The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-26
HOW TO SPEND YOUR
s s.s a sae VACATION. Rs:s a::s.

spend q vacation plunge lnLO the water
two or three times a day. instead of
once; stay in too long az a time and
then come home with their skin an
broken out ard in a generally debili-
4 tated condition. These are only SAM
pies of some of the imprudeut acts va
caioners are guilty of.
Others are the -perpetUaUv on the
go craze and the going 10 bed after
midnight habit The going TO bed
with the chickens style of vacation
Is almost out of daEe-m0re's the pity.
'Oh, yes; I can give my idea OF a
really Iestful healthtui vacation fu a
few words: To get beyond the reach
or lele8rams ana to place where a
dress suit IS practically unknown; 10
ANe out OF doors most OF the day. get
ia a boat and fish for hours at a stretch
and TO take nap when please.
i would just as soon 60 to jail as
20 be obliged 10 spend my time at a
crowded resort where IL is dress pa
rade all day long and conventional en-
lefIalnments every night. Plenty Of
sleep IS what the wage earners of this
city ought 10 look out for when they
so on on vacation If they would come
nome benefited. But few of them,
am afraid, do look out for it,
DR.. Darlington, head of the health
department had this to say on the
TT may be true that in the Old days
vacations were less common than they
are now, but what then? Life is very
different now
ut is a great struggle these days for
most people to keep abreast Of their
work 7Ot their duties. I'm Sew York
nearly all workers I'm the various vOCa-
tons are living all the time up to their
income OF strength and endurance. We
u1TTET relay awhile Uaf
arrears.
'The death rate of New York is low
err than it used to be- This has been
brought about undoubtedly by better
plumbing better food, more attention
to sanitary and hygienic conditions,
and also, / think, because hours of Ia
Dor are shorter and most people get at
least a short vacation once a year.
III a vacation means a time spent
in excuses, then undoubtedly il is of
no value. For people who are housed
most Of the year to so on and spend
hours every day rowing or exercising
IN the hot sun then drink cOpi0usly
OF bad well water. eat heartily Of poor
Is cooked and often unWhOlesOne food,
dance all evening and then try 20
snatch a few hours sleep GA a lumpy,
cOrnhusk bed, may not do them any
particular good. 1t may even do them
harm.
CAT the same time almost any sort
of vacation is worth while provided il
means plenty OF fresh air.
What New Y0rk's tired wage earn
ers need is to get away from the soil
OF the town, it's microbes and bacteria,
into good, free, pure country air. This
is especially necessary for persons with
weak Threats or a tendency to pull
mOnary troubles.
''As a preventive of nervous troubles
there is nothing equal to a vacation. In
fact, there would probably be no such
thing as nervous prOstrati0n if its VIC
Tins had taken long vacations before,
instead Of after the trouble developed.
when the skin of the hand is cut il
heals in few days, when a bone IS
broken if VIII knit again ia from four
TO six weeks. But when a nerve IS cut
it takes at least eight months 10 heal.
That illustrates how important IL is to
look after the nerves.
The length of a vacation? Oh, there
Is no rule that can be laid down about
that A two weeks respite from work
does wonders sometimes.
Brain workers, writer's and eduCat-
ors need, I think, longer vacations than
some others. For instance, in their
case they would just begin to learn
how to rest iu two weeks. A month at
the least they ought to take-tWO
months would be better.
'In the great universities both In
this country and abroad, it is getting to
be the custom 20 give the leading
members of the faculty one whole
years vacation out Of every seven
which IS copying, you see, the Old rab-
binicaI law. 1t is a benefit to the uni
Versities to DO this
Men filing such important posts
cannot go on indefinitely giving of
their best. They must have time 10
recuperate TO take in before they can
give out again.
at any rate. the day has gone by
when New Workers can get on without
a vacation. New York sun.