How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

fficulties. Somehow he gets nothing out of his money. Excellent flat - half empty! Always looks as if he'd had the brokers in. New suit - old hat! Magnificent necktie - baggy trousers! Asks yo

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battle raged round the question whether a woman can exist nicely in the country on L85 a year. I have seen an essay, "How to live on eight shillings a week." But I have never seen an essay, "How to live on twenty-four hours a day." Yet it has been said that time is money. That

ruly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it. You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufacture

. It is unstealable. And no one receive

as much as you will, and the supply will never be withheld from you. No mysterious power will say:-"This man is a fool, if not a knave. He does not deserve time; he shall be cut off at the meter." It is more certain than consols, and payment o

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of the most thrilling actuality. All depends on that. Your happiness - the elusive prize that you are all clutching for, my friends! - depends on that. Strange that the newspapers, so enterprising and up-to-date as they are, are not full of "How t

e can't quite manage on a thousand pounds a year; one braces the muscles and makes it guineas, and balances the budget. But if one cannot arrange that an income of twenty-fou

partments" of his daily life are not managed as they ought to be? Which of us is quite sure that his fine suit is not surmounted by a shameful hat, or that in attending to the crockery he

It is the realisation of this profound and neglected truth (which, by the way, I have not