St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-21

who sell to minors may excuse them
selves. The last legislature amended
the law by forbidding the sale to
minors under all circumstances, no
matter what their authorize ton A
rigid enforcement of this provision
will work an important reform, and
save many a child from the tempta-
tons which the saloon so literally
gether this pernicious practice, if
the police authorities do their duty
We hope that there may be such
vigilance exercised that no intoxi-
cant will ever again be sold to a
person under legal age in ST. Paul.
ARE VACATIONS NECESSARILY:
This is the season when, in the
economy of our modern civiliZat ton,
a vacation from the labors of the
remainder of the year is deemed es-
sential to the preservation of health
and the prevention of collapse. One
reads the pages of advertisements
of summer resorts, and the letters
from the seaside and the mountains
in the papers, or of the trips of those
fortunate enough to be able to own
and support a yacht. No general
reader of papers or magazines but
has come to regard it as one OF the
brightest plumes in the cap of our
later-day science, as related to
health and sanity, that it has de-
creed the summer vacation for
men or women who work with their
brains. AS eminent an authority as
the gifted Depew only recently an
nOunced it as his deliberate conVic-
ton that every one should take a
trip across the ocean at least once
a year. Memory brings up the coach
ing trip of Mr.. Carnegie through the
''bosky dells" of England, and his
gertrude that every one should take
island as a matter of health pre-
serving.
And so it is become the unwrit-
ten law of the land that the workers
must have a lay-off during the dog
days, or some of the other days of
summer. In spite of this, and of the
obedience yielded, willingly or other
wise, to the ukase, by so many, one
still finds the vast majority of his
fellows plOdding along their daily
path of labor, day in and day out,
year in and year out, and seeming
to stand the strain remarkably we'll;
| showing no signs of nervous or
physical breakdown, nor any notice
| able impairment of their mental
| forces. And so one is moved to Won
| der if vacations are necessary; what
is the benefit of them, and why it is
so generally regarded that one must
| be taken nolens volens. If the rea-
| sons assigned in the letters, the press
and magazine discussions are sound,
| then it follows that the very large
number of our fellows who do not,
because they cannot, take one must
! be in a very bad way. The fact
| that they are not upsets the assigned
| reasons.
! When one reflects on the subject
he is pretty apt to reach the con-
| clusion that the question is largely,
almost wholly, one of temperament
and toll. There are men and women
| of high mettle, bundles of nerves,
with minds abnormally active. They
| are always rushed and rushing. The
impulse to do something is ever on
them. They have no cutoff valves
| to their energy; no governors on
their engines to regulate speed. Then
there is the forty-horse power bust
ness man who is swinging world of
trade by its tail. Having it in mo-
ton he must keep it going. Motion
| gives it growth, and growth de-
mands increased attention. Early
! and late, Sundays and all days, he
is at his post, directing, planning,
i executing. To all these there must
come either a period of rest and
quiet or of breakdown. The nerves
will give way to prostration. The
business man, no matter what his
physique, will some day have a
pain in the back of his head, and his
limbs will grow lax with paralysis.
Here temperament and the limita-
| lions of human endurance both de-
mand rest, as the price of continued
| effort
But there are the men or women,
more or less Emphatic, with nerves
in good order and not tyrannizing
over mind and body, with good di-
gestion waiting always obedient on
appetite, to whom work is a normal
condition. They never rush or per-
nit themselves to be rushed. Meth
odically and patiently they perform
their daily labor, cutting it to their
capacity, holding some force ever in
reserve. Their work is their pleas
ure, controlled by reason in its in
| diligence. These are they who stay