New-York tribune., 1903-08-15
WEEK ENDS" FOR HEALTH.
How One Woman Keeps Herself Wholesome
Mentally and Physically in Summer

The tea had been poured. the English mullins had
been passed, and the six eight young business
women who had together for the afternoon
We're all slipping their If it right,
when one of them said apropos of nothing;
How well you're looking. Marion not a bit
tagged, although after winter and spring such
as you had should think you would be dead
Marion was a tall young woman whose blooming
cheeks seemed incongruOus indeed with the dusty
newspaper Office in which she worked.
II haven't done anything to look we'll" she said
Except treat myself to some week ends
Il thought week end parties things for
swells to do" put in n little girl who is arch
tect during business hours. stirring her tea med-
tatively.
"They aren't parties in the society sense go
on alone or with my mother sister. You see
and here Marion settled herself more comfortably
in her chair-'aIong back in May 1 felt the need
of breaking off short and having a rest but 1t
wasn't to be thought OF. l knew I could not get
my two weeks vacation till August, and l feared
should break down long before that. So the fol-
lowing Saturday packed my suitcase and brought
it downtown with me. and when work was over
caught express to West Point. I expected Alice
to with me, but she came by later train, after
had chosen lovely doube-bedded room at Ut
tie West Point hotel. looking up the river to those
magnificent forelands There stayed till Mon
day forenoon. We had a time. We ddn
do anything but lie round and sit round. but that
was what l wanted 1t regular pick-rne-up
of fresh air.
well, West Point tided me over the next week
in comparative comfort. Those long still
nights with the beautiful unspoiled air had broken
up my habit of sleeplessness and for nearly week
1 slept well But had done well with that hrst
little weekend 1 decided to try it again. so the
next Saturday mother and 1 spent in Greenwich
Conn. and again it seemed as if I had found an
| escape valve for my nerves. Somehow the tension
was broken. 1 like a horse, slept like a log
forgot to look at things from the copy point OF
! view, and got dreamy and composed and natural
The other six seven girls listening hard.
1NIooNro 1o%+
| terested
THAT accounts for two week-ends. l don't sup
pose you would hear of all the places I've
| been to since them"
! "Oh, yes we would" exclaimed her friends in a
"An right then. One week we troeyed through
the Orange Mountains and put up in funny little
country inn in a place that I've forgotten the
name OF. We didn't know where 20 spend SqIlIay LTIy
oo9d9cior @ e Here let US This I is the place
"One week we went to Tomklns Cove on the Hqd- 5,l
son below West Point-such queer rambling lit
| tie place all uphill and down dale. There Is Is u, d
teachers Rest there where they someQ@neS @ md ian 1e
! US very comfortable. We went troleying to Rye
and we troeyed lot in Long Island @ where srI the
ba P9sI m ana B qba Ahs samp I0 I
! You'll have noticed that it all inexpensive
away from people particularly people knew, who
| would expect me to be agreeable and bright-ano
ing week. I went with a definite desire to better
So if YOU think look wen, the, only way can can
account for it is by my 'week-endS,' which nave
| kept up all summer. even though do expect a soho
| fortnight Of rest" .
When the teacups had been replenished and the
hearts and rounds and petts fOurs had been passed
Gertrude. the Kindergarten, said
Il should think you could have rested rather pet
| ter in your home. All that trolleylnS WoulC
have tired At home you could have lain down
all day in a dark room and had just what you
! wanted to eat
But it was change of air and scene she needed
especially" answered a very tall young woman
who earns her living teaching bridge, and she
couldn't get those in her own home or even IN New
| York"
7 didn't want to go into hospital" replied the
| return to life. A single woman gets sort of in
human unhuman if she sticks relentlessly tG
business needed to get back to nature, TO forget