Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-08-01
VACATION NJ


There is a reason why, when a man
a TAX a few days from the routine
professional of his task, he ought to
AXE them. He will come back after
| the interval the better able to do JUS
| tice to his work. 1t is not merely the
fact of physical r~ecuperation, or be-
| cause nerves and brain find sedatives
and restoratives by the waves of the
sea or lin the shadow Of the glen."
But the arms length from one's bread
winning occupation gives n h op-
~portunity, as 1t were, to take account
Of stock; to measur the losses and
the gains of the antecedent year, to
sum up the actions OF each day." as
C~hatterton's hero. Sir Charles Bawdin,
used to do leach night before he
slept" n see in what particulars the
varied pattern of our lives can be i'm
proved upon There is the opportunity
to mingle with all sorts n conditions
of men, n to modify our points OF
view by contact with theirs. or add to
our stores of information In matters
wherein they are wise and can give us
knowledge. Vacation always connotes
an emptying. 1t signifies the creation
of a Of some sort: but it means
or should mean that room Is thereby
made to replace many stale and old
and outworn thoughts with new ideas,
revivfying fancies, and fresh aspira-
tons. 1t is not worth while to create
n vacancy till you know what you
are going to put there. A mar does
no dig a cellar till he intends to erect
a house. Otherwise he will merely
create by the roadway an ungly, gap
ing void. suggesting the inception Of a
purpose that is not destined to be full
filled.
We are not meant to go on thresh-
ing out h thoughts and ideas we had
when we were young, in the hope of
After we have been taking out for
these years and years we must be
putting something back. Nature,
strictly but truly said to abhor a
vacuum meant least Of all to let our
minds remain unfurnished. It is a
melancholy thing to go into an empty,
dismantled house in summer. Once
only a little while ago-the cheerful
c%oncourse of life ebbed and flowed
there. A fire burned upon the hearth;
there was The hustle of preparation of
the meals, the welcome and the speed
ing of the guests. the vivid and alb
sorbing business of the family. Now
all Is silent and deserted and the
spider filings his trapeze unrebuked.
!. Dust has settled where the housemaid's
indefatigable broom was plying. The
window panes are blurred that
once gave signs Of stirring activity
within. The football hollowly echoes
and the accents of ones voice are given
PACK In a ghostly fashion as one goes
from room to room, opening doors into
a darkened desolation where a little
while ago children's voices rams as
they laughed and battered upstairs and
down.. When the family went away
tney did more than leave behind them
a PHYSICAL emptiness. It was a moral
n spiritual depletion and not merely
a bodily removal. There were taken
way no simply chairs and tables.
rugs and pillows and books and tick
ing clocks. There went also the human
intercourse, the friendly sympathy.
mat U q soul where now the four
walls stand as empty as the tomb Of
Ozymandias.
AS we grow older in a hoping
likewise to grow older in grace. Wa
nate TO think that our unoccupied
minds could ever be like that tenant-
less u We have a wholesome fear
OF a resounding void where we mi9ht
ln time nave stored true thouRhts.
gooo thoughts. thoughts fit to treasure
up. therefore we try to read rood
DOCKS. nverse with interesting peo-
pie, improve II we can such opnor-
tunity Tor ltberalixing influences Of
uavel e may present themselves. OBJ
serve widely where we 60, and 81 M
ouctive deductive mental pro.
cesses profit by all that We see ma
nesF. we now In vacation have dime
eno z Reasonable interval TO
witn the soodly fellowship Of our oVn