Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-07-11

| In whatever business or profession a
person is engaged, If he follows il with
she mental or physical effort necessary to
sin success, there il no, only pleasure but
| a Necessity in the annual vacation which all
are now looking forward to with so mnch
| interest. The farmer who has given close
attention TO his farm and iabored early
ard late during the planting, hoe
ing and having season is entitled
10 and should arrange TO have a
| rest and change after these busy days are
this, it Is not necessary 70 travel long dis
tances or spend mueh money for rest, and
| all the essentials for rceuperation are to be
| found within easy distance of nearly every
| farmers home. This fact is often over,
| looked and we piod along from year to year
| sometimes harboring feelings of envy
| tow ard. those Who come to our neighborhooi
| for Summer sojourn. A vacation must be
| q change, and means for the city
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| from tina. needed by the farmer. The
| former needs mental rest, ply steal exercise
| and relief from social festivities while the
latter needs just the opposite The mar
| from the city finds in life upon the farm all
| the requisites for health giving vacation
and the farmer if he will take time to look
| for them, will find ample opportunities fol
res, and mestai and social exercise in the
| immediate vicinity. He should become in
teres,ed in arranging field meetings or pie
| MICS ith his grange church or neighbors and
make them all Jay gatherings. There is nc
other means more conducive to recu-
peration of body and mind than such
| gatherings, and the more informal the
| better. He will have an opportunity to
| attend similar gatherings in the neigh
| boring towns and the Pomona field
meeting for his county. A small outlay
will enable him TO take his family and
Yisit the beach at the time of the agri-
| cultural field meeting at Bears Head
| He will find pleasure and rest in visiting
| the progressive farmers of his aequaint-
snce, and at the same time perhaps gain
| information that will be valuable to him.
Let him take his family and weli-fiiled
| lunch basket aud spend the day in one OF
or lake within easy distance of his home
day thus spen, will long continue in pleas
ant memory. Because the opportunities
We have mentioned do not take US away
| from home entirely and occupy only day
at a time. We fail 10 look upon them in the
| light of vacation. 1t is, however, the
true way of taking vacation, If ones bust
ness is such as To allow it. An occasional
day of recreation IS better than having all
| the vacation of the year crowded into
one period. We cannot afford to neglect
| these little opportunities for pleasure
and rest, and we cannot afford to farm
in such a sbiftlsss and negiectful man
ner that we are not entitled to enjoy
them. Before enyying our city cousins
who know only one vacation time in the
year, let US appreciate the privilege OF
taking vacation day when we please,
and before spending much money for
| long trips. let US look around MS and gen.
orally We will find all the opportunities
for recuperation, mentally, socially, and
physically, near our own home.