The record-union., 1899-07-12

those from ocean side.. In either; case
I it is an open question whether phys
ical rest IS secured. In fact most Of
us come home very much wearied. But
then, 1t is WEAKNESS not of toll and
routine. We have turned the physical
machinery the other way and this
counter motion has actually rested us.
But vacation time should not be
draught upon the vital energies. When
ever it is, more than half the benefi-
cence of change is dissipated. Our
vacation should be filled up with
scenes and activities out of the COM
mon of daily life, but not with exer-
tions up to the common. Absolute
inaction no one advises, but the exer-
tion to which many subject themselves.
the privations some voluntarily assume,
the expenditure of nerve force some in
! dulge in-all these are without com-
pensation.
/ Really the letting down of mental
tension is half the battle of gain in va
cation time With pure air, whole
some food, congenial cline and COM
pany, sufficient exercise and absolute
release from thought of daily routine
| of duty, we have the best of vacation
conditions, And these we. can create.
| We do not need to go far to secure
them nor to expend extrayagantly from
the purse, and by no manner Of means
need we indulge in vacation nerve
waste. What most of us need is to
avoid the crowd. Solitude, absolute
and unbroken, is just as bad however
as the bustling. multitude. The happy
| mean lies between these extremes. We
| need to meet numbers of people new
| to our usual conditions. 1t freshens
| and broadens to brush up against those
| of other parts, moving in a different
atmosphere and taking perhaps differ
ent views of life and duty to those we
are accustomed to meet at home.
| This contact tends to correct our err
rors and approve our better judgments.
! So that the mental benefit is quite, if
not more the gain of vacation, than
the physical change. But the two can
| be, and by the wise are combined. We
can, notably in our own favored State,
change the social atmosphere as agree
ably as the physical. We can at one
and the same time have companionship
worthy of us and temporary environ
ment that visits the body with bless
| ings.
| Above all we should please ourselves
| in vacation. There are really no others
| than those Of ones own family to be
consulted. Go where we will, rest as
we may, take change in any form pos
sible, and if 1t is not of our own choos-
| ing, suited to our own need and in
harmony with our own tastes, our re-
| turn will be sorrowful and full of re-
grets that we ever departed, even for
| so brief a time, from the beaten path.
| The anti-expansionists are continual
| ly running away with the idea that the
work of crushing the rebellion in the
Philippines is unholy, because we are
resisting the right of a people to gov
ern themselves. It makes no sort of
| difference to the sentimentalists that
| this is not true. For their. purposes a
falsehood adhered to is as good as the
| truth. Mr.. Rocket, after eight months
careful observation in the islands, says
| that as matter of fact it is untruth to
say that we are fighting the people of
Luzon. We are contending with but
a fraction Of them, and of that frac-
tion only a small class are really ef-
fective The Tagalos are in insurrec-
tion, but the body of the people are
not. These Tagals have been in in
surrection for many years; when not
in arms against the Spanish, they were
up in arms against other tribes. They
are now guerrilla force kunning from
place to place, and, says Mr.. Rocket,
are simply "sneaking murderers."
When they are whipped. as they will
be, the islands will be at peace. To
have supplies These are dependent
upon the rice crop, the chief staple.
The men must be rounded up to attend
to the planting. This the leaders well
know, for without this planting the
forces will have nothing upon which to
| subsist. When it comes to harvesting,
the American forces will have a word
or two to say.
|
| NONE TOO MANY STREET LIGHTS.
The Mayor, in a commendable spirit
| of earnest economy, objects to the ad-
! dition of fifteen more, street lights to
those now in service. These lights are
| for tho nrofootiap of tho o,,+lvipu die