The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-05
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to vacation that will make you feel more
in need of one than when you went away.
Vacations are of various worth, and it takes
some folks at least two weeks to get back
to normal after one. With them the term
means more of license than anything else.
The thing they need is a good fatherly talk
before going away, and your uncle is appoint
ed to give it to them.
What's vacation for anyway Some
fellows plod along and never take vacation.
Yet in spite of it all they seem to get along as
we'll as their neighbors. Does that argue
that vacations are merely fads? While it is
true some vacations are worthless, the real
vacation is of great worth to the fellow who
knows how to use it. The chances are that
Mr.. Podder would be able TO do still better
work if he had vacation once and while.
The object of vacations is to tone up the
tired nerves, strengthen the tired Drawn. in
crease the circulation, and give inspiration.
Whether ornot you get this result will depend
on the kind of vacation you take. If you
are wise in the use of your time off you
should return to business new man. If
you are unwise you had better by far remain
at home.
change.
The city man eeds the country and the
country man needs the city. After the con-
finement of Office walls the country man
seems instinctively to broaden the shoulders,
fill the lungs and give elasticity to the foot
steps. There is something in the air, the
broad expanse of sky without SCOT or smoke,
: the very sense of freedom that acts and reacts
upon the nerves and whole being of the tired
city man. The food is different. The
water seems different and very often is.
After few days he feels like new man
: and wants to engage in jobs of unskilled
: workmen on the farm. The result can't be
measured for it will be like the current from
storage battery distributing itself in the
activities of the year. And few days in
the city does the same for the country man.
Urban life will stimulte his thought, tire
his body in new way and send him back
to his job feeling that the city may have its
amusements and luxuries but he d rather
have the open sky and fresh air and free
dom.
It's folly to think that a vacation will
not tire you. If you are one of those
s restless creatures that must be forever on
5 the move the vacation will give you the
6 chance to get thoroughly tired. If your
5 physician has told you that you must get
0 away and just sit around and breathe in the
8 good air you will get tired of that. know
5 of nothing so firing as to have to remain on
the loafing list. But whatever is prescribed
) it should tire you enough to make you sleep
D as soon as you 60 to rest. But there is a
) difference between getting tired and being
worn out. You should use your energy to
D get more but you must beware of dissip pat
ing it. And there is just where the folly of
5 many vacations come in. Folks get the
, idea that a vacation is time for doing just
D what you please and they waste hours and
squander energy that should be turned to
profit.
The wise man will try to make his va
cation means of storing away energy for
the future.
1t is unwise to imagine that vacation is
merely few weeks of license. To be sure
you should get away from shop. The best
results can't be attained if you are always
thinking shop. But if you have planned
4 the thing right you will get inspiration and
energy and unconsciously store it away for
the hard pull that may come next winter.
You should make it point to get as far from
your usual occupation as possible even
s though your pocketbook won't allow you
the pleasure of an extended trip.
But vacations are full of peril as well as
4 blessings. In a country like ours ability to
2 pay the bills is the passport to equal stand
ing at vacation places. Yet money is no
guarantee of worth. In fact it is very Of
ten the snare that entraps the unwary.
Beware OF vacation extremes. Even the
best of people do things at the shore they
5 would never dream of doing at home. The
| fact that others are taking Liberties with
dress at first arouses pity, but all to soon
you are ready to follow the pace. We for
I get that there is a close affinity between
5 loo seness of dress and taking liberties in
1 conduct. Manya girl invites immodest ad-
vances because her dressing challenges it.
People are human; only on vacation, away
= from restraint, they are more so.
D You should be just as honorable with the
| girl you meet at the breakfast table as you
are with your best friends at home.
Yet it often happens that vacation opens
the way for dangerous romances. The sexes