Show j H. H Science J J 0 of f t. t Holi Holi- Holidaying J 3 i By ANDREW WILSON If Noted Latish Scientist Most Bost ost of us take our period of leisure- leisure time and enjoy it without giving much or any tho thought to the best method of oC employing employing employing em em- the period set apart for bodily re recuperation re- re v If there exists a science of holidaying at all its terms are a sealed scaled book to the bulk of mankind Yet it would be strange indeed if the proper enjoyment of well earned rest formed a topic or condition condition con con- which lies completely outside that reign and domain of law whose influence is so marked in all other affairs connected with our health and well For ex- ex ample the enjoyment of a holiday must depend to a certain extent upon climate and as any anyone one climate cannot suit snit everybody alike we may note in this fact alone the initial stages of a aC C system which would seek seck to insure that each of us selected the resort whose conditions most closely corresponded to his bodily needs Lying altogether outside the popular discussion of ol holidays there is a field where unquestionably unquestionably un un- 1 questionably science has to be appealed to by way of determining the proper pla place e and method of enjoying rest This field is represented by bythe bythe 1 the medical phase of life holiday-life and by the relationship of the doctor doctori i to the cure of disease by climatic conditions There next looms before ua us the question of the most advantageous fashion in which our holiday time may be spent I think one may fairly fair Y sum Bum up this phase of the matter by assuming that the law of contrast r should here prove our most trustworthy guide By this law one onee implies that life lire should be lived in as complete contrast contra t to the ordinary working existence existence as is possible There is great wisdom in such a declara declara- tion It is founded upon the idea justified by all we know Glow of physiological conditions that the rest and invigoration of one set of faculties is largely favored and aided by the employment of or- oth others rs which in an ordinary 4 way lie more or less fallow lallow Your sedentary man tied to his office will benefit most greatly from his walking or his cycling tour from his yachting if he can take a hand handY Y at the r ropes pes from his tennis his boating or other forms in which his ii physical p energy may be used and thus stimulated to renewal Your active I f man on the other hand lland who day by day toils with bone and muscle who travels and moves about in the pursuit of his business stands in a 4 fIere t position For or him the lazy holiday is the prescription of oC ad- ad r ence ce He will impart tone to his muscles by rest and if he enjoys his novel norel or or hi his volume of f adventure and thus captures the thoughts of other men y mss he he be will b benefit by the contrast of of- his leisure so spent to the life he leads in the workaday world r |