Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02
LAZY TIME.
He is an Abnormal Man Who Does
Not Take Vacation
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
1t is often said in commentator of some
one that he hasn't a lazy streak In him.
What an unfortunate and abnormal make
up, One that never could have been pro-
duced under perfectly natural condition.
and must have been the result of the hurry
and competition OF modern life. the struggle
to arrive, regardless of the joy or content
ment which should fall to the lot OF the
humblest. Such a man is clearly out OF
harmony with nature. While she has times
of mantfeSting intense activity and energy,
they are plentifully interspersed with days
when she seems just TO breathe. and when
her great vital processes. never interrupted,
are carried forward imperceptibly and with
TO outward sign of stir or effort. AS one
lies at ease on the sand on such a day, the
blue ocean stretches away in peaceful calm,
and the ripping waveietS caress the shore
with soft murmIrs. as though soothing 1t to
sleep. And asleep IL seems to be. There Is
hush over everything. The white sails of
fishing boats do not flap idly in the
.breeZe, TO: all winds refuse to blow. and all
sounds have ceased in sea and air. Or If
by chance il be rocky coast where you
repose. the gentle tapping of the water on
the stones is perfect lullaby. What can
enc do but yield to such spell. and lie all
day careless and content, basking lazly in
the genial sunshine?
Inland the same spirit prevails. The wide.
under the warm rays of light that flood her
everywhere. No tree fiutters its tiniest
leaf: the birds rest silent in shady hooks.
and the far-off cav of n crow, the soft
tinkle of a mountain stream near by, the
drowSy humming of bees. all hull to rest.
Nature is surely in a lazy, TepoSeful mood.
and we cannot do better than to fall in
with it, and cultivate and seek after some
thing like it in our own lives. Perhaps all
the past year has been one of incessant
toll and strain Day in and out, with little
respite month after month. the weary grind
has gone on, till life seemed a treadmill.
Now that you have stopped. be it for ever
SO short time, don't go marking time,
fancy that unless you keep thinking
about your work something will happen to
it. Just throw yourself down the sand
or the grass. wherever you spend your va
cation, and relax, and let things in general.
and your own little affairs as well. take
care of themselves. Look up at the beau
tifu feecy cloud that floats solitary and
motionless against the summer sky. In its
bosom sleeps the thunderbot. but now 1t is
a picture of Incidence. 1t is in such quiet
ude that 1t gathers force.
We have as a people a recognized disease
known as AmericanitiS. a too highly de-
veloped nervous susceptibility, which keeps
us always on the qui vive, and disconnected.
and bored, unless doing something. Under
it's strain We grow lank and haggard. and
wear out and die before our time. The
remedy lies In taking a different mental at
titude. 1t is all right to work while you
work and play while you play, but cOmmin-
gled with work and play there should be
lazy times. when one simply basks IN the
sun and vegitateS, and when mental and
physical activity are brought to a stand
still