have no idea of time spent in locomotion, in getting from one place to another. Twc hours a day is a conservative estimate of the time, used this way. If a person spends but an hour each day .on ' his toilet, in 70 years he will have devoted three years to his duty ; and as for women, one hour is entirely too short a time to allow them — three is nearer right. "