The San Francisco call., 1905-08-17
LET THOUGHT
BRING ENERGY
By hN0ELH MORGAN

A ND now a word to the man or
n woman who cannot take vaca-
ton or who must needs be salts
fed with Just a snatch of recrea-
ton one day in the week
No doubt you deplore conditions that
tie you down to drudgery when you
long to be off in the woods or by the sea
resting your brain and body and filing
yourself up with new life and energy.
No doubt you rail at the fate that keeps
you in a stuffy Office or shop. or behind
counter, or in close quarters at home.
while others are reyeling every day In
the delights and diversions of the eoun-
try, the seaside or the mountains.
While you are plodding away at your
work the most alluring pictures rise be-
fore you of the things you would prefer
to be doing; you can see yourself having
glorious time boating or fishing, solfing.
yachting, or perhaps camping, up In the
mountains where simply living and
breathing would be a joy.
Fate has treated you unkindly, you
say to yourself, perhaps hundred times
day. If you could only have a chance to
get thoroughly rested and reeuperated you
could attack your work and be glad 1t
was yours to do. 1t is a shame you have
to be cheated OF your rights. So you
complain, until the thought takes COM
plete hold of you and no day goes by
without your grumbling and railing at
fate.
How can a person be expected to get
up any vim or energy for his work when
he hasn't had enough rest-when he has
no chance of obtaining change of scene or
experience? How can fellow have any
thing more than a crouch when there
isn't anything to do but walk In the
same old parks, take the same old car
rides, see the same old people and try the
same old excursions that offer no real
recreation or pleasure?"
So you reason, and you go on grum-
bling until the realization OF what you
are missing becomes well nigh unendura-
BILE. Every day your work seems more
distasteful; every day you are more cer-
tain that you will perish. IL you can't
have a good long vacation, as you de-
sire.
Well, no doubt it would do you good.
But 1t does not by any means represent
the only avenue through which rest and
recuperation may reach you. Renewed
health and strength and interest may be
yours in spite of the fact that you are
deprived of diversion and change of
scene.
All the invigorating influences are not
confined to woods and streams, noun
tains, oceans and forests. Just because
you are in the city at your desk, or IN
your shop, or home. is no reason you
may not be conscious of revitalizing
forces
Indeed, you may become conscious at
any time-right now, if you wish-of the
elements that work for your renewing.
Recuperation is not matter Of going
out Of your way to visit new places and
see new people. 1t is question Of ap
propriating the good that lies about you;
making yourself receptive to the magic
and vitality that exist for you in the
very atmosphere surrounding you.
1t is fact that these reyitalizing in
fiuences do surround you. What you are
pleased to term empty space is not empty
space at all. 1t is very ocean of life
and vigor and power.
Do you know what science says to-day
about the ether? That it is satura ted
with energy, and that when man learns
the secret about appropriating it he may
draw from the ether as much energy as