The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-05
THE VALUE OF PORCHEs
Loanng on Piazza VIII Do Wonders fc
the Overworked.

-So''S vi TidZZa Will Do Wonders for
the OverWorked.
Mer and Women,
mere an old doctor in New York who
IS famous for repairing people with a.
rather odd prescription. Overworked men
and nerve-wrecked women, all out of
sorts with life, come to him in an ever
iengthening line and beg to be set Alright.
ne looks them very closely in the eye
LOT perhaps minute, and then says, leis-
urely, with great, genial heartiness that
IN ltsen Is almost a cure on the spot:
:t'Well-well-I wouldn't lie awake nights
worrying very much about it. if T were
you. You're all right, every bit, only
you've gone a tritle stale as the bows
say IN college athletics. What you need
n t,,1;e; man awning else is to do little
1udlclous loaf1ng. Something in the way of
a sun path daily. In fact, the very best
thlng can recommend for you is a piaz-
"a IN the Berkshires. Just sit there for q
month or two and watch the world GO
ny: Read little, dream a little and
llsten TO the birds, but don't you dare do
a single, useful thing. And the longer
you sit there the s;urer. the cure"
A piazza in the Berkshires, The old
doctor knew what he was talking about
Only, OF course, it doesn't literally have
10 pc In the 'Berkshires A piazza any-
Where Will do, even yours or mine, and
the Digger and SUMMER and more enticine
1t IS the better. And If, by any unpar-
oonaole oversight of fate, or the archi-
tect s. you haven't a piazza, build one al
once, peg OF you. Build a new one, en-.
large the old one, make fine one finer
But piazza OF some sort you must have
for that way joy lies :
It's rather q pity we don't make more
of our piazzas. They beat us badly al
this sort OF thing over in southern Europe
| along the shores Of the blue Mediterra
q M Tf,1fo g..
| lsh peasant there knows enough to have
MS little vine arbor, and to bask In i
when the sun is high in the summe,
skies. AS for the villas Of the better
endowed, they would as soon be withou
such thing as they would be lackint
fruit to eat or wine to drink. All tn,
way from Barcelona to Capri. and esne
cially along the Riviera. every one IA
pergolas or balconies overlooking the sea
on which they sit at all possible hours
and watch the waves roll In, and the flow
/ ers bloom, and listen to the music Of tn
/ strolling players. They are wise enough
to know how necessary, both to mind an,
body, daily repose is; wise enough t
] know that life should not be turned int
4 merely a business affair
If we would only, here In strenuou
! America, do little of the same sort
i We're such awful 3grubs. with our nose
i forever in the dirt after the dollars An
i the longer We bury ourselves in the com
mercial tombs Of the shaving cities tn
worse we get. Nerves come and digestio
goes, until presently we find ourselve
disgruntled old parties, with our skies al
ways overcast and our bones always ach
ing. And then, when it is too late, W
4 sigh for sight of the green things on
4 in Gods country. Which would neve
i have happened, you know, II we'd onl
done a little judicious loafng on som
piazza, as the years were slipping away.