The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-08-02
Unless You Leave Your Worries Behind Your Vacation Won't Do You Any Good and Your Money
 and Time Will Both Be Spent
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

@ F course, you are going to have II a vacation this summer; that's
 W settled because you are a per fectly sensible person, and you know very well that you can't keep on ham mering away at whatever you are doing, whether it's housekeeping, boarding. working in an office, or any old thing, and not get little rest from the drudg- cry of your hum drum existence; but there's an important thing to think about in planning your vacation, a really important thing which maybe you haven't thought about.
 Anybody can get on the train and go somewhere and call 1t vacation, and, of course, it Is vacation of a kind, but just stop right here and remember before you begin to make your plans about going away, and spending your money for clothes and hotel bills and railroad fare, that your vacation isn't going to do you one bit of good if you don't leave your worries behind you; your money and your time will be wasted, and you might as we'll stay at home; it's less expensive to worry there than at a summer resort. Right in this little suggestion lies the main point of the story; 1t Is the real secret of q bene- ficiaI vacation.
 It matters not how much money you may have; how many fine clothes you may buy, you won't enjoy yourself and get the real relaxation that a vacation is supposed to afford unless you ''pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and leave 1t behind you when you get on the train.
 There's an old saying about 'be good and you'll be happy, but you won't have good time;" and 1t might be para phrased to the vacation proposition; "get rid of your worries and you'll be happy and have good time, too.'
 "Whats the use of worrying; it never was worth while" is another line of Her Soldier Boy' song which should stick fast and tight when you get ready to leave home; but then somebody says: Think of all the things I've got to come back to; the problems that will confront me and all that sort of thing; I'd rather never take a vacation;" even so, but couldn't you somehow manage to set them right before you start on your lit- tie two weeks trip?
 If they can be helped, they can be helped just as easily before you go away as when you come back and if there's no help for them, then whats the use of worrying; it never was worth while," don't you see?
 Wasn't 1t Fighting Bob Evans who once said:
 There are two things I never worry aboutAthose I can't help, and those can belp."
 Good philosophy, that.
 You know the anticipated trouble lot of times doesn't really ever come, or if It does 1t isn't half as bad as we thought 1t was going to be-
 Of course, the problem of taking a rest, what we call vacation, Is after all an individual issue; in the first place, everybody ought to have one; even these strenuous war times. which necessitate economy and the cutting down of expenses and all that sort of thing shouldn't deter us for health and happiness depend upon 1t. The work that we do when we are tired out men tally and physically is not going to do anybody any good; not one of us Is made of steel or iron; even If we were, those strong metals themselyes wear out when used constantly and the delicate nerves and organism on which we largely de- pend require relaxations and rest and to