Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-30
SUMMER JOURNEYS
How to Plan a Vacation to
Land of Health.
SUIT BODY AND BRAIN
ENTIRE CHANGE BRINGS OUT
REAL RECREATION.
Country Girl Best Off in Town and
City Maid the
Reverse.
SUIT BODY AND BRAIN

Written for The Star by Sally Chamberlin.
| May day and vacation plans roll round
| together as surely as you turn fresh leaf
| in your calendar. Rightly planned and
spent, vacation is the literal summer jour
| ney into the land of health. The woman,
| young or old, who is laying plans for a
| jaunt of either ten days or ten weeks,
| should start by changing the spelling of
| the word to recreation" The summer
| rest should mean a recreation of the ply
| steal, mental and nervous forces Before
| she looks up railway routes and hotel lists
| she should study herself
| The summer vacation presumably repre-
| sents a good time, but no one will be
| happy unless she is feeling well. There
| fore it is important to select a summer re-
| sort whose climate and amusements are
| emnently suited to the physical and men
| tai condition.
| The very nervous woman should avoid
| high attitudes, such as found in the Rocky
mountains SO should the girl who has
heart disease. Seaside resorts are best for
these women, or a quiet farm. On the
other hand, the lethargic or phlegmatic
| girl, who is always istless and perhaps
morbid, should never go to the seaside.
Even the daily plunge in the surf would
not counterfeit the soothing influence of the
| sea-level climate. This girl needs the in
| forces of the higher altitude to rouse her
| from the physical and mental lethargy
| into which she has fallen.
Neither is seaside life apt to agree with
the rheumatic or neuralgia girl, the girl
who has asthma or hay fever, or the girl
who has had a slight, hacking cough all
winter which she has laid to a succession
| of colds. The girl who never feels well
at the shore should not contemplate an
ocean voyage. Life at sea is simply life at
the shore intensified. An experienced ship
doctor also warns all women who have heart
trouble against sea voyages. He holds that
deaths charged to the dread seasickness are
due not to NAL de mer, bat TO latent heart
disease, made acute by the vomiting.
Takes a Good Loaf.
The vacation which really re-creates body,
mind and nerves is the one which furnishes
the exactly opposite conditions to those in
which woman lives during the rest of the
year. a brilliant New York lawyer, who is
famous for his mastery over detail and his
ability to drive others as well as himself
at high rate of mental speed, who works
eighteen hours day, not because he must,
but because he likes it, disappears from
view four weeks every summer. His va
cation is spent at a farmhouse where there
are no other boarders, and near which is
stream stocked with most commonplace
and ungamey fish. On the bank of this
stream he idles day in and day out, Gfs
only companions small boys who can catch
more fish with their homemade poles and
country bait than he with the best equip
ment New York sporting house can sell
him. And heaven help the lawyer against
whom he is pitted on the first case after
he comes home, for he returns to town a
new man, a mental and nervous Goliath
The girl who has worked all winter in
schoolroom or office, grinding indoors as
teacher or stenographer, with little time
1or social recreation, should plan her vaca
tionbn most frivolous lines. Pcnics boat
ing, bathing, mountain climbing athletic
sports of all sorts by day and dances by
night should fill out the vacation life of
this girl. She should mingle, as far as pos
sible, with persons who do not share her
scholastic or business interests. She should
never talk shop" during this period of rest
and recreation
The mother of growing family will find
herself wonderfully refreshed if she will
turn the children over to competent wo-
man and slip away for a fortnight of soli-
tude, or, at least, to the companionship of
grown-ups whose horizon is not bounded
by juvenile ailments and the servant girl
problem.