The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-08-26
HOW PEOPLE LIVE
AWAY FROM HOME.
Random Thoughts on A
Weeks Stay at ASummer
Resort. Studying the
Foibles and Fancies of the
Human Family an Inter-
esting Pastime.

II was GLADSTONE, we believe,
who said that the best of rec
reation was change Of occnpa-
ton The author of this bit O:
philosophy was an incessant
worker who crowded three lives
into one and experience must have
taught him that diversion and not
rest brought relaxation to the
over-Strained mental tissues of
the busy man. The man who
lives under mental strain does
not find peace and happiness in
idleness. When the August month
approaches he sits in his office and
sighs for the seashore or the
mountains where the music Of the
tapping waves or the signing of
the pines drives away business
cares and close communion with
nature brings peace and happi-
ness and contentment to the
weary mind. Thrusting busi-
ness aside he journeys to his
fovorite resort but ere he has
spent day among unfamiliar
scenes and still more unfamiliar
faces the picture fades and his
wish is that he were at home
again wrestling with the old prob
lens that had brought burrows to
his face and tinged his hair with
gray. He is unhappy because he
is idle and then an innate some
thing impels him to seek diver
sions because they bring forget
fulness anu very shortly he will be
found on the lake rowing, al
though he has not picked up an
oar since he was boy, or he will
take long jaunts into the hills and
mountains. never complaining of
the discomfort he suffers from the
rays of broiling, midday sun.
1t is the impulse to do something
out of the ordinary that is the es-
sence of all JOY at the watering
places. Creating diversions for
yourself you help others to enjoy
themselves until finally your fee
BILE beginning resolves itself into
continuous round of enjoyment
that begins with the morning meal
and ends with the midnight hour.
Add to this the meeting of new
acquaintance, the renewal of old
friendships, the tales of adventure
recounted by loquacious guest,
the jokes of the budding humor;st,
the misfortunes of the unfortunate,
the growls of the grouchy, ill-tem-
pered dyspeptic and you have the
sum total of days incidents at
the average watering place.
1t was at Jackson Springs. one
ofNorth Carolina s famous resorts,
that the editor Of The Herald re-
Gently spent a week. Jackson
Springs is situated in the foot
hills of Moore county and is reach
ed by travelling over the A. c. L.
railroad to Hope Mills, thence to
Aberdeen by the Rockfish & Aber-
deem railroad where you take the
Ashboro & Aberdeen railroad
which carries you to the Springs.
Here you find large hotel with
about 200 rooms, equipped with
j AID modern conveniences, and
dotting the hills for a radius of a
mile are a number of pretty cot
tages filled to overfowing dur
ing the summer months. The
origin of Jackson Springs as a
summer resort is not so very old,
but the discovery of the spring
itself dates back to the time when
the country was wilde. ness and
the painted Indian warrior went
there to quench his thirst and the
skin.clad squaw used its rocks 10
grind her meal and rinsed away the
husks with its never-ceasing wa
tiers. The rock upon which the