Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-20
THE CHANGE WE NEED
A Good, Wholesome Philosophy Die
tates the Summer Outing.
RESTING AT HOME ISN'T A SUCCESS,
Busy Men and Women Can't Enjoy 1dleness,
So They'd Better Play.
THE SEA MAKES EVERYBODY YOUNG
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. ]

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and it is extraordinary what things are done
there for pleasure, that they could not be
induced to do at home. There seems to be
something in the exhilarating air that leads
to freedom and ease, blissful disregard for
the formalities of life prevails there, that Is
to be found nowhere else. The beach is
converted into a casino and people sit and
lounge about. laughing, talking ami grow
ing tat, with never a thought for what folks
at home would say to such freedom. To
this change from the conventional tread
mill life at home, may not as much be due
in way of benefits derived, as to any medl-
cinal properties contained in saltwater
breezes and baths?
Much is being written just now, for argu-
ment's sake, about people leaving homes
provided with every modern convenience
bathrooms, large, lofty apartments, shady
lawns, somnambulent hooks and corners
indoors and out etc., leaving said homes
| with doors and windows barricaded until, if
sign were put up lettered Home for
Incurables, the appearance, of sucn house
would verify the words Let US be glad
the 'incurables" made their escape and
believe they will be better when they return.
We make no denial that more luxurious
| resorts, and that people suffer inconvenience
at such places they would not brook else
where; and that they wear seven-leagued
boots running after pleasure, exerting more
at pleasure-winning than they would at
bread-winning, or bread-baking, attending
to the affairs of a business or supervising a
household, during this same warm season at
home. Then why, in the name of all that
is rational, do they leave home? is asked.
EVERYTHING IN A CHANGE.
Such question is fully answered in the one
word, change. and the wonder is such in
quiry is ever made. Every living creature
requires change. and in it there is to be
found better tonic than has ever been bot
tied. Realizing this need. people who have
homes at the seaside spend part of the year
in country or city; those living habitually
in country go to city or seaside; while others
obliged to spend the most of the year in city
seek this change at seaside or mountain re-
sort.
And this does not mean. as has been as
serted, that we, as a race, "are restless,
rollicking set of mortals, never content unless
on the move and going at iull pressure"
Neither does it signify that we go because
our neighbors go, nor to obey the irrational
diction of tyranical Mrs. Grundy;" but we
go because we feel the need OF complete
change; change of scenery, of air, OF asso-
ciates, Of yictuals, of activity,a right-about-
wheel and go-the-other-way life dur
ing these hottest days when busi-
have time to get acquainted with their
families; not when delightful fall shall
have come, with its health-giving, bracing
breezes, its changing leaves, etc., for then
business in every branch will have taken a
new lease on life, and lilly prepared for the
rush are those who have been denied the
boon OF renewing their vitality at seaside or
other resorts.
THE sTAY-AT-HoME-PoLICY
Suppose, Mr.. Man-or the-house, you de-
eide to spend your vacation in the "som-
nambulent hooks and corners" of your own
ample house and shady grounds, eating,
smoking, sleeping, reading and enjoying |
the companionship of your own family ex- |
clusively, not going once to the office to !
'see man." you are just going to rest,
rest, rest and allow nothing from the |
outside world to worry you. Do you really |
believe you would, say at the end of two |
weeks, be rested, terminated, ready to cross
swords with your terra Gotta complexioned
contemporaries, when they returned from the
shore bringing you the only sea breeze you
have had? We argue you would not; and
this does not imply that you liked your
family less nor yourself more, but only that
you needed a complete change of environ
ment.
And the "mistress of the house"-she
who suggests this departure from the Gus
tomary because she had vowed last season
she would mot 60 there again to see those
hateful Jonses over the way swell around,
when she knew they had not half enough to
eat at home;" 'besides (hear her tell
it to- a neighbor), our home
is really too pretty to leave, and
we conclude that it amounts to
a sin for us to leave it, and ''then I
had all the fuss and feathers of getting
ready-and for only two weeks all the time
john could spare from the Office, and so we
conclude to remain quietly at home and
rest; and am not going to do single thing
I ever did before except read and embroider;
shan't go into that kitchen if the cook burns
every dinner to crisp, and I've warned the
children not to be running to me with
toes and bumped heads, and that
il they tear their clothes they can wear
them, for this is vacation aud I am off
duty"
THE DARKER SIDE OF IT.
Mothers, do you think such a line of
action possible even if it could be found en-
joyable? You know it is not and you
know, too, about what would be
nearQ from the smoker unQer the trees |
when the odor of a burnt dinner greeted
his ollactor. Poor soul! he is not in Just
the frame of mind that would render bad
dinner pardonable, having had papers and
pipe sent flying into space more than once
by the sudden attacks of too ardent young
ster; been ridden nearly to death by the
lot, Obliged to cut stick horses and pick
knots out OF strings for brides and other in
terruptions innumerable until he is nearly
out of his mind, and considers himself
kind-hearted man to ALLOW his children to
live.
And the poor children! Is there no pity
for them? Have they not ridden these same
horses over this same ground all
their little days? Wherein lies the
change tor them? What wonder they ''come
back like gnats and stick like burs" in what
you consider their determination to torment
you and spoil your vacation. II they had
the diversion of digging in sand or gather
ing shells, you would not be 'tormented'
by them, but you would be to them a tor
mentor when you insisted upon them stop {
ping for refreshments or sleep. Would not
such vacation spent at home be as one long
Sunday? Aud would not business and
housework be recreation by comparison?
Would YOU not better spend the two weeks &
from home with every sight and sound of the !
l1% months spent amid the same sur
,oundings shut out?
ONE GETS DOUBLE CHANGE.
These two weeks from home would mean
several in the main, since Tor sometime after /
your return, home would be new place 1
and never seemed so desirable before; and I
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