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Show 1 A vacation ie really get fj ting away from the daily Get Away from MoROt- grind, whatever it may be OIIOUS Grind business, the running of a ByE.W.Richds.KaMaGty.Mo. house a routine of social duties or studies. The I i 1 ' housewife who must ran a big cottage all summer long, with the usual troubles connected with managing man-aging servants, preparing for the entertainment of family or company and the daily ordering and preparing of meals, is having little vacation, though the cottage be in the midst of the hills or on the border of the wide ocean. So the butterfly who must still be a butterfly all summer and come up to her reputation of flitting gayly from one of life's sweets to another is finding little real rest and relaxation in her summer vacation. The real vacation is the vacation unusual the vacation in wMch you get away from yourself. For a housewife a trip to a nearby place of interest in the winter j is often more of a relaxation than the family outing in the summer. A week passed in a big city, where she can shop, go to theater, opera and hotels and sightsoe to. her heart's content taking it for granted, of course, that she is from a small town or a snort summer boat trip, when she realizes that she is on the water, away from home and its obligations, probably will rest her more than three months as the mistress of a seaside cottage. For the business man a vacation In the country or at the seaside is generally refreshing. He frets, if he is normal, at having "nothing to do," and doubtless he wonders, either to himself or audibly, how women ever manage to keep themselves busy at home. But nevertheless he rests and returns to work from his enforced idleness refreshed in body and mind. A camping trip is really an ideal vacation. It provides relief from the usual duties both for the society woman and for the active housewife. It provides active work for the men of the family. They must work to live and the work is delightful and invigorating. It is a vacation in itself. Tho vacation of the business woman is a hard one to plan. In the short two weeks generally allotted to her she does not find a stay at a country mountain or seaside hotel very pleasant. The other vacationers, most of them, are staying for the month or the season. By the time she has got over feeling herself a newcomer and is just beginning to make acquaintances she must return to work. A visit to a friend is often pleasant, although, as she has only two weeks out of the fifty-two in which, to follow her own will, she must choose her hostess carefully. A vacation passed amid unpleasant surround-, ing is a vacation wasted. The business woman, if she lives at home, generally unconsciously: takes household cares on her shoulders if she spends the vacation at her own home. She likes the household cares, doubtless; she is tempted to. mend a little and sew a little and make a few desserts and "putter about." Perhaps she enjoys her vacation, but she does not get all the benefit from it that she should if she passes it in this way, for she does not get away from herself. For her greatest refreshment the vacation unusual is essential. ' . '; j |