The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-06-16
GET AWAY FROM SHOP.
What the Professional Man Needs for
 Vacation.

What the Professional Man Needs for
 Vacation.
 The bloom of the Wisteria in Gen. tral Park; the cheerful summer litera- ture of railway and steamship com- panies and the boarding up of the fronts of city homes are reminders that the season for vacations is again at hand. Are our readers preparing to take theirs, and do they intend follow ing the advice they so frequently give their patients in prescribing new scenes and restful change of occupation?
 Over the entrance of a little roadside inn in Western New York, famous alike for its good cheer and the hospi- tality of its joyial landlord, was placed this appropriate inscription. 'As we journey through life let us live by the way The same idea is found in the gentle admonition of Horace, Carpe diem. The lives of most physicians would perhaps bear the. infusion of a larger strain of this Epicurean philo- sophy; for health, the capacity to enjoy and zest for the good things of life, are fleeting, alike for the doctor and for his patients,
 The undeniable fact that we are on the waiting list of the Down and Out Club should influence us to enjoy the present rationally while we may and not defer too long the execution of cherished plans or count too closely. "To-Hnorrow! Why, tomorrow I may be myself with yesterdays sev'n thousand years!"
 The chief essential in the pleasure of a holiday is the element of change, and for the physician this means, first of all, escape from the valetudinarian atmosphere of practice. We have al- ways had a great admiration for that doctor who spent six weeks in an Adirondack camp without the fact be- ing discovered that he was a physician. This was no small feat of good fellow ship, and he was a better doctor for being able to emerge 50 completely from his professional shell and forego the banalities of shop talk. Do not, then go to summer hotel and imagine you are taking a vacation while minis- tering to the complaints of walters, chambermaids and the occasional guests" These should be left to the care of the local doctor, and 1t has all ways seemed to us that there is sug- gestion of meanness in the physician who continues his fee chasing while | ostensibly taking holiday. There are almost as many desirable ways of spending a vacation as there are opinions and types of men. Culti. vate your hobbies and follow where in. clination leads. At all hazards get out of your accustomed groove ant environment. A French grammar, 2 Baedeker guide, a sketch book or 2 l novel is better companion for a time than the literature of one's working days. There are many who find tha
 there is nothing so good as trip tt Europe on steamship which is not tot fast. We have heard of a worthy gynaecologist who has made repeated trips abroad, but who has seen little or nothing of Europe except what wal visible through specullim. SudmAa | man should take his vacation in tht woods, as far removed from clinics ant 1 hospitals as possible. There should b.
 some practicable method of making |
 a condition of good standing for doc
 tor past the age of forty to take { vacation of at least month ever, year,-Medlcal Journal.