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Show Vacation. A few weeks of the year in which we throw all thoughts of our cares and troubles behind us and rest, recreate and play, in the true sense of the word, we call our vacation. In order that we may truly, recreate ourselves it is necessary that we have a complete change. Different people need their own peculiar divertisement. Reading or music will answer for some, while others prefer sports, but to no one do the sports appeal as heartily as to the children. For the boys and girls, vacation, the happiest time of all the year, is just beginning. Books are closed with a bang, and possibly will not be opened again until September. The child's only thought is play. He will be happy at play from daylight to dark.. Nature demands this for the child, and at the end of three months of solid play he returns to school refreshed and able to take up his work once again. The students also require the invigorating invig-orating effects' of vacation after a long winter spent in " the dull classroom. They begin, to anticipate the vacation about the first . of January. Visions of 'fishing parties hover through their brains instead of the difficult Cicer.o lesson they are supposed to be translating. trans-lating. ' At last June arrives, and they are free to indulge in all the joyous sports. They go in parties to the glorious' glo-rious' rurai sports. Others hurry to the canyons to. experience for? weeks the delight of "camping out" The remainder remain-der throng the local city resorts, and so they spend their vacation in the very-essence very-essence of delight. Not only the children and students, but their teacher, anticipates and enjoys en-joys her vacation. To her it certainly is a haven of joy. For nine long months she has been toiling patiently with the boys and girls. Her patience has been all but shattered by the stubborn stub-born little freckled-faced youngster or by the fond mother who calls at least once a week to . know why her child cannot be given a "special." By the time spring is here, with these and the humdrum buzz of the schoolroom, her nerves are strung at their highest tension, and she surely ' merits her much-needed rest. How do the teachers spend their vacations? va-cations? Many of them remained at home enjoying their absolute freedom. No one can know a teacher's peculiar sensations in the morning for the first few- days of her vacation. It can hardly be realized that when the clock strikes 7 she does not have to make a grand rush to catch the 7:15 car, but may lie in bed until she is rested. Numbers of the teachers take. trips to the different dif-ferent pleasure resorts of the United States. Often teacher parties are formed form-ed to take these trips, and in this way expenses are reduced and greater enjoyment en-joyment had. A favorite and inexpensive inexpen-sive teacher's trip is to some of the southern California summer resorts. As a usual thing, these places are very ;, , , '" . IJ,u.l;,,.l,..,. -Lu. up . iu, - quiet, and because of this, 'with the low altitude and delightful 6eav. bathr ing, the teacher's worn-out nerves are refreshed, and they return greatly ben- efited. Others renew their strength by. living an out-of-door life part of the summer by "camping out." After the vacation, teachers return to school g'ad to be back once again. The business men and women are others who absolutely require vaca- j tions. Nature calls for this at letist j once a year. If they turn a deaf ear , to nature, she will not fail to do the same to them. First they will become j tired and languid, and if after this ' warning they still persist in working ! their bodies beyond what they are able to do, the body will refuse to work, and they will become total mental ad physical wrecks. These spend their vacations va-cations much as teachers do, some by visiting the various resorts, and others by "camping out." The fishing or hunting trip is what appeals to the business man for his, pleasure. After their rest, they return to work filled with new strength and vigor, and are then able to put four times the energy into their work. But there is a class of people to whom it seems time has forgotten to assign vacations. These are the mothers. They have been busy all winter with the little ones, attending the household duties and the needs of the family besides; but no one ever thinks of mother taking a rest.' What would we do without mother? Who would perform the thousand little duties du-ties that mother does each day? If we would only forget our selfishness and insist on mother taking a vacation, what a world of good it would do! How she would enjoy a few quiet weeks at some delightful country seat with a few well-chosen books and companions! The free country air would work wonders won-ders in her, and when she returned, her tired face would be a most restful one. Let us all see that mother shall have a vacation. Looked at from every point of view, vacation is one of the" most beneficial as well as one of the most enjoyable times of the year. What would we do without ever having a vacation if we must plod along through the whole dull year without the joyful anticipation of ! the time of rest that is not far away? : k. t. m. . : |