The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-04-16
For and By
Business Girls
Planning for a Vacation
BY MARY KING

Planning for Vacation
For a month or so before vacation
time the business girl usually starts
a strenuous saving campaign. In the
short time she allows herself for the
campaign she cuts down on her meals
and frequently goes without one. and
ailcws herself no amusement or relax
ntion which will cost her penny. The
pre-vacation days often mean days
filed with unusually hard work for
her in catching up on back work and
seeing that everything is in good order
when she leaves, so that it is a time
when she can east afford to econo-
mize to the extent of stinting herself
or her meals and giving up wholesome
amusements
The sensible business girl arranges
for a yearly vacation just as for any
other health protection, business III
yestment, or personal insurance. She
knows that efficiency and general well.
being demand an annual holiday. Re
Taxation and recreation must be care
fully arranged and considered by the
business girl who would continue tC
do her best.
A good vacation, therefore, should
be considered less as an expense thar
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as an investment That it may moi
strain the finances too severely at ans
one time. and that the business girl
may not have to forego necessities, the
vacation should be saved for steadily,
Systematically, the year around, the
new fund being started Immediately
after returning from the annual holt
day. Any vacation money" left over
from the work year just concluded
may serve as a vacation nucleus for
the working year to come. In this
connection the annual vacation has
rendered many clever but not too
sagacious a business girl the best of
good service by teaching her how to
save.
The period Immediately succeeding
the annual vacation is one of the best
in which to acquire the habit of steady
saving. Vacations usually taking
place in the summer, they are apt to be
followed by financial lull Clothing
needs have been supplied until the
autumn; no large expense of any order
is apt to fall due at this quiet season.
The returned holiday maker feels So
bright and fresh and equal to anything
that now projects may be started in
the best of spirits. The rested brain.
moreover, easily grapples with
thoughts and possibilities and prob
lens too apt, in times of physical AMI
nervous lassitude and dullness, to be
languidly pushed aside.
That every business girl, as every
girl of any and every order, should
save regularly goes without saving.
Nobody, however we'll provided for in
the present, has any real hostage for
the future, Nobody, however pros
porous and efficient, knows when i'll
ness, family reverses, accident, sud
den loss of employment, any or all
Of the numerous or untoward contin-
sencies open to humanity, may re-
duce, remove or absorb the income.
Self-respect. as self interest, shrinks
from outside aid as a substitute for
personal financial independence. Many
d convalescense has been retarded,
many a promising opportunity lost
for lack of the little money that
might, in more normal seasons, so
easily have been laid aside.
Methods of saving, of course, must
be decided by the individual, suited
to individual needs and cases, but
certain ways and means of saving
are available, useful to all. Deposit
ing certin sum of money in the
bank every pay day represents one
of the best methods; endowment life
insurance is another; there are bonds
that may be bought safely, under
auspices and direction;
securities. OF the latter
war savings stamps are to be had
for small sums, on simplest possible
terms, and earn high rate of inter
est Many thoughtful business girls
who are able to lay aside the war
savings stamps method of saving to
ny other, since while they are re-