The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-08-09
LAWYERS IN VACATION.

Vacation is a very different thing in real
ity from the dry definition given by Bouvier
the period between the end of one term
and the beginning of the next Some igno-
rant people think that lawyers do not need
any vacation; that all they have to do is to
make an easy and brilliant display for few
hours i'll term time, and "ralle in a pile y Of
money The race without the training, the
battle without the strategy, are what the
public look at. They see the lawyer sitting
in his chambers, Il cigar III his mouth and
his heels on Il table and they think he is
idle. These are really his busy, anxious
months of brooding, when he is pregnant
with the ideas which he brings forth in a
few hours of sharp parturition i'll court.
The lawyer is never idle, even when appar-
emily most idle. He always has 4 persist
ent file of clients who want to be told the
same thing a hundred times over, and no
never will believe that they are possibly in
the wrong. He always has Il troublesome
antagonist lying in wait for him. His eli
entS are always uncandid or imprudent.
pointing. The judge always knows too
much or too little for him. He is always
the prey of disappointment, meeting defeat
where he expected success, or what is only
Il little less mortyfying achieving unex-
pectel victory. He is the victim of close
chambers and poisonous court rooms: of
narrowing suspense, of intense mental cN-
element, of great physical strain. His la
bors invade his sleep and give him b"d
dreams, soaring his wife with cutlery and
violent ges'iculationS. Finally, with The
approach of the dos-Star, sleep utterly de
srrts him. Truly, he needs vacation. Be
ware of the lawyer who, being able to take
vacation does not. Mr.. Nohles in " Blcak
House" is The type Of these, whose desk is
truly their clients Crock
The danger Of the lawyer in vacati III is
that he will only make believe " !ecreate
law books or making business journeys
The mind needs wholly TO unbcnd with the
body. Let the lawyer loll in the shade or
swing in the hammock, swim in the surf or
rock on the pillows, angie for trout or troll
for buciiSl, play billiards or croqlct, drive,
ride, row, shoot, climb, sport with chill lrcn,
tlrt with ladies, or indulge in IN, thing els,
uEimteilectuai. Let linn live out doors and
near to natures heart" But let h III
cschcw study and late hours, convention
balls, eXccp: base ball, parties, especially
political parties, and long journeys III the
heated term. If anybody proposes Il d" little
law question, y " shoot him on the spot"
Let the Government go to destruction for
Il few weeks, if it wants to- Let him read
trashy novels, which he will be sure to for
get, and which there is no virtue i'll remcm-
boring. Let him not try Is improve himself,
hut let him induStriouSly strive for month
or six weeks to forget all he ever knew. The
brain must lie tallow or wear out. The Lon
don L0T journal once wisely said: ''lf we
had two eNiStenccS in this life, and after
thirty years of unbrokcn industry we were
allowed thirty years of healthy leisure in
which to enjoy the wealth we had earned,
the reasonable course would be to give up
youth and manhood TO severe and protract-
ed labor But it is not so: and he is most
wise who so temperS toll with relaxation as |
to preserve his mental and bodily vigor to
old age