The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-09-03
RECREATION.
THE MOST SENSIBLE METHOD or
RE-CREATING OURSELVES.
or to n Rustic Reconsideration Is Not
Sufficient-Yeariy Spurts of Recu-
peration--The Poorer Glasses
Trees and Flowers.
ISL. Louis Globe-Democrat.I

Pronounce it according to its derivation,
re-cyeation. This is really what we aim tn
accomplish. Business wears MS out, and
year, if possible, rush off TO create
Ourselves over again. Tho highest problem
before us is how to do this creative work
most thoroughly and availably. A. mat
tiers are, one half of the people rush home
again. after the heated term, more than
ever tagged and devitaliza5 Doubtless
when cheap fares are more general, and
more good sense is shown ia business meth
DDS ana homo affair, good half of oar
reatng VIII go on ia winter Tho south Is
opening to tn, north 81 many escape from
the sharp handling Of winter that MI elias
will soon avail them -eive Of H.
Undoubtedly tho mot sensihi, I.etiiod Of
recTeating Is t. Ova 4 rustic home not too
far from business, to which wc can Tetraat.
One OF our famous actors has small hut,
snug and tight. in Iii yard ,.parats from
his .ouss. Here, Ia shut Hj5a-atf ~. a good
dea Of tiie time, not FOR work bat t. get
out of human contact "Mi-anthropict'
Not hit of IT, lie is fan oG i,umor, anI
geniality when with others; but ha gets
worn out, used up, ahd then hides
relaxation and recreation are two very
different thing. Many people suppose be
use they relax once IN tvgeuty-four hours
they are doing all nature requires of them.
They say they can leave husino at the
store Xe', and then enter into vacUity, n
sta - of nonenity for the rest Of tho siay.
Such men grow pinchei, aud pinch others;
they have ring t. them that is like IN emp
ty iarrsI tn y look around with Il sort of
int .osition they have not life enough to
utter but IT it dill gat expression would be:
"What is life hut husnessl Recreation
must con join with relaxation Such mon if
they lose their property commit suicide,
have softening of tho brain. Wife and chill
and he nj f1lI nfS md
trees counts fo4 nothing with them. They
are lonely with natur'. The trees have no
personality for them, ami there is no com
partnership but in pijos of cotton goods
bales of coats and pautaluoAS, paints and
yarDishes. Did you ever stuiy tho run OF
business men in ami out of their stores, In
side they tit to their work; the moment they
step outside theyseem ont of place rs II
painted cavalier that should step out of his
panel
We may be sure of this, however, that
the present drift Of American life to yearly
spurt' of recup3rJtion is all wrong, AMI
must be given up for "a moro sensible plan
Whore the drain AMI exhaustion is daily the
balance must bo daily secured. Not one out
of ten of our public men or business men
but makes daily draft on his strength u
little beyond his physical income. This he
comIen sates with stimuiantS or endurcs the
tax until the annual vacation once moro
enables him to replace in part what he has
emb zzle ! from his constitution and moral
emory But this is n dishonest makeshift.
and we are sure to degenerate under its
influence.
Contact with nature in the fullest sense OF
the word has power in it that is subtle
probable too subtle for superficial people to
understand. Old DIR. Johnson disiked trees
and liked hotter to roll up and down Cheap
side in the crowd. This is obvious with
other persons of tho samo sort; cannbalistc
creatures they ara absorbing, devotring
other people. Doctors forbid us to allow
children or nervous people to sleep with
older on more rugged people. 1t destroys
them. The Same influence III less degree
goes on in the daytime under less close con-
tact. few gross ones grow stout tho
rest Constant human intercourse is
very destructive to most The 70
operative forces arc in nature
Companionship with trees Is always invig-
Grating and vitalizing. The value of flow
ers in tho window Of a poor mans home i
medicinal and physical. 1t is not merely
>mental pleasure that the paling woman
gather from tho rosebuSh. but med icament.
The same is true of flowers Distributed in
hospitals. High life can only be lived when
the whole being is sternly protected against
corrosive Influences. Moral life is not sonie-
thing separate from the rost of our life, but
part of the physical
The happiest feature of the recreative
tendency is that it has taken hold of the
poorer classcS There Is no poverty left in
the civilzsi world rs bad rs that of the
middle ages The railroad will not allow it.
Famines can not get such grip on any see
ton of tho world. We can get Il way from
choleras and pe-tilences. History will
never again show such records Of wholesale
deaths a. the black sCourge brought on Flu
rope. This Is not only owing t. sanitation
and moro knowledge; il is owing to speeiy
transit
Workmen in realty rusticate nowadays
more thar the capitalists They eat moro,
eat better food, hctter cooked sleep more.
AMI wear out more slowly. Gesiies, they
get cool deal more out 81 weeks iay-otT.
The rich man is mower able II got free from
tho responsibility of appearances