New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-30

be obtained at the expense of rest, which after
all constitutes the essence of an inyigorating
vacation.
The common mistake that is made is in
allowing ordinary occupations to absorb SO
much time and energy as to exclude everything
else from ones thoughts. The man incapable
of thinking of anything except his business OF
his profession cannot make the best use OF
vacation, since no has few if any interests out
side of his daily routine. Like lssachar couch
ing between the burdens OF his business LIE ne
sees that rest is good, but he has bowed Ms
shoulder to bear and become servant unto
tribute. The iron of ordinary routine has
entered into his soul. The machine can
scarcely stop running during the vacation
season. The mind is preOccupied with business
projects, or barassed with domestic cares.
There may be peace and quiet for the tired
hody and the overstrained nerves, but there is
no real change of thought along with the
change of scene. He may be satisfied to return
TO his business with a sense OF being thor-
,ughly rested, and in that case his vacation VIII
be accounted a success. But If the season has
passed in dull, methodcal way almost as
fatiguing as his workaday life, he will go back
to work with jaded and hopeless feeling that
he is not fit for anything except hard work Is
there anything that tends to make man more
disconnected and forlorn than the feeling that
he has tried hard to enjoy himself and has made
n signal failure of it 1t seems to imply that
the mind has not sufficient elasticity to react
under favorable physical conditions To
return after a vacation with depressed spirits
and consciousness of intellectual debility
involves a humiiating confession OF lack OF
capacity for recreation.
How different is the result il habits of relax
alton are formed during the working year
Let the tension of daily business be relieved
every day by change of pursuit, an hour OF
reading or study, the cultivation of special
tastes the awakening of new interests, and the
annual vacation will not find even the busiest
man without resources for recreation as exhilar-
ating to his mind as the rest is inygOratng to his
body. The professional man who works i'll his
own garden an hour OF two day, and interests
himself in everything that grows, will be happy
in the quietest farm village during August, for
he will dwell among flowers and birds, in the
wholesome companionship of woods and fields,
an intelligent observer trained to comprehend
the manifold pleasures of rural surroundings.
Put the overworked salesman, who occupies
his leisure through the year in making close
study of trees and native woods in Central
Park, for single fortnight in the Adirondacks,
and how keen will be his pleasure in roaming
through thicket and forest! Let the artistic
senses be trained by frequent visits to picture
galleries or by familiarity with good engrayings
of landscapes, and the summers vacation will
promote development of the finer senses the
eye will easily reflect the clearness of the sky,
and contact with mountains or ocean Will
awaken inspiring thoughts. Rest cannot do
more for the body than recreation can do Tor
the mind, when habits of relaxation are already
formed and the narrowness of professional or
business occupation has disappeared.