The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-08-01
HOW TO GET MOST
OUT OF VACATIONS
Start Holiday in Cheerful Frame OF
Mind to Obtain Health
Benefits.

New York. Aug Why is it that
30 many persons return tired out
from their annual Vacations? Why
do they receive no physical benefit
from the holiday Why do they ex-
hibIt symptoms OF exhaustion when
they take up work again?
The medical correspondent OF The
London Times believes he has solved
the problem. In writing Of the con-
clusions which he has reached, he adj
ties. The main thing is he says, that
grained beliefs OF medical authori-
ties The main thing Is he says, that
the majority start on their vacations
with q wrong mental attitude. He
says they must possess a Cheerful
spirit and manifeet it, or their out
iugs won I do them any good.
j. The annual holiday wfch most
city men take is always to some ex.
tent a pilgrimage OF health, he says.
II Is often successful in this re-
spect. but sometimes success is
marred by foolish and even foolhardy
measures which, instead OF conduct
ing health, lower vitality and make
the return to town a positive bless
ing.
II cannot be said too often, he con-
tnues. that the first essential OF a
healthy holiday is not fresh air, or
the sea- or the mountains but cheer
fulness The man who does not enjoy
his holiday does not deserve the ben
ent OF IL. In fact, he seldom or
never does benefit, because he carries
rebellious mind or bored mind
with him wherever he goes.
This is only another way OF stating
the first great truth OF all medicine.
he says, that the body Is perpetually
and almost completely under mem
tai influences. II may seem a strange
statement from physician, but the
writer IL firmly convinced that more
people die OF the fear OF disease-that
IS to say, OF beirI told they have
some disease or other-than OF dis
ease itself. II you tell man he has
heart disease every passing attack OF
indigestion becomes "syncope." he
takes no exercise. The poisons In his
body mount up and he goes to bed
Persuade him that HIS diagnosis was
mistaken, and he will resume his or
dinary life.
How II Should Be Done
SO II Is on the wider plane of rec
reation, says the physician. Send
your lover OF tennis parties and pret-
ty frocks to rough IL In yacht OFF
the west coast OF Scotland and he Will
simply fail to be restored. The un-
congenial surroundings, the cold, the
exposure, the rough food win upset
and annoy him He may take on a
healthy enough tan on his skin. un
der his skin there will be discomfort
and weariness.
Reverse the process Send the man
who loves the bathing with winds ana
enjoys the adventure OF new harDors
and dangerous tides TO the small.talk
and prettlness Of south country
watering place and he will cry out to
be released.
This doctrine Is clearly against the
views OF those who say that variety
IL more important than anything
Sc But these people fail to under
stand that variety must be qualified
II II is to be successful, says the
writer l 'f"''
This truth disposes Of half the diff
Guilty OF choosing q place for hol
iday. The pace will largely choose
Itself. The real d fllculty-which Is
nearly always oyerlooked--is how to
behave when the holiday begins: how.
In fact to get over the barrier be.
tween work and its habits and the
play which is to come.