COMMON INCAPACITIES.
[To THE EDITOM or THE " SPECTATOR.")
read " Scotus's " letter in the Spectator of January 5th with interest. I too am afflicted with the painful " virtue " of over-punotuality, and am married to a man who is a procrasti- nator of the first order. The result is for me a petty martyrdom in everlastingly waiting for meals, losing trains, missing appoint- ments, &c., but I do not agree with "Scotus" that the procrasti- nator has many friends. I have many times endeavoured to ap- pease my husband's friends whose patience he has exhausted, and who cannot understand that his apparent disregard of their con- venience is due to no lack of goodwill towards them. I have strenuously endeavoured to cure myself of my habit, but find after nineteen years' married life I am still as irresistibly punc- tual as ever. I think this helps me to realize that it is equally impossible for my husband to change, but had I not a deep affec- tion for him to fall back on, I could not tolerate with equanimity this radical difference in our characters, which I am convinced would strain the bonds of mere friendship' to breaking-point.—I
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