McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-09-25
From Rest to WOrk.
Des MoInes Register.

During the past week thousands of
people have returned from vacation to
business, from rest to work. The vaca-
ton season is over. The mountains,
sea-shore, lakes and springs are once
more without their summer visitors, and
the town and city welcome back the
rovers. The vacation season is coming
to be recognized as a settled institution
in American life. 1t has fourished in
Europe for centuries, but the people of
the New World have hardly had time to
make business of resting and enjoying
vacations. But as the pioneer period
gives place, to more refined stage of
existence, when the amenities of life as
we'll as its necessities can be cultivated,
so the vacation season comes and as
serts its claims for recognition. 1t is a
new experience to many people to make
business of resting. They have been
brought up to believe that nature, by
the wise arrangement of night and day,
had provided all the time that was nee
essary for recruiting the tired energies
of humanity, especially when these
resting spells were supplemented once
week with Sabbath. They point to
the example of worthy ancestors who
had carried the burdens of life with nc
play-spells, either, till three score and
four years had watched them at their
work. If their descendants lived and
worked as did these old worthless, there
would be no reason why the sands Of
their lives might not run out as smooth.
ly and slowly. But American life to.
day is very different from the life of two
or three generations ago. The worry
and hurry and irregularities of modern
life put the friction on the wheels and
the engines break down before hall
their allotted time. 1t probably is g
virtue, but at the same time it is an in
direct reproach that the average Amer
ican wears out and doesn't rust out
The delicate machinery of nerve an6
tissue which keeps the human system
working out its great results, has sell
dom any opportunity for corroding rus
to accumulate. On the contrary, tc
continue the figure, the engine is rur
too often at ''high pressure with full
head of steam, and then suddenly wher
the tension is too great, the delicate
workmanship breaks under the strain
and the life stops. As Americans live
a vacation season is a necessity. PEG
pie are beginning to understand it, anC
now plan their work with reference tc
an annual rest of at least few days, i
not weeks. 1t is time saved. 1t is en-
ergy saved. If is nervous force saved
1t is better quality of subsequent work
saved. The vacation pays the best re
turn in vital force and direct materia
recompense, of any investment maj
can make. But to enjoy its results one
must make vacation a resting spell
for the mind is rested by change of oc
cupation but it must be free from dissi
patton, irregular hours and habits, anC
must give free play to every wasted en-
ergy in its efforts to recruit its strength
Then the wanderer can return to hi:
work again and take up with a zest anc
interest that insure splendid accomplish
ments. What volumes could be writer
on the history of one vacation season
Could some invisible scribe, with unerr
ing pen, look down over mountain
lakeside and seashore, the past few
weeks, what tales he might record
The gentle romance of youthful loVer
| whose fondest dreams of bliss were
more than realized in the fitting day
of an iayllic existence. The wear,
hours of pain that came to many suf
ferer who had sought in vain for health
and strength, where all others fount