The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-03

Vacations have come to be regarded by
most men as quite q matter Of course, and
10 many branches Of business to be com.
PEELED to go without an annual respite Of
ct least a week or two from work Is re,
garded as q serious grievance, though a
fortnight or a month spent in dissipation
or indulgence in strong pleasure, or even
that length Of time given over to simple
l%asinesS, a scarcely be deemed a talutary
regime for either mind or body, "A hun.
dred years ago, people in general content.
ed themselves with the solid t%wenty.four
hours laying down Of toll which the Sab.
bath brought them every week, aud these
6fly.two rest days 10 each year were re
garded by all except the leisured ClRssts
Of the community as ample, supplemented
by the occasional religions or civic holt.
days Under this system the workers OF
society alike manual and mental got along
quite a. we'll as they do now with shorter
week days and loI ger and more frequent
intervals OF idleness, Not a few old fash.
Toned folks adhere to the plan formerly In
vogue.
II is related Of old Commodore Wander.
bilt that he never took q vacation till after
he had passed three score and ten. Stewart
also omitted vacations till he became an
old man. The intenPity with which suClI
men devote themselves 10 business rem.
ders II almost impossible for them to be
contented with inactivity for however
brief a period. The same remark applies
to q great majority Of the giants Of business
these days. They realize that a disuse Of
power is 10 q certain extent losR OF power;
that whatever gain to ones body OF mind
may have come through needed rest and
recreation by . prolonged vacation, there
is o loss Of facility in any special line Of
work through q failure OF practice in that
line.
II is true that a good many 1ne things
may be said In behalf OF vacations, but
just as many things may be said against
them, which, II not 60 flne, are every whit
as sensible. When q man is "all run
down. whether with overwork or by die.
ease, Il is eminently proper for him 10
take q rest, II he can Afford It, and 10
keep on resting until he RECEIVERS strength
and health enough 10 settle down TO
work again without positive discomfort.
But this 10 hardly what Is meant by taking
q vacation. Such q respite is usually in
obedience 10 the direction Of a physician.
II differs from the ordinary conception Of
q vacation very much as submitting 10 A
course Of medicine does from going on a
spree. However heedful II may be to a
sick or feeble person II is difficult TO see
how a big robust fellow, whose work"
10 not merely nominal; sits 30 lightly upon
him as In no way to tell untAvofably upon
his ,physique, requires anything Of the
kind,
A vacation has It's advantages, In iIs
time and way; but itdoeB not send o man
back to his work with q new interest IN II
and a new immediate fitness Tor il. Ii
makes 1t all The harder for him 10 do bic
work, and II neCeSsltateB his being once
more q beginner al that work, without the
atimulns Of novelty which he had when he
was Inst q beginner there. "Even coming
back TO work which you like" s,ys the
County, Patson, land 10 which Won
thankfully ieel yourself In some degree
equal, there is a certain shrinking from
putting The shoulder 10 the collar again
anu HoInR stoutly At your task. There Ia
certain inertia, a certain nervous timiditv,
10 be OVERCOME" You have 10 lear,
anew TO work heartily when you don't
feel like work, and to do with your mivbi
q duty that you feel nightly like shiFkihS
Just now.
There is an essential iallscy in Ina mn.
lion Of taking ones recreation in a hmm
once d year IN preference to ap%porlionibS
II In q natural and rational way "A oTs
goes along. 1t would be just as sensible 10
suggest that any other need oil human ma.
tufe should be attended to In the same
annual and Wholesale fashion. ION TINT
principle" observes the Philadelphia
Record, at would be better for q man 10 do
all his eating, II he could, once in each
year rather than three times every day.
Instead OIL taking say eight hours out Of
tWenty.fout houta Tor sleep, he ought
to keep wide awake twO.thirds Of the
year and hybetnate like a bear
the other third. For bis daily
ablulions he should substitute On annual