New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16
country air and plenty OF good food-anywher
so II is out of the city"
SPREAD OF THE VACATION HABIT.

SPREAD OF THE VACATION HABIT.
IT is amusing to observe how the occupation
and the interests OF each individual seem 10
bias his judgment as to the real cause Oh the
spread OF this wholesome summer country va
cation habit First, there Is the member OF
great firm. whose views are expressed In some
thing like this way: "Will you tell me how, in
the name of common sense. the hard working
shop men and shop girls could take vacations
at all If il were not for us 'bloated monopo
lists? Suppose | had a little store with one
man to drive one wagon and two men penhu
the counter; how could ! send my people away
to the country? You can't put salesman 10
drive delivery wagon, you know; and you
can't car in your driver to sell groceries IN the
dullest of times No. sir. l believe that, if
people take vacations now who never would
have thought Of such things twenty years ago
it is because business is organized on larger
scale than it was"
oh it's all due to the growth OF athletics"
said a man who keeps a small hospital for
punctured tires and battered frames in Brook
lyn. THE truth Of the business is, we're get
ting to hc an open air people. And a good Job
too"
A muscular Christian devoted. heart and soul
TO the Union for Christian Work, said that the
whole summer outing movement was result
Of enlightened missionary effort. You don't
see how? Well, it's the effect OF what these
mission schools have been working at for years
The boys and girls grow up to believe mat
week in the country at least once year is
good for the soul as well as for the body That
has created 4 healthy public opinion on the sub
ject But that public opinion is nothing Ike 50
strong now as it will be. You have been look
ing up the subject in the department stores
have you? Wen, / suppose you found out there
that even the little cash boys have their regular
summer outings. We, or rather some OF the
people ! work with. see to ii that they really
go to the country When those boys grow up
and become brain workers they will insist on
their outdoor vacations as rlgidly as their par
cnts and grandparents insisted on their sleep
at nights. See?'
Rut not the least interesting remark on the
subject was that OF foreman in job printing
Office: I'm tell you one thing that summer
vacation does for us. You may not have noticed
it. unless you have worked year in and year out
with "A hundred men with all kinds of
tempcrs. defy anybody to keep all the men
in the whole lot from quarreng some time or
other What with the heat and the rush. and
one mans work depending much
others. it's only human nature. Well, there are
two times in the year when the men seem to
make up little chickering's among themselves;
Christmas is one time and the other is when
man comes back from his summer outing, From
now on until September you can see some man
or other coming back from his vacation near
ly every evening. You can tell them by the red
and brown in their faces And then all the
others shake hands with them. and II they have
been bad friends before. why, It's all forgotten
somehow. / have noticed that a almost
always comes back from vacation In q good
humor. It's natural"