[To THE EDITOR or ran " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—The writer of the racy article on " Common Incapacities " tells something of the evils of procrastination, or unpunctuality. There is an opposite evil—from which I personally suffer—namely, over-punctuality. Is it at all general? If I have to attend a meeting I am usually there about as soon as the secretary, or clerk, or whoever organizes it, even if I sometimes take a short walk to kill a few minutes of time before going in. My wife has the same habit of punctuality—or over-punctuality—with the result that in attending a church meeting the other even- ing she had to wait for fifteen minutes outside on a frosty evening, before any one else turned up, and came home with a chill. Is it permissible to envy those who are unpunctual and yet can be happy ? I fear the unpunctual person is the more genial, and he has, at least, the advantage of
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