The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1893-07-08
INCREASING WITH GREAT v1RULENcE.

lime was when the three QueSt1OnS |
have quoted would have been preceded
by Are you going to take vacation?''
but that time has passed. All the world
takes a vacation nowadays, or at least
the exceptions are SO rare that they may
be spoken of as proving the rule
Judging from present indications, the
growth of the habit this year will be
quite up to the annual average. The
newspapers are filed with attractive ad
vertisements setting forth the merits of
resorts by the seashore, by the side of
the still waters of lakes, in the noun.
tains and in the forests. Town and coun
try are being flooded with hand bills and
folders and handsomely printed, artistic
ally illustrated little volumes descrip-
tive of the delights of this railroad or
that steamer route us q means of getting
to the place where you propose to make
your summer sojourn. For weeks hotel2
and cottages and boarding houses have
been in process of preparation for vaca-
TONERS and are now beginning to fill
with summer folk. Rowboats on in
terror lakelets have been put i'll order,
stagecoaches that are idle all the rest of
the year have been furnished, the gentle
theological student has found place to
wait in short, the vacation season is
here; here, with all it's genuine pleasure,
it's healthful rest, its sound sleep, its
rowing and sailing, its tramping and
riding, its fishing and shooting; here,
likewise, with all it's rush and worry
and sham and heartburnings, for there
are vacations and vocations. There are
,,,. ~
bly,, who get some real benefit from
them, and who return to their daily oc-
cupations refreshed and better able to
grapple with the problems Of existence,
and there are other persons who do not
understand the real object of vacations
persons to whom the vacation is the
hardest time Of the year, who return
tired and dragged out and cross To
these persons it were better if vacations
should not come.
The first requisite of successful va
cation is that it shall afford change. 1t
is for this reason that the city family de-
lights to go into the green country; that
the busy man of affairs is fain to seclude
himself where he may wear old clothes
and fish to his hearts content; that the
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spot where he cannot even see news
paper. It is on the same principle, too,
that the dweller of a small interior town
delights to shut ZIP his house and betake
himself to New York or Chicago OF some
other big city; that the dWeller in the
mountains gravitates to the seashore,
and that he who lives within sound of
the surf the year round gets as far from
the beach as he can. This element of
change is much more important than the
element of rest. 1t not infrequently
happens that the vacationer is on the &c
during the entire time of his absence
l from his regular haunts, but returns
greatly improved.
r It is likely that the greatest sufferers
from the vacation habit are the society
women who have marriageable daugh-
: ters and determine to use the outing sea-
son for the purpose OF hunting up hus-
l. bands for the girls. To these worthy
women this season must be a terror in
deed. And if the eligible young men
for whose delectation these society moth
ers deck out their daughters in goryeou
attire, and for whom all sorts Of allurin
entertainments are prepared, do not Ell
joy life to the full during the summe
months-why, then, these young me
haven't a great deal of good sense, that
all.
The fact that Chicago is holding bi
World fair this year has tendency
disturb the normal flow Of vacation ira,
ell The regular weeks at the shore an
b in the mountains will be omitted in som
\ cases, and of course this carries with
diminution Of the amount of none
that will be expended in the regular wa.
II It seems likely, however, that this din
= mutton will be greater in the directio
g of the summer schools than the resor
that have no educational features or tf
quiet country places. 1A-tact, sewers
summer schools have decidV to suspen
their sessions this year because of tt
Worlds fair. their conductors realizi1
that the educational significance of tt
exposition is SO great as to be likely
draw largely from their constituencie
= But while it is undoubtedly a good thi1
to go to the Worlds fair it is not like
that trip thither will afford any OF