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And  how  while  we  are  studying  the  Sunday  closing  question  let 
us  do  what  we  can  to  shorten  our  evening  hours.  I  would  suggest 
that  we  make  nine  o'clock  the  closing  hour  at  present,  and  if  that 
proves  successful  make  it  eight  later  on.  Our  long  hours  and  Sun- 
day work  are  certainly  a  great  obstacle  in  the  way  of  elevating  our 
profession.  Men  are  not  fitting  themselves  with  a  good  education 
to  work  every  hour  of  their  time  outside  of  the  time  required  for 
sleep.  If  this  better  condition  were  brought  about  we  would  prob- 
ably find  it  necessary  to  make  a  rule  and  let  the  people  know  that  all 
work  done  during  the  night  hours  would  be  charged  for  at  an 
advanced  rate  and  that  no  work  would  be  done  in  answer  to  a  bell 
call  on  Sunday  by  the  men  who  were  closed. 
THE  MENTAL  NECESSITY  OF  AN  EARLY  CLOSING 
MOVEMENT. 
By  Joseph  W.  England,  Ph.G. 
Some  time  ago,  while  in  conversation  with  the  famous  brain  sur- 
geon, Dr.  W.  W.  Keen,  we  were  talking  upon  the  subject  of  the 
most  valuable  things  in  life,  and  he  made  this  statement :  "  Time  is 
the  most  valuable  asset  of  a  man's  life ;"  and  there  is  a  whole  world 
of  truth  in  this  epigrammatic  sentence.  Time  is  the  most  valuable 
asset  of  a  man's  life,  and  there  is  no  asset  which  is  more  ruthlessly 
squandered. 
The  truest  success  in  life  is  the  highest  development  of  the  indi- 
vidual, within,  of  course,  his  limitations.  But  who  can  tell  what  his 
limitations  are  ?  A  plant  grows  by  what  it  feeds  upon,  and  the 
growth  of  the  human  body  resembles  the  growth  of  a  plant.  So 
there  is  a  time  for  mental  training,  and  a  time  for  moral  training, 
and  a  time  for  physical  training.  It  is  not  enough  to  say  that  all 
three  of  these  qualities  are  brought  into  play  in  the  exercise  of 
our  daily  work  as  retail  pharmacists,  because  this  is  only  true  to  a 
limited  extent. 
It  is  the  habit  of  some  physicians  to  complain  that  day  and  night 
they  are  at  the  beck  and  call  of  their  patients  to  a  degree  that  leaves 
them  no  time  of  their  own,  and  robs  life  of  many  of  its  dearest 
privileges.  But  if  the  physicians  are  the  servants  of  the  public,  how 
much  more  so  are  the  pharmacists  who  toil  in  their  "  prisons  of 
