Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-09-11
VACATIONS.
The New FORK Tribune Tells How to Make Then,
Blessed.

Everybody needs vacation. ..All
work and no play makes Jack dull
boy" And everybody can have a va
cation, if not for q month, for two
weeks, for one week, for day, for half
a day, for an hour, f6f half an hour
10 get aNny from the usual routine and
forget the regular grind, and get off the
harness for time, is the essence of the
vacation. There are few who cannot
manage IN one way or another to do
this. The mother who is surrounded
by cares that she cannot bear may take
her cares with her day to the woods
or the sea side, or even under the shade
OF the trees in her yard or into the
shadow of her house, if she has no
| trees, and for time forget them. If
she can forget them for even half an
hour, that will be some relief Or. if
she cannot get out of the house, she
may SIT for time in the most unfre-
quented room in the house and thus
give herself II change. 1t is wonderful
what relief SO simple device as this
will afford.
The great object of vacation is to
let down the chords of life that have
been strung to high degree of tension,
and let them rest. Those who live
within the sound of the railroad have
their hours and minutes marked off bv
the locomotive whistle, SO they can tell
at any time almost in the twenty-four
hours how the hands of the clock point.
What they need is, if possible, to get
beyond the sound of that whistle, to
forget clocks and watches and measure
their day by the rising and setting of
the sun and by the shortness of the
shadows at noon. Those who live afar
from the busy crowds of village and
city life will be proflted by mingling
with their kind in masses, by being Jos
tied and held to time, by being dis
turbed by noisy streets in the night
time, and shaken up IN omnibuses and
cars and stirred up in the innumerable
ways that are possible to them in cities.
They will 60 back to their quiet lives
with an appreciation new and very
grateful.
1t is good for those who live in luxury
at home to trough it, during their va
cations, to sleep on hard beds, to sit on
uneasy chairs, to eat homely food, to
ride over rough roads, and let the rude
winds visit their faces freely. When
they get back home again they can
value the comforts they have at their
worth, and find in them fresh and I'M
hackneyed enjoyment. This is probab-
ly one reason why the rooms in hotels
are made SO small, and why they are
piled so high upon each other, and why
so many Of them are Just under the
roof
One-seventh of our time is given us
for vacation for rest, for feast unto
the Lord, for the enjoyment of our best
faculties, for cessation from toll and
care. The merchant, who on. this day
reckons up his gains, misses his Sab
bath, the laborer who on this day still
labors misses his. The greater the diff
ference we make in this day and the
six days of labor the more profit do we
get from both. He who rests on the
Sabbath can work the better for it on
the six days. He who works diligently
on the six days cannot fail TO need and
to enjoy the rest of the Sabbath.
A vacation should contain in it all the
possible elements of change of scene,
of air, of surroundings. Those who live
near the sea shore find delight in going
to the mountains; those who dwell in
land seek the sea shore; the dwellcr in
cities finds the broad peace of rural life
an agreeable change, while the country
man is stimulated and refreshed by the
stirring scenes and crowds of cities; the
denizen Of the South seeks the GOODNESS
of Northern ATTITUDES, and the dweller
III regions of snow and ice flies, if he
can, to tropical shores and regions of
perpetual spring.
Having had vacation, we come back
to work with freshness, with energy
and with content. Success seems more
easily won, we have larger hope, greater
patience, and can take up the burdens
of life and carry them more cheerfully
and with less strain and worry. Blessed
be vacations