The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-13
VIOLENT HOLIDAYS.

Tho English physician from whose
 articles published in the Pall Mall
 Gazette we have already quoted has
 written somewhat vehemently against holidays. There are men who think they can dfspence with conventional holidays. We all know the type: T
 have worked, sir, fer ten years without holiday; do look the worse for it?' He is unconscious of the fact that his arteries are slowly, but surely, harden ing, and "a man is as old as his, arter- ies." Nor is the holiday that consists in an attempted rest for fortnight , or Q month while business letters are received and answered a true holiday. The physician passing over these ir-
 stances inveighs against a holiday spent in violent physical exercise climbing mountains, long excursions on foot, incessant golf and tennis. There are some who think that ''the ideal holiday must include such an amount of exercise as shall conveniently com pensate, in fortnight or a month, for the deficiencies of the rest of the year" Or there is the equally pernicious holi- day of hurried sightseeing, with the eye-straining, muscle-tiring tramping through miles of picture galleries, climbing up cathedral spires, etc. And what is the result? Dilated heart. After the return, the wind is short, the ankles are puffy; distressed breathing interferes with sleep No vital energy can be superfiuouly expended with
 safety. Modest demands on heart muscle for eleven months in the year will be met only with the efficiency needed. Put sudden and important de- iilands on it during the remaining
 month and you court danger. The statement that the best holiday is a change of occupation is not unwarrant- ed. The whole man does not want rest; it is only a certain part of him that asks to be relieved, so that certain Ilong-worked centres can rest, lie fal- | low, and other centres, long neglected, can in turn be active. Again, the holi- day of schoolboy, undergraduate, teacher is too long. Little and often" | is the scunder principle.
 There is nothing new in these state
 ments which some may call plati- tudinous; but much trouble comes into | this world from neglect of platitudin- ous advice This English physician is not surely determined about the philo sophy of hofidaying He quotes the old f saying that by day each has his work; but in the evening, messieurs, we live.' Is the current doctrine that life :! is for work rational one? He quotes on the other hand from the diary of Herbert Spencer, lone of the most
 strenuous workers and sternest moral- ists who ever lived," the opinion that
 work is for life. Unfortunately, how
 ever, they may theorize or philosphize about it, there are some who are
 obliged to work both by day and by
 night, not from pure love of work, not
 from any compelling sense of duty,
 but because if they do not work they will be unable to pay bills which to
 sepetacular promoters and plungers
 would seem paltry. When such work CTS indulge themselves in a vacation of
 Ia fortnight or a month they make a
 sad discovery; they have lost the pri-
 village of innocent enjoyment; they do
 not know how to loaf and invite the
 soul; they count dolefully the mo-
 ments that must pass before they will
 be at work again; not infrequently they
 anticipate the return.-Boston Herald.