The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-11-23
A RETURN TO NATURE.
HOW SOME WOMEN SOLVED THE
VACATION PROBLEM.

TGaCc ara @tGl~L TOT ttsG lta-| NOsN'
ers, Who Dislike Crowd or Social
cbucations-The Snail Farm Ex-
pertinent ard It's success-Ratlonal
Rest Periods at Small Cost.
1--WE are to have variation this
year in our programme Of discussion
of the difficulties and miseries of va
cation time for unattached women
kind" The speaker was hostess Of
a small dinner party which is an an
nual function CT the first week in Sep
tember 1t is ironically called the Re
turn to Nature Club" as it celebrates
the return of various business women
to their field of work in New York.
This year emphasizes for most of us
the increasing difficulty of finding a
place where we can have comparative
quiet, decent food, and the freedom of
old clothes. Each year we travel far
ther afield in search of such simple
conditions as these. The country no
tells of Massachusetts, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Maine, not to mention
New York, are either over-run with
trolleyites or have become inns fire.
quented by motorists The farm houses
where a few boarders were taken have
been enlarged and improved, and
consider twenty or thirty boarders
small private family in numbers. AS
for the farmers wife who will take
couple of ladies to board. do we not
know from bitter experience what that
means; wretched food, canned vege-
tables, beds of torment in hardness,
insects of every variety, and candle
or evil smelling little lamp that pre-
vents the solace Of reading to forget
the days miseries?
"No wonder we endure the fatigues
of constant travel either at home or i'll
Europe in order to have a change of
scene, if we have nothing else. Why,
l know of several women who have
gone to board for months in a sani-
tarium for a vacation, just because
there was good food. baths, excellent
service, and, above all, quiet and
these advantages at the price of con
fiding to the doctor in charge of the
place that you had discovered you had
a nervous system!
Womens Vacation Problem.
"The vacation problem which tired
business woman faces each year has
enough discouragements to make her
resolve to ignore every rule of COM
mon sense. There is a small army of
such women. occupying positions of
great responsibility and strain, mental
and physical No, we do not want to
join sister Mary or brother John and
their families and have a long, hap
py month in the country, where they
have taken a house for the summer
Family in any form does not hold the
elements of change and rest which we
seek. Neither do we wish to go and
visit friend, no matter how near and
dear, for visiting has its obliga-
lions for the guest that the fondest
friendship cannot materially change.
1t is not crankiness or old maidish-
ness, but self-preservation. Men, mar
ried or single, can manage it, and do
so. For the unattached woman who
wishes to enjoy peace and rest from
the fatigues of daily life, be it bust
ness or social, difficulties of every sort
confront her.
Cali Of this is but a discouraging re,
hinder of our misfortune. You shall
now hear how the problem has been
solved by some of our fellow sufferers
was asked by friend, teacher, if
l would care to spend a month on her
farm in the New England hills The
country is beautiful and invites walk
ing, wheeling, or driving she pleaded
You will have a good bed, good food
your breakfast in your own room, five
other women will be your fellow
guests, each one a woman of affairs,
entirely competent to find occupation
and recreation without making the
smallest claim on the another. You
will pay me the sum of So a week.
rendering you quite independent Of
any claim on my part as your hostess
The place is seven miles from a rail
way, and there are five houses in a
radius of as many miles
Needless to say 1 accepted thank
fully I found a comfortable house
with a huge barn as an appendage.
The barn was unique; it had been
completely transformed into the chief
living place. The great central part
was a living room with huge fire.
place; galleries ran round the upper
part, and off of them were bedrooms
furnished in the simplet manner, but
the essentials most comfortable. The
effect was that Of big ship. Before