Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-01
A SENSIBLE VACATION.
Annual Problem Facing Everyone
Who Needs q Rest.

Who Needs Rest.
Where are YOU going to spend your
vacation?" This is question that
seems to he trembling on the lips of
every other person one meets on the
streets nowadays. and it is usually
the hardest kind of work to give an
answer right off hand. It's the tough
est problem of the year. this choosing
spot to spend two or three weeks
away from the toll of the Office or the
"sameness" of the home, and one that
in the majority of cases requires the
most serious of discussions by the
whole family before it is solved. Here
is little timely advice about vaca-
ton taking.
First let's talk about the proper time
to start.
Just when and how to take an out
ing is but very little understood by
most people. in fact. it is usually taken
at certain prescribed times, pretty
much as some people wait for Sunday
to come that they may show their re-
ligion.
An outing now ond then is an obsO-
lutte necessity of the physical well be-
ing of the unemployed. as we'll as for
the employed, and the best times to
take it is when one feels nervous and
no longer able to concentrate his mind
without an effort.
Another pretty good indication of
the need of an outing is the frequent
desire to yawn throughout the day.
The cause of yawning is drowsiness.
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a change and rest. So when you feel
that continued desire to yawn and
stretch every little while, if you can
possibly arrange for an immediate out
ing, do So You will not only find that
you have rid yourself of that dull. ia
tigued feeling. but have regained your
lost energies and are able to take up
the reins OF life with renewed vigor.
You will receive greater benefit by
taking a short outing frequently than
one of a couple of weeks duration
twice year.
The time of getting away settled
upor. the question of direction hobs
Up at once.
Are you a worker most of the year
and do you wish to spend your vaca-
ton in the most restful. healthful
way? Avoid the beaten track of no.
tells with the necessary bother of pre-
pairing extra fine clothes. Go in for
simplicity and outdoor life.
Here are some suggestions that may
he managed at less cost than the aver
age summer hotel vacation.
A canoeing trip.
Travel by open trolley.
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house.
country. preferably mountainous.
Hire farm wagon or buggy" and
drive two weeks or month, living in
wagon or tent at night.
Take a tour on horseback or bicycle.
Get up a party and hire cheap
houseboat
Hunt the most picturesque farm
house you can and after sampling one
or two meals persuade them to take
you as their star boarder.
If fond of the water. there are de-
lightful trips along the coast. both At
lartic and Pacific. and it is even pos
sible to go to Europe or Honolulu and
return by next steamer. Bermuda
trips are made at less than half price
in summer and the climate is pleasant.
If staggered at the APPARENT cost of
both board and travelling expenses.
Good accommodation can be had on
many of the freight lines.
For any of these unconventional out
'ings it is important to have congenial
company. A party of four is manage
able and helps lessen cost
In taking an outing do not burden
yourself with too much luggage. Par
ticularly to those who have decided to
spend their outing period out of doors
the following bit of counsel may be
acceptable.
Never go into the woods or out-of-
the way places without beins supplied
with remedies in case of an emergen-
cy Always take hot water bottle
and medicine kit stocked with such
simple home remedies as you are ac-
customed to use.
In addition there should be whisky
bandages, absorbent cotton, adhesice
plasters. quinine, mustard and BELLE
donna plasters, and some collie tablets.
Al ointment to cure stings or allay
itching is also good.
While the romance and excitement IF
away from neighborhood trips are nee
essary absent, a vacation filled with
lots of good solid comfort may be en-
joyed without leaving your back yard.
That is. il you are little ingenious
and willing to work a bit.
A Boston woman who had to spend
her simmer close to home fitted up a
sort of moving summer house that al
lowed her to keep in the open air all
day without being Frustrated by the
sun.