Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-11
VACATIONS

reap his harvest. Do you realize that
at no season of the year is there so
much sickness as directly after the
annual vacation season?
Don't think that 1 am knocking va
cations. Far be 1t from me. The idea
is good. We should all take rest and
have a good change some time during
the year and the summer has come to
be considered the right time to take 1t.
Why will people who show at least
ordinary intelligence during the entire
ten or eleven months when they are
at home show such a woeful lack OF
common sense when rest time comes?
Many of the resorts show an utter
lack of knowledge or thought of sani-
tation and people who at home look
carefully after the plumbing and wa
ter seem to think that because they
are "on a vacation" there is no need
to think of these things, and until the
patrons demand it the proprietors will
not think it necessary to supply hy-
gienic conditions. The out of door
life will, of course, do something to
protect one, but it cannot do every
thing, and so until people pay more
attention to what Is on the ground
above the water supply and where the
sewer, If there is one, empties, there
will be a rich harvest of typhoid FEVER
each fall.
Mdny WIO bhO AOSb VI eAAN
year lead the most sedentary life seem
to think that they can rush madly
into the most violent exercise and be
the better for it. This Is not true.
Take things slowly at first, gradually
working up to more vigorous forms or
exercise and you will be far better for
your temperate beginning.
Our mode of life is all wrong. We
are in one great procession of bustling,
,aSfIaSc man and women. who are
rushing rapidly toward confirmed in
yalidism or premature death. We are
becoming gluttons of work. We de-
bauch our minds by using them to ex-
cess. A morbid appetite for toll is
being cultivated. Many men are al
most incapable of taking holiday and
seem to have lost the power of enjoy
ing ANYTHING except work. Learn to
take things more easily and when you
get home keep up the exercise you
have trained yourself to. Don't go
back to taking the car every time
YOU have a few blocks to go. Walk
1t will do you good. You should be
ready for it after your vacation, ana
Won will feel better for it all winter
IF YOU have been to the beach and
have become accustomed to ocean
baths keep them up. You won't nave
the ocean, but you have big tub ana
plenty of water, and sea salt is cheap
at any drug store. The tonic effect
will not be as great perhaps, but still
Won will feel better all day for your
bath and good salt rub. The salt stlm-
mates the circulation and helps the
skin to throw off impurities with
greater ease.
You have become accustomed to
much out of doors-keep 1t up. sleep
out of doors, eat out OF doors, nVe
out of doors all that you can. You
will be surprised to see how much that
will be and how many hours you can
keep out of the office and SUN 90
your work. In truth, you will be able
to do more and do 1t better If you
keep your blood we'll oxygenated ana
bounding through your veins.
Home has many advantages over the
resorts. Your food is fresher and bet
ter prepared at home and fresh Vege-
tables are far more plentiful.
Change is good and we all need II.
Those who live at a high altitude
should seek the seashore, and vice
versa. hut after we have had that let
us keep up the good habits of out of
door life. plenty of sleep. which you
won't get at fashionable resort, but
NAV find at home, and more recrea-
tion during the year. When another
summer comes around perhaps you Will
not feel so tagged out and in such need
of a rest. You may lose few dol
lars, but 1 doubt it, and the gain in
health and happiness will be some
thing to marvel over.