The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-12-07
The VACATION AND SOCIETY
HUMBUGs.
(continued.)

NDefeS no nutHpug aDoui NdN"tiVh
provided YOU use a little common sense,
but as a rule most people who feel tho
need or rest work harder during the two
or three weeks that arc allowed for their
summer vacation than thoy do when al
home aud following their regular employ
ment. To be sure the change is beneficial.
but for the full benefit that is needed
there must bc some rest allowed for, and
I've found the following formula an ex-
cellcnt one for health and comforts
II doesn't matter whether YOU arc
bookkeeper or a housekeepcr, a merchant,
mechanic or manufacturer on a farmer.
there comes time generally once
year,, when you find yourself worn out,
with your nervous energy iaboring at
tremendously low ebb. Then's the ume TO
stop work and go somewhere. Doesn't
make much difference where it is. so long
az you can git away from your customary
environments--or In other words away
from your best and dearest friends. who
arc foreverlastingly wanting YOU 10 strain
up and go TO some public gathering. take
part In some festival or charity ball. or
go with a crowd on n iunketing tour TO
New York or Chicago. just when you feel
20 exhausted that you would like TO git
outside OF the earth IL only for day, just
20 see how much comfort and peace there
Is In being alone.
Don't go 10 the doctor. Avoid hum as
YOU would a pestilence. Land sakesl he ii
send you TO bed and use UP all the money
you've laid aside for recuperation. 'Tain't
medicine you need, but rest and little
useful at times. I wouldn't be without
my family physician for all the world, for
the sake or family traditions II nothing
more, any more than l would watch
dog But goodness sakes. watchdogs are
not wanted on all occasions, It's when
real tramps and thieves are round that
they are most needed.
IN acute diseases the doctor ought 10 he
encouraged but In chronic diseases and
the ordinary tired feeling brought on by
overwork. I'd az soon take brownbread
Pill OF my own make az anybody elses.
A. hundred people generally have hum
dred different opinions more or less and
SOL haven't consulted any Of them for
tlifs little chapter OF advice. As / said
before. medicine isn't what you want,
and you don't need some one to enlarge
on your symptoms, nor Christian Sci
enlist TO tell you that nothing is the
matter and to 20 right back TO work..
Nobody ever said "Presto" and made
new set OF nerves all at once, don't
care what class Of fanatics he belongs TO.
Pack UP your gripsack or trunk and go
20 the seashore or the mountains. or TO
both. or down TO see your grandparents
or Uncle James down on the farm II you
to do.
IL you 20 To hotel that some friend
mas recommended, you may reel SdISneu
with the place At once. but II IL has not
been Endorsed. In your despairing condi-
tion you may not at first feel just pleased
With all OF your surroundings and ac-
strange. for YOU were not contented at
home. These conditions will all right
themselves az YOU begin TO improve IN
health. and II will help you amazingly IL
YOU will only call TO mind the hotel that
Mr. Artemus Ward stopped at in Arizona.
where they gave him a bag of oats for
q pillow. Artcinus said he wouldn't have
minded IL so much If IL hadn't given him
the nightmare so all night long! In the
morning the landlord said to him: How
DO YOU feet old hoss. hay?" and all that
Mr.. Ward could Say was that ''he felt
his oats
when you git settled down don't try to
show the other guests how smart you are
ut playing whist or cards OF any kind.
I knew a merchant of Boston. where
their diet Is supposed TO he mostly litera-
ture and east winds. swho went 10 the
mountains OF New Hampshire expressly
TO recover his health First thing he did
was TO begin 10 play whist, and keep Il
up until ten or eleven o'clock every
night Every morning h@ would abuse
himself with real strong guage. and
then he'd tell me that he must stop IL.
for 1frmade him feel worse every time
he played But the next night he. would
he playing again. and so he kept II up
until finally got disgusted and told him
believed no would play cards II he
thought he was going 10 he sent down to
perditiou I'm tho morning on account Of
~. And I guess 4 said some more things
that may have TO answer for, but IL
was a wonderful relief for me To say
something 7 don't know as it's any
worse 10 say what you think than to
think what YOU dasu't say, II by speak
Ing M IN does some good.
Thnt mans experience 10 tho expert
ercc of ninety nine cases out OF hun
dred who go tGN6otels for rest.
Tho poor man is dead now. and don I
know hut that card playing helped 10
shorten his days. because the game used
M what little nervous energy he had left
and deprived him % his rest
1f you 60 go n hotel. the best way Is TO
make IL your business 10 know nobody
but the landlord and follow II up for two
vcels n everybody wants 10 think YOU
= recluse 50 much the better. FOR then
they will keep away.
Take your meals regular and don I
try 10 sec how much but how little YOU
can eat Franklin says. 'If YOU would
live long eat less and there Is n world
or truth I'm II.
Don't ever comment on food that Is
placed on the table. nor joke about IT,
for II "a a piece OF bad manners. Tother
had hash for breakfast and he'd felt
like everything all day" Now. while
that amt very bad. nevertheless It's
comment.
I've known some folks 20 sit down TO
table and find fault with the service
aud about everything that was brought
ON. until they found out that the other
folks at the same table thought every
thing was about right. and then they a
ali of a sudden change their minds and
feel satisfied that they had gone into
such q good hotel suppose they did
~ 10 make folks think they'd Travelled.
hui that's dreadful soor evidence iu my
opinion If you've Travelled YOU u know
when YOU are we'll cared Tor without
wstchinr other folks
Select rsrefuiIy the Mind ~ food that
nts your stomseo best and ia the most