Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-31
THE VACATION

\ The following one-sided conversa-
ton was overheard in a downtown
restaurant:
you know, the place was crowd
ed from the time we got there I'LL
we felt. They tried to feed me up
on veal loaf and salads, and 1 never
cared for either. I rarely saw my
wife; she would start out In the
morning to pick blackberries, and
when she came back she was so tired
that she had to go to bed. Ihe
children seemed to have a good
time, but they wore their clothes
to shreds and tatters. Smoke
never smoked so much in my llte'
And to my dying day Ill never for-
get that trip home. In the station
they were packed even into the
telephone booths And to-day my
stenographer told me she was going
on a vacation or quit l hate TO let
the little shrimp feel that I'm pc.
holden to her, but what can l 90
It's better to let her go for a while
that forever. Lord, it's awful!
There is a possibility that this man
enioved, or at least benefited from,
his vacation in ways OF whlch ne
himself is unaware. III the inteL-
ruption of the normal brought honle
to him the wholesomeness OF roIs
tine activity, he is a wiser man.
the civic center which ne In alIecIaoh. ~
ateIv calls his home town Appeals 10
him as the best place in which 10
snend his time and money, dhe
nuaIitv of his citizenship has peen
i'm moved. If his children ruined
their clothes, it is likely that they
improved their health at the same
time. ,-ooo+ior,
I, of course. an art, for 1t is largely
a matter of playing tricks on the
mind We go away to see new races
hut the most essential feature Oh u
town of any size is it's transient popu-
lation. Or we so to get chanse
of diet. but the cook is the most
nNtable of household personaItless::
Or we go for a change or ar out II
we travel sixty miles to the norm
and n north wind begins to blow az
the rate of sixty miles an hour, 1t Ia
onIv an hour until that same air
raocbes our home Or we go to es-
cane the heat, but it is an open secret
tbat IL can. and frequently does
GET inst as hot in, say. the peacelul
Wales of the Berkshire hills as IL ooes
at Laredo. Texas.
Nothing surpa sses in interest mans
relation to his own mind ana body'
The yacationist knows, subconsclous-
TIv that he cannot have the comforts
of home while away. But 1t Is n
change and as such produces a
mental Improvement, even though II
he. physically. for the worse. 1t may
he unpleasant to be forced to change
our mind: but it is eXhilarating TO
change II at all. Each part is set
in action. whereas before it all moved
in the accustomed groves of current
life. On the vacation we do num-
her of little things none of which re-
sembles the other and all of which
combined are unlike the big home
task. -.
Some people go on vacations Just
to be unlike Kant, who never left
Konigsbergl The dissimilarity flat
ters. Other tell all about their pro-
spective Quincy long in advance, in
order to be different from Goethe,
who. when he started on a vacation.
never told anyone where he was GO
ing or when he was coming back =
except those who made his journey
materially possible. And Goethe rode
through Switzerland with the blinds
of his carriage drawn; there was
nothing there to see but noun
| tains. From the New York Eve
ming Post.