Show OFF FOR A VACATION A an act often too selfish to be entirely Enjoyable Professor ideas the fact which mars tho the vacation of the average preacher is that there are so BO many other people who cannot go out ot of town into the largo field of sunshine and air and trees ile ho knows of scores ol of human beings who need a change and a rest as much as he does he knows ol of many whose body and soul are much more bruised in the city treadmill than are his he knows clerks officials boys I 1 girls and laborers in general to whom a week or a month in the kingdom of nature and liberty would be an inexpressible pleasure and good to go from all these and rattle off for a play spell is often an act too full of selfishness to bo be entirely happy it is too much like the effort of a good mother to go off on a pleasure trip and leave the children be behind 1 I in d she finds that she has left her best ha happiness behind along with the children there is plenty of nonsense in the notion that such mind workers as lawyers editors writers and preachers form a pe culiar class of sufferers and that to them I 1 a holiday is a matter of life or death the real fact is that all persons whose pursuit involves a confinement to a room or a building need alike tho the restoring hand of nature nature attempts wheal to heal all her bruised reeds each night nature comes with sleep to build up tile the system of man and beast but if man has no place for a good sleep and not time for the I 1 restoration his check soon grows pale and liis his hand trembles at all times and in in many ways nature is a healing bealing force if a preacher a lawyer or a clerk br or a sewing girl has sat eat in a room for six or ten months away from all those elements of air light and motion which contain power then nature longs to take hold of that famished prisoner I 1 and work upon him or her the great 1 healing bealing art it does not matter whether 1 the imprisoned person is a preacher or a dressmaker nature seems to desire to fill the office of restorer indeed this dinine healer would just as soon apply her art to a ingersoll as to dear brother moody for we are all round living in a world where the rain and sun bun will heal a bruised weed as kindly as they will vill a stalk of wheat or corn nature will bandage dag 0 a grape vine and a mullen stalk without without respect to persons As to the current notion that brain work is the enemy of only the learned professions it must be kept in perpetual remembrance that many a girl who v ho is ia attempting to carry the burden of life support self and a parent or a younger brother performs an amount of brain work not much surpassed by the professional thinker the worry over a sermon or a brief is not quite as wearing as tho the worry over sisters doctor bill and this months rent the operator who lie sits in a telegraph office may do brain work enough in a day to run a law office for the same length of time were the direction of the power changed professor david swing in chicago journal |