Norwich bulletin., 1915-06-26
THE TECHNIQUE OF REST

1 sleeping room. to the two girls, who during their term of possession used it exactly as though it had been their own. They would go out to the place lsfor week end visits In time to get their l flower and vegetable gardens planted, to start their hens setting and Of course, when the chicks came out, the man on the place looked after them till
 the temporary tenants came.
 Two big floor tents on the edge of the woods which bordered the home | lot were used for sleeping, except In stormy weather, when the city girls found refuge in the house. Naturally, they quite transformed the humble
 dwelling, retaining all that was really good in its furnishings, adding com forts and luxuries of their own, so that the aged owners derived much benefit from their annual summer stay.
 They had a tennis court laid out, a telephone installed one furnished the money for drilling an artesian well, there was a garage in the town from which a handy taxi could be summon ed when required, they were free to
 sketch, or read or just laze or frivol
 to become formal and entertain the few pleasant friends they made in the town, or those whom they might in Yite from the city. AS they expressed it, they went back to their duties real ly new women, made over in mind and strength and happiness by their sum- mer experiences.
 A mother in suburban town had two daughters, one anxious to take college course. The husband and father had a salary quite too small for that purpose. So the mother looked about until she found small hotel by the shore, having the ad- vantage of nearness to the post road, the railway and trolley line.
 The conveniences were discouraging- ly primitive; but it was in pleasant grounds, sea bathing was free and ac- cessible; by hard work it's rooms were made inviting and the landlady- elect notified a number of her city friends that she was prepared to take summer boarders.
 She made the great point of having a table that was of the best, and her two daughters made attentive and ef- hcient waitresses. She was able to secure an excellent cook from near by town and worked with her from early till late-for the appetites of those boarders quite refuted the state ment of the physiologies that the human stomach holds but three pintSi
 There came times when she was tired and discouraged; but she had stick -a- -tiveness, and found much comfort in the daily afternoon swims with her daughters, the coolness of the wide, vine shaded piazzas, the thought Of how much benefit her husband derived from his week end visits and above all. the fact that she was slowly but surely accommodating a nestegg toward her elder daughters college entrance fee. She repeated the experiment during four summers; and now. it is said, Is working to put the younger daughter through college in the same manner.
 The mother who has no time for outings, but will stay at home to sew twelve yards of braid trimming on a dress for her young daughter, is not near so wise as is the one who buys fifty cent frock for her child, taking her and the others of the family to the nearest woods, or beach or river bank for picnic, if it is not possible to get away for a week or fortnight, even to the plainest shack or cottage. The children may be romping and noisy; but is is not nearly so trying to man age them well as it would be to care for them i'll!
 The beneficial vacation need not be expensive. It need not be anything more than a trolley ride into a new section, anything which will get mind and body and soul out of the daily, humdrum peck measure of existence. The very inconveniences of a cheap outing are an advantage, since. they impress the realization of the com forts of home.
 Better than any long journey or voyage, to be sure. is the frequent lit tie treat of a trip into unknown ter ritory, a a-week-end to some such place as a big town. to Atlantic City, per haps as cure for dulness an dde- pression; a hill climb, a boat ride, even a tour of big store, anything which will prevent one from, as the phrase is, going stale.
 Some one remarks that Content ment is the undertaken of ambition;" {" and it is a bad thing to settle down to rust out, like an old wagon; not to get the eyes opened to something out side the narrow vision of daily duties and cares. or even pleasures. The newness, novelty. of even discomforts jostles one out of the deadly sameness; the mistaken narrowneSS of
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