The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-24

the summer when the thermometer is at fever heat than at any other time in the year. and it's mighty hard for the best of us to keep our shirts on'' when it's sizzling and stewing and frying hot in July and August Everybody needs a vacation. recreation. pleasure, now and then.
 A vacation Is to the adult what Christi mas Is to the child-a glorious event that seems as if it will never come, and which IS ecstatically joyful while it lasts. but which alasi is only too soon over with
 Like the advertised soap, nobody is happy until he gets it.
 Toward those ''delayed-in-town folks to whom a vacation is still 'a-coming' we must exercise a rare and saint-like patience or get out of their way when We see them coming.
 The "stay-at-home" to whom until now summer has not been so terribly hot or unbearable, is the one who has wrestled With mosquitoes, swatted the noble fly. listened to the "Honki" 'Honki' of the motor car that doesn't belong to him. and who has drunk lemonade and soda water as last resort when a parched thirst has gotten the best of him.
 He has wearied of 'canned music, and Is tired out with moving pictures. and has ridden every suburban trolley line untll he knows the stations as we'll as tho conductor and the motorman themselves know them. He has talked about the war" which for a while was A per- feet god-send being a brand new topic of conversation, but now has become a bore, and in the meantime has listened to all his friends tell about their trips. the people they met, the good times they've had, and everything else under the sun.
 He feels about all this hilarity like the boy in sick bed stretched out be- fore a window, watching the healthy youngsters in the street below as the Sunday school picnic starts off on its an- nual trip and he follows the crowd as far as his poor little old eyes will see. looking at the wagons carrying the luncp baskets with all sorts of "goodes'' ir. them and the ice cream freezers literally buging with their contents and the spice scented gingerbread and hard boiled eggs Which actually poke fun at him because he can't go.
 Like such poor belated youngster is the vacationless man or woman who would fain turn his head to the wall and weep his heart out since he must needs be up and doing just as though he were interested in things
 He's vicious in truth, furiously mad. and 1t is just about the hardest task that anybody ever had to perform to grin and bear it.
 
 Is interested in all the nice things that everybody else has been enjoying is a. mighty hard task
 Few of us can stand the test long 8 a time of seeing happiness through an- other mans eyes.
 We want little of it to come ,ur way once in while
 Take vacation before it is too late.
 If you don't hurry up and draw your two weeks pay in advance, and escape to some other environment than that you've moved in all the year round, you won't be able to do your work satisfac- torily during the hard winter that's hearly here. Get in touch with mother earth. Go out into the country. If you afford 1t, take a sea trip. If you can't Take any sort of an old trip that is pos- sibe.
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 You'll find when you get back that you will be more appreciated,
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 That youll be more appreciative.
 You will even for the little change or
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