The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-01
URGE IMPORTANCE
OF REAL VACATION
Physician. Offers Advice That Should
Prove Beneficial to Every One
Who Heeds His Suggestions.
(By Or. Marvin z. WestervoIt.)


At this season all OF us are inter-
ested In ''our vacation" have writ
ten many articles on the need of a
vacation and the Importance Of vaca-
ton, and just want to add few more
facts.
For several years the writer's prac-
tice was carried on in a New England
village that for its quiet and peace and
iestfulness canno. be surpassed. It's
homes are mostly spacious and well
kept. It's streets are beautiful with
flowers, shrubbery and elms. Many
a. person has there found both recrea-
ton and recreation. Such place
makes an ideal spot for such a pur-
pose. Not far distant from this village
there is a large inland lake, around
The shores Of which there have sprung
ZIP numerous summer "hotels"
Families living there have trans
formed their homes into boarding
houses. Single large rooms have been
partitioned off into two or three small
or rooms; the wood shed is converted
into sleeping quarters; even way up
in the attic are found rooms with the
yafters and the roof for the ceiling
and this is so low that II can easily
lie brushed by the hand of the occu-
pant. In these rooms we have found
one, two and three and over a holiday
even four occupants. living under con-
ditions that they would not tolerate
at home.
The only provision for the disposal
of your wardrobe is some nails driven
INTO the walls: the only means of
ventilation Is usually one small win
dow; the only bathing facilities is the
Jake itself, and the only sanitary con-
veniences are those common to most
country communities. Throughout
the day they row. fish. or take tramps
over the hills and through the woods
throughout the evening they dance
and romp and raise Cain in particular
and then, all tired out, they seek their
rest in close. stuffy. ill-ventilated
room and on cots they would not ask
Il servant at home to occupy.
II Would.
Would it not be better to remain
ut home where one may have at least
The conveniences and comforts that
they are accustomed to than to live
ander such conditions as we have pic
tured? Is seeking recreation under
such circumstances very likely to yield
that recreation that vacation pc
Rod should yield? It Is true that there
win be a certain exhilaration of spirits
ongendered by a vacation spent as we
nave described but its benefits. If there
are any soon wear off and the tired
ness OF the body and the Tagging Of
he brain which has simply been
masked by this exhilaration, win mani
Test itself
You will soon hear a person who has
spent such vacation saying:
ooh! had dandy time but I am
III tired out"
The real object of the vacation has
been missed: the benefits that might
have been derived have not been ex-
Derienced: nature has not been given
he help she needed in renewing the
worn parts. in building up the broken
strands: in re-creating a more nearly
perfect machine.
The foregoing Is only one example
II how a vacation period may be
tbused. There are many other ways
hat viii occur to you in the light Of
What we have said regarding the real
purpose OF a vacation There can be
10 question as to the importance of
his rest period but its benefits can.
be and will be realized only as a great
At stress is put upon the need for
recreation rather than recreation.
I am going to offer few hints as
precautions It is well to observe.
These apply especially to those people