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Show HJ i Most of us take our period of leisuro- time, and enjoy it, without giving much QriSarirn nr n".v t'10"' "lc ',M' uielhod of em- JHicllV ploying the period set apart for bodily re- q ctipcratiou. If there exists a science of - holidaying at all, its terms are a sealed JnlOll" book to the hulk of mankind. Yet it would B rlTiinci fi'ra,,Kl! imli'i'il 'f tliu proper enjoyment M.ia.jr f, ()r wl,HiuriL., ri.st formed a topic or cori- HJ dition which lies completely outside that Dy ANDREW WILSON, reign and domain of law whose influence HJ Noud cmiiih Scicniiiu is so marked in all other affairs connected Hj 1 with our health and well-being. Vor ex- ample, the enjoyment of a holiday must depend to a certain extent upon climate, and, as any one climate cannot 1 suit everybody alike, we may note in this fact alonu the initial stages of a Bystcm which would seek to insure Hint each of us selected the resort whose 1 conditions most closely corresponded to his bodily needs, hying altogether outside the popular discussion of holidays, there is a Held where un- questionably science lias to be appealed to by way of determining the proper place and method of enjoying rest. This field is represented by H the medical phasu of Holiday-life, and by the relationship of the doctor HJ to the cure of diseaso by climatic conditions. 1 There next looms before us the question of the most advantageous H fashion in which our holiday time mny be spent. I think one may fairly H sum up this phase of the matter by assuming that the law of contrast should here prove our most trustworthy guide. By this law one implies H that the holiday life should be lived in as complete contrast to the ordinary working existence as is possible. Thcro is great wisdom in such a declara-H declara-H tion. It is founded upon the idea, justified by all we know of physiological H conditions, that the rest and invigoration of one set of faculties is largely H favored and aided by tho employment of others, which, in an ordinary H way, lie more or less fallow. H Your sedentary man, tied to his office, will benefit most greatly from H his walking or his cycling tour, from his yachting if he can take a hand H at tho ropes, from his tenuis, his boating, or other forms in which his H physical energy may be used and thus stimulated to renewal. Your active H man, on the other hand, who day by day toils with bone and muscle, H who travels and moves about in the pursuit of his business, stands in a H different position. For him, the lazy holiday is tho prescription of sci- H encc. He will impart tone to his muscles by rest, and if he enjoys his novel H or his volume of adventure, and thus captures thu thoughts of other men, H he will benefit by the contrast of his leisure so spent to the life he leads H in the workaday world. |