Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-26
VACATION MOTIFS

The popular vacation season Is nearly over and many of those who have been out of the city ''enjoying' themselves have returned home. Some of them look and talk as if they really had had good time, and were benefited in health by their vacation, while others do not seem quite happy, and still others have come home tired and sick and in such wretched condition that the ''can't- getaways" who have struggled through the summer without vacation are obliged to look upon them with pity.
 Of course the benefits or injuries of sum- mer vacation depend on how or where it is spent, and it is equally true that great many spend their vacations in poor places and in an unwise manner. The fashionable. person, for instance, must go to a place where fashion is supreme. And if this per son is a lady the chances are that with the extra dressing, dancing and flirting she feels obliged to do she will work too hard and her vacation will not do her any good The fash ionable man gets along better, for he does not feel compelled to be foolish as the fash ionable lady, but he, too, does not often get much good out of @ vacation spent in dancing. drinking and flirting. Fortunately, most men have discovered that this is not the way to spend a vacation, and there is growing complaint at the fashionable summer resorts that there are not men enough ''to go around"
 But it is not only the very fashionable who make mistakes in the place and the way in which they spend their vacations Many others desert good, comfortable homes in the hottest of hot weather and seek some place where they can spend hard earned money for high priced discomfort. They go to such a place in crowds. The situation may be good, and apparently healthy. But they drink different water from that they have been &C., oustomed to, eat heartily and often of food they ought not to eat at all, and labor hard to enjoy themselves. AS result in many cases sickness comes and the vacation from which so much was expected proves to be great injury. One danger of huddline to- gether in great hotels with deficient sanitary season by the breaking out of typhoid fever. and the prevalence of "malarie' at some of the summer resorts. Children are especially apt to suffer at such places
 But, the gentle reader will ask, what would you have us do? We must gs somewhere.
 Possibly, but we venture to say that there has been no more healthy ''summer resort" and few more pleasant ones this year than New Haven; and most of those who have
 been obliged to stay in the city have got
 along very well. They have escaped the vexations of life in a crowded hotel where the rooms are so small that one can hardly turn
 around with safety in them. They have es- capped paying four or five dollars a day for. the privilege of using these little rooms, fec ing inefficient walters, and trying to "have fun' by doing the same things over and over day alter day. They have escaped the dis comforts of life ''in the country" where
 there is little life except insect life They have, it is true, been very warm some days but they have visited 'the shore" in the evening and have made occasional trips to Osprey Beach or Glen Island They have had what they were accustomed to eat and l drink, and have not been obliged to be highly ceremonious in conduct and dress There.
 fore most of them have reached the end of
 the dog days in pretty ''good trim," and l prepared to enjoy themselves when it gets 1 cooler. Many of their fellow citizens who
 have come home tired and disgusted would have been healthier and wealthier if they,
 too, had ayed in New Haven and kept quiet l during the hot weather