New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
IN TAKING A HOLIDAY.
SARAH GRAN GIVES SOME GOOD AD-
VICE ON HOW TO MAKE THE MOST
OF A VACATION

Holiday making is custom peculiar to our own
times Our ancestors did not make holiday in any
great numbers Only the rich were able to travel
The common people not allowed to think
that change and rest and relaxation neces-
sary for them at all. They had a few fete days
in the year but these given up to riot.
merrment rather than to rest and relaxation
they could have reaped but little of the benefit
from them which ia associated in our minds with
holiday making They required such benefit less
than we do however for life not then lived
at the same high pressure that 1t is lived
days Our ancestors were threatened with stag
nation What we suffer from is hurry and worry
and want of repose And this 1t Is that has neces
STATED the periodical holiday which in all classes
is gradually becoming recognized part Of the rOu-
tine OF life Now happily, railroads make change
practicable for very large proportion OF workers
But changes and holidays arc not necessarily the
same thing. Numbers Of workers who go for
change only add fatigue to another. and re-
turn exhausted rather than refreshed for their
pains The wearted mother of family. for in
stance. already out with household cares and
the ordering Of many lives. who takes her chill
dren to the seaside, into uncomfortable lodgings
probably, and is obliged to be duty Of doors
the greater part of the day, looking after the lit
tie ones-obliged also to do incessant rounds Of
shopping in search of food-what holiday is there
for her In such change?
CHANGE IS NOT ALWAYS REST
It is said that a change Of work is good
rest. 1t may be. But 1t is always well to bring
such assertions down from the general 10 the par
tcular On this principle of a change of work the
girl whose brain is already exhausted goes Off on
her bicycle in the hope of relieving her nerves by
trying her muscles. It does not to her that
the expenditure OF nerve power Is still going on
while she is taking exercise. What she re-
quires Is rest. Children suffering from head
ache and urgently IN need OF repose often
cruelty sent out play when every step is pang
to them What. headache AGAIN." says the
thoughtIess parent or teacher. We'll, go That
will do YOU good. It's only stomach''-as II any
thing could be than stomach, or more sig
nihcant of loss OF power. And the
poor little sufferer patiently drags herself out.
, and hangs about in misery, making a long
chronic business Of what should have been a
temporary trouble The common sense treat
ment of these early symptoms is 20 make the chid
lie down in nice cool quiet room. well covered up
with the windows wide open and the blinds drawn
A few hours Of that sort of holiday would sur
flee to restore her.
Modern medical science takes rest very much into
account as we'll as exercise. 1t used to be Gus
omary to send sufferers from loss of nerve power
on impossible Journeys. Nowadays they are put to
bed Instead of the inevitable exercise which used
to be so freely prescribed. people are now trying
rest, with the happiest results
But holiday makers and invalids must not be put
into the same category. The holiday makers 1 am
thinking OF are those happy mortals who do not
take holiday order recover from illness, but
because they would preserve their health-the ones
who are wise enough TO impose upon themselves, In
the way Of work. that honorable stop not to out
step discretion Many a man and woman would
be saved much misery il only they had tne @
them by illness. This is one OF those useful trusms
cause everybody knows 1t we'll that nobody
ever thinks about 1t.