Being late is a habit—but no one can cure himself of it until he determines the cause of his tardiness. (1) Most people are continually attempting to crowd too many chores, amusements and social or business engagements into an inexorable number of hours and minutes. Some people have stopwatch minds: some are sundial beings to whom time is a fuzzy thing, particularly after dark. (2) There are others who are deliberately late, to make a dramatic entrance or to show an imagined superiority. In Hollywood, it's been said, everyone important is usually late for everything but studio conferences. At a party, each star arrives late—in order of status. The top box-office attraction is allotted the final arrival. A psychiatrist tells me that sometimes tardiness is a form. of subconscious sulking, an attempt to get even with another person. It is also a sign of immaturity. (3) People who are habitually late are in a sense still infants to whom time and the other person's convenience mean nothing. Some unfortunates will always be incapable of being punctual. (4) A movie star noted for continually being late was invited to christen a destroyer, and pointedly informed that the Navy does things on time. She arrived promptly, then kept the admiral and his staff waiting while she spent almost an hour in the powder room. Subsequently she decided to undergo psychiatric treatment to correct her habitual lateness. But she had to give up the sessions. She was always too late for her appointments with the psychiatrist. (5) Fortunately, being punctual, like being late, is also a habit—easy to cultivate once you have decided what has made you so careless of time in the past. It is a most rewarding habit: after you have attained it you will find how greatly it simplifies living.