Daily Republican., 1882-07-01
Tbe vacation season.

ida to Oregon the people of the United
States who can enjoy and afford the
luxury are about to take summer va
cation. Summer was long in coming
it is true, but having come at last, and
with such an intensity of rigorous heal
az in dicated by the departing days OF
june it gives warrant that it will com
pensate in intensity what 1t lost by its
Hardness. The weather of the last few
days has been full of suggestiveness OF
the delights of cool mountain tops and
ocean breez yes, and already the hegira
for inland shades and ocean serfs has
commenced. 1t is only within the re-
collection of the majority, since the
American people have walked up to the
fact that all work and no play makes
man and boy dull Only the wealth.
lest class as general thing deserted
the city during the heated term but
now there are but few who do not try
to afford themselves the luxury of a
longer or shorter holiday season away
from home. The annual exodus has
become so great that millions OF money
has been spent in the effort to obtain
wholesome recreation and that rest
which refreshes weary minds as we'll
as weary bodies, and cities by the ssa
shore have sprung up as if by magic.
Places that not long ago were almost
inaccessible wilderresses or cast off
barrens now are easily reached by rail
or the most ordinary roads, and upon
the highest mountain tops great palaces
command views for scores of miles.
Sand beaches have become great cities
of costly cottages and grand hotels. 1t
is doubtful if so much money was ever
spent for better purpose. 1t is not
only the holiday that is obtained for
the money spent in going out of the
the city for few days during the
heated term, but it is the rest and
health that are gained which makes |
the expenditure justifable even to those
who think they cannot afford it. To
the children shut up in close school
rooms all the rest of the year and kept
down to hard study, the holiday out of
town, is q necessity If their health and
vitality are to be maintained.
It Is still too much the opinion of
many of our business men that t&ey do
not need rest from the exciting pur-
suit of making money, that they can
mot afford to leave their business, and
that their health will be as secure in
town as in the country. 1t is possible
that they may find their health as good
in October if they deny themselves q
summer rest as if they had taken it,
though 1t is not likely; but if they go
on, bound to the revolving wheel Of
business, year after year, without a
holiday or rest, they will learn when it
is too late to recuperate that they have
shortened their lives by increased ap-
plication and that they might have
prolonged it and keptaway the inroads
of disease and premature old age
until old age did really come. AS q
rule, our persistent business men, who
take no rest or holiday, are old prema-
turely, and if they only know the truth
they would know that the holiday to
the business man is often the best in.
Eestment he can make. None that are
frugal and Industrious need feel that
they cannot afford holiday during the
summer for there are accommodations
for all classes and to suit all incomes.
The man at his desb, the woman work.
ing at housekeeping or at something
else abroad, and the children free from
school will all alike be happier, strong
er and better from a summer holiday in
a purer atmosphere than that of The
city.