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Show TAKE TIME TO ENJOY LITTLE SENSE IN OVERWORKING TO THE BREAKING POINT. Virtue That Is Excellent, In Moderation, Modera-tion, Can be Transformed Into a Vice How One Woman Con. serves Her Strength. "She's making big money," said a man to me the other day, speaking of a mutual acquaintance, a woman who, beside editing a magazine, had recently undertaken to write a series of articles that would require a lot oi 1 research, "but what she needs is to learn to spend some of It. What's the good of money in the bank to a dead person. She Is overworking hersell to the breaking point" The savings bank habit is a mighty good one, but you don't want to let It get the best of you. You can overda prudence Just as you can anything. A virtue that grows to be an obsession cannot be distinguished from a vice. There are times when you ought to be extravagant, ought to give yourself your-self "the best there Is," and think it none too good. We all know what it is to feel stale. If we realized tha severe nervous breakdowns often start with that same "stale" feeling we might learn to regard it more seriously seri-ously than we do. When you feel "all tuckered out" cash a check at the bank and run down to Atlantic City for a couple of days. They'll do you more good than a month after the doctor has ordered a rest. One woman I know takes four days every month to play In, going on Wednesday night and returning Monday Mon-day morning. As she doesn't take the half holiday holi-day on the other Saturdays to which she is entitled, you see she doesn't really lose much time. She leaves town either alone or with a chum who pron'1 expect her to be "sociable," goes to the sea or the hills or to some other oth-er city, puts up at a simple hotel where the food lsgood, and Just plays. You would never think, if you met her 9n one of theBe Jaunts, that she knew what work was. She always takes a good book with her, one of the "old ellows," as she calls them, and drops the magazines and papers, clearing her mind of everything in the least like her usual routine. One in a while she foes to visit a friend, but as a rule she prefers the greater freedom of a hotel. And she comes back to her work a woman refreshed and radiant, thor-Dughly thor-Dughly convinced that her .time and money both have been well spent. Many of us think we can't do things because we haven't tried. Perhaps few 3f us can arrange to pool our holidays ind have to do the best we can with those that come along in the regular tourse. But we ought to give ourselves i real treat once in a while, for there Is no greater tonic in the world than enjoyment. You don't always need to ipend money for it a lot of enjoyment somes as free as sunsets, a child's laugh or a good walk. But it Is better io spend a little money foolishly, or what Beems foolishly, on oneself every now and then, instead of to be forever laving up for that "rainy day" we Jive !n such terror of meeting. You can't beat health, serenity and a growing fund of pleasant memories. Hilde-jarde Hilde-jarde Hawthorne. |