The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-10
Parents Too
Are in Need
of Vacation
BY MARTHA Z

These ~scorching days, with the
sun blazing mercilessly down, are
turning our thoughts toward vaca-
ton.
Vacation does not necessarily
mean getting away from the heat
and the sun and the other discom-
forts that come with hot weather.
It means getting away from those
things we 10 for eleven and a half
months. Il means breaking the
monotony Of existence during a sea-
son Of the year when monotony is
Just more than we can bear.
Young boys ana girls who have
been working all winter are all
steamed up about what they are go
ing 10 DO when they get their two
weeks"
It's going 70 mean a change OF
scenery. new friends to meet, new
sights to see. They feel that after
a winter and s~ring and part Of a
summer Of doing the same thing day
in and day out, they have a right to
a change. And so they go about
planning their vacations.
Doing Same Things
In the meantime mother goes on,
doing the same task she has been
Going for the past twenty or twenty
I'VE years. She cooks and sews and
bakes and cleans within the same
four walls that have been her back
ground for many a year, sometimes
without a variation. She helps her
children with their vacation plans,
makes their clothes and gets them
ready for the "-pTee."
And their dads, when they have
two weeks, usually spend the time
p~uttering around the yard, fixing
up the house and doing odd jobs
that have been wanting done all
yea since last vacation.
OF all those Who need a change Of
environment. new scenes, and a sue
cession Of days of leisure. these
mothers and dads top the list. Dads
diversion consists of the contacts he
makes at the Office or factory. His
change of scenery. year after year.
is the landscape, billboards, and the
houses that lie On the path between
his home and his Office.
MOnotonOus Kind
Mothers news of the outside
world and its doingS is cleaned from
newspapers, the conversation of her
children and her husband. Her
work is that deadly monotonous
kind of work that never is done.
The sort of work that must be re-
peated every day.
You think there are not mothers
like this any more? Read this:
Dear Miss Lee-I have been married
thirty years. Ms husband I have had it
rather hard. as we never made much
money. and with our three children to
rear and educate. We have had to prac-
tice the s~trictest economy.
Nov the children all are grown and able
to support themselves. None Of them is
married. They contribute toward the up
keep OF the home and it has lifted the
financial burden from my husbands
shoulders some.
In all these wears. my husband and ]
never have had a vacation. He has spent
his time Of from the office doing things
around the house that have accumulated
since his last vacation. We never have
dared to spend the money for a trip.
Always Go Away
The children always 90 some place each
year. I am glad they can. They need
a change. But I think we do too. And
my husband has had such a struggle
setting on his teet all these years. he feels
We should not spend money so foolishly.
What do you think? Would we be silly
to spend money like this2
No. it would rot be silly. 1t is just
what you both need badly. Take
your little bank account and have
yourselves a glorious time. Go
places and DO things. and see peo-
pie. You will both profit by it much
more than the little money in the
bank can profit you. Every one
needs an occasional vacation.
Every one needs a change. 1 would
say after thirty years. you both de-
serve a regular spending spree. And
let the children take care of the I'M
expected, if It should rear its head.