Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-18
Vacation Essentials.
Melvil Dewey In the New York
Independent.


Most people who resolve to take a rest.
perhaps at large sacrifice. come home feel
Ing that what they did ought to have been
something different. Pcrlaps a list OF
'loonts VIII most compactly give the
warnings against mistakes on which ex-
perts largely agree.
Don't accept vastly inferior advantages
simply to save a few hours ride: but even
worse, don't waste strength and thus neu-
,ralize part of the benefit by travelling
thousands of miles 10 find what perhaps
can be had better in one-tenth of the
distance.
If you live inland, go to either coast OF
mountains. II you live IN the mountains
don't go to other mountains but to the
sea, II It's damp salt air agrees with YOU:
!! not, go to the plains and escape tho
humidity so trying to many when physi-
tally below par. II you live within 2Ol
miles or the sea, go straight TO the in
land mountains. The comnloncst mistake
is to go from a seaboard city TO a resort
also near the coast sunply because ii is
quicker. Air Is vastly more important
than food and water, for we eat only
three times a day. but I'M our lungs n
to 20 times q minute. So a complete
change of air is the first essential for a
wise vacation.
Don choose the wrong altitude. FIX
pcrjs here and in Europe, after long study
agree that for the average man the most
perfect elevation is about 1,SOn feet; lower
than that one loses the wonderful tonic
effect and higher many hearts are over
strained. Now and then one perhaps one
to l.oH), finds even 1900 feet too high, If
after a week there is any discomfort he
might better sacrifice other ADVANTAGES
and drop 70 a lower level.
Don't go to an enervating climate. Nine
tenths of those who seek the tropics would
gain twice as much by getting into The
dry cold OF the north. 1t is the difference
between hot and cold baths. Heat feels
much better to the invalid. but all the
world knows that the cold lash tones up
while the hot bath weakens.
Don't fear cold where the air is dry
and home comforts are available. Hun
dreds each year who have thought rho
Adirondack forests a kind of Greenland
that only Arctic explorers should visit in
winter are astonished to find that they
are much more comfortable than in sea-
board cities where the thermometer runs
20 10 40 degrees higher. They are learn
Ing that dry cold does not bite.
Don't buy costly furs and elaborate
equipment. If you choose the right eli
mate, The dry cold often demands no
thicker clothes. II YOU are outdoors with
out exercising much you can buy or rent
the cheap but comfortable local furs. a
$50 long coat is as warm as rare skins
that cost 500 or more. An all-wool 3-in-1
cap, ut trlf'1ng cost. protects ears, neck
and face, one or all as wished.
Don't risk comfort and health and per
haps life in the cold north winter nv lfv-
ing in houses %equiDpe for midsummer
only. Convinced Of the superlative value
of cold and winter sports. one unwjsely
ventures TO use the usual makeshift
house and tries by extra clothing and hot
fires to get through somehow. This is
II grave danger, Sometimes it will be 30
degrees or more near register or stove and
less than 80 degrees nearer doors and
windows. After exercising TIL tired, 1t is
n serious risk to sit in a house fun of
drafts that wander about in search of
a victim.
Don't 80 where snow and ice come and
go. but where they stay put. Shun that
bane of a winter outing. humidity of
melting snow. 1t is as bad for health as
for temper. Dry air and dry snow are
essential to best results.