## Wasters of Time, pg. The world is full of useless people - mere idlers, who are of no practical use in the world. Eating and drinking and sleeping constitutes their chief employment. With such provender made sure, they are quite satisfied. Habits of industry they have not; and, moreover, it is no part of their plan to do anything that is of practical value. They occasionally make a pretense of being busy by devoting themselves to hunting, fishing, or card playing. This gives them what they call a good time. Animal selfishness is the supreme law of their whole being. Woman, in her way generally more delicate and less offensive {distorted} ... same charge. There are some good for nothing women, as well as men, too many of them for the credit of the sex, with lives practically as useless as they are aimless. They can manipulate the little punctilios of what they regard as fashionable life. They know how to spend money. No one can beat them in using an opera glass or laying plans for for empty and profitless amusement. In the matter of mere show they are finished experts. And there their usefulness - if usefulness it may be called - ends. They are feminine idlers, taxing the world for their subsistence, but returning nothing to it. Estimate all such persons, of both sexes, at their true valuation, we do them no injustice in saying that they are not really worth the garments they wear or the bread it takes to feed them. Existence thus conducted is a gross imposition upon humanity. By the death of such people the world loses nothing, since it has fewer paupers to support. ![[trinidad-daily-1879-06-13-lazy-people.pdf]]