The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-04
THEsUMmER VACATION Is OVER.

III
The schools OF the city will commence
to-day. The home coming of the COM
psny of men, women and children who
have been away on vacation has been
going on during the past week,
and both teachers and scholars
are ready for the opening. The period
of respite with many has been Il sea-
son of enjoyment, and they return to
the duty OF teaching and studying with
srdor renewed and spirits refreshed.
With Others 1t may be different. They
may return to labor, instead OF with
pleasure, with feeling of indifference,
and in rare instances with disgust. In
either case it is wrong impression, and
should be promptly and wisely ignored,
if not elaborated. School duty should
be made pleasure, as it certainly Is an
over-shadowing benefit.
The time of recreation Is spent, and
whether or not it has served the purpo.e,
The labor that wears and wearies must
soon be resumed. Happy the man, the
woman, the school girl or boy who be-
gins the long labor with sense of eager
ness. Whoever has such feelings msy
be sure the weeks Of vacation were
not wasted, whether spent at home or
abroad. The only thing without which
a vacation is delusion has been secured.
Restored, recreated, they may enter with
new confidence upon the stern compe-
petitions of life, and may more safely push
their energies to the test of supreme acti.
vity. The measure OF the benefit obtained
by rest is the increased zest for work. I'm
less that is felt there Is occasion to question
the wisdom of the manner IN which the
time has been spent. The vacation is
not for itself, and unless the body and
spirit are bettered by it, so that one can
achieve more in the way Of duty, it mnst
be condemned as proftless and failure
A suggestion OF caution is not out OF
place in this connection. From now
until next summer is long pull, an
they will pull strongest at the last who
do not waste their strength aG the begin.
ming. To use up before Christmas the
store of vanity gathered in the summer
and tug through the rest of the working
year, in pain and weakness, is
unwise. 1t Is better to husband ones
resource, to be industrious, with
out overworking, TO set out at gait that
will not exhaust the strength before the
goal is approached, to avoid as much Is
possible the causes of trettihg, and to
make the most of opportunities for re-
plenishing daily waste. The race is not
TO the swift unless they can mold out tc
the end; the battle is not to the stron Z
unless they reserve their strength for the
time of need.
While, then, on the one hand this pre-
caution should not be overlooked, it is on
the other hand, incumbent on all to be
diigent and put their acquired energy
to use. OF the strong man strong
mans work is required AS much as he
can do he is required to do. 1t is neces.
sary to himself and to the community
that he bear his full share in
the tolls from which he NAV
obtain one advantage and the State
another. Nobody is entitled TO vaca.
ton until he needs it, and Of all men
the sluggsrd need one least. There is
no pleasure in rest when one is already
weary of doing nothing. The worker
alone can enjoy hours of leisure, and il
is as necessary that preparation for re-
creation should be made by a sufficient
degree of exhaustion in labor, rs that
WEAKNESS should be repaired by rest aud
pleasure.
lit were compatible with the temper
ament of the Americans to work without
haste there wonld be less occasion for an
nual vacations from business, and long
seasons of recuperation. But if there is
haste there must be rest, or the forces
of life will soon give out. Very
likely the best rule of living is
to apportion each days work ard re3t
so nicely that every morning finds lis
vigorous rs the preceding one; but there
is little nope that any considerable NUM-
Der of people will regulate their conduct
by 1t. Even II the most OF people should
adopt it, the reasonable desire of change
of circumstances, the increasing appre
| citation of the novelty OF travel and tie
pleasures of association of men and wo.
men whose exporter &c and temperament
have not the same shape or color as ouI
own, would make absence from business
confinement and home an occasional
necessity of our peculiar civilization
Absence from home frequent makes its
presence the greatest pleasure of life
And this, we believe, is the
feeling of our returned teacher:
and scholars as well as 9th.
ers. 1t would be sad result of the
touring and vacation OF the past months
if those now returning to their homes
and avocations did not feel that the
ant,cipations they entertained when they
departed, had their best realization in
the satisfaction of being home again.