New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-11
SUGGESTION TOUCHING TlCATIoNS.

One cannot begin too early III the year 10
nonder the question OF the annual vacation
Get out your maps and your guide books ana
vour timetables to-day in case you have not
already done so. No matter if you do not en-
pect to leave town until the third week III
August and cannot afford to be absent longer
than a fortnight The man who is wise be-
Gins to turn his thoughts toward has summer
holiday early in January. For experience has
taught him that so far as vacations arc con
ccrncd the pleasures of anticipation have a
habit of totally eclipsing the pleasures OF
realization Hope always flies over the vaca-
ton woods or the vacation waters with the
JOYOUS wings Of the butterfly, but hobbllng
memory not infrequently comes down upon
those woods and waters with dull thud. The
summer hotel in the bush is frequently worth
TWO at which you have been a guest. There
arc no flies (see CIRCULAR on the enchantment
which distance lends to the romantic haunts
where YOU decide to rest and recreatc during
the dog-days, but the distance once accom-
plishcd, 10 the swarms of mosquitoes which
tend TO render the purple cleaning and the
night watches vocal with profanity.
Oh. yes it is the part of common sense upon
which PLAYS the fierce white light OF experience,
TO take a vacation by a good long forelock
SuppoSe one starts promptly on the loth OF
January al noon to ponder upon the vacation
problem. and continues faithfully to ponder
upon II until the 10Th OF August. when he takes
the noon train for mountain or seaShorc or
country. This gives him seven solid months
Of the pleasures Of hope. Now If he is an
optimi,, as all men ought 70 be, and makes
good use of his opportunities. those seven
months ought 10 bc most enjoyablc-full OF the
faircst prospects. the incest people, tho most
delightful episodes. perfect bed, table
bcapcd with all the dccac;cS Of the season,
DAYS just warm enough, but not too warm only
rain enough to lay the dust, nights crowned
with moonlight and starlight and with brand
new stories that never were beat. W hat VIII
il matter, then, if this radiant vacation OF
hone. scvcn months long. is followed ~ cor
crete vacation Of two or three weeks which
+, but a WEAKNESS 70 body and soul? Why
kick? You have had a perfectly splendid
time during your long anticiMtory outing, and
+, i, the part of ngrattudc To rebel simply be-
cause the insignificant vacation OF reality has
no, fulfilled it, promise. One must nor expect
to have everything 70 his liking. Cultivate
your Imagination and your fancy. TO the end
that your anticipations may abound with all
sort Of good things.
The importance Of this piece of advice touch
ing vacations appears all tho more valuable
when we consider that il often happens that
man finds rs the summer advances that no VIII
not be- able TO leave town at all. business Is
too pressing or money is too scarce or he
breaks his leg. Then what? Why then, of
course. unless he has taken tho prccaution 10
give himself an anticpatory vacation he gets
none at all that year and SO suffers a dead loss.
It is always wise TO begin TO attend TO this
interesting matter on the 18th Of January.