Show I ALONG LIFES LIFE'S S TRAIL By THOMAS TI A. A CLARK of Dean ienn of Men glen Uy 1 OX Q CD 1924 Western News pcr Union VACATIONS j hastily girls sirls came young youn THREE I and noisily Into the tire car ns fiS the train move moved out of the station They hud had Just barely escaped being left The vacation vaca vaca- were going Jon tion Uon was over an and they of ot disposed they back to work As their various belongings settled settle bacK hair a n mussed massed up their In their seats musse little more becomingly anti and ma made e discriminating dis dis- discriminating lg criminating use of or their powder ponder puffs purrs fragments of oC conversation began hean to toI float through the tire car cor I 1 burled burle myself myself my my- I sel self In the book I 1 was reading but I found It Impossible not to hear something something some some- of a vacation mingled min thing of a peach b. b In Farrar led bled led with grand opera and at nt tho the Carmen with New Years Year's eve e formal Congress hotel with a n lovely and ancI party parly at nt Northwestern university at the Country with an night all party I club of them I am simply dead one said and I have a pack of back ack work of to hand han in tomorrow The rhe babble conversation ceased shortly and the silence became so great great that 1 I turned to find fincI the cause canse They were asleep their tired pallid palli faces nn and the dark ark rings s under their e eyes es showing all too well what a n lovely restful vacation the they had ha had The Tire man mart who said that It takes the strongest constitution to stand the average trip for the health might have hae ml added e that It takes tales the tire strongest n IDi to stand stanO he ordinary vacation A woman whom I once knew when asked aske If she employed e a n servant girl remarked remarked re re- re- re marked marke that she slime had one but that she sho was Just then doing her own work She hoped hope as ns soon as she was stron strong enough to try one again I I have often felt that it might be a good thing to require young people to pass a n cal eal test to determine whether hether o or 01 not the they are aro strong enough to in Indulge In Inthe Inthe inthe the dissipations of ot a vacation A line of pale sad sad-e sad eyed ed tired and physically out knocked out undergraduates tes who ho como come Into my office after ever every vacation may have had a peach of a time but the they very seldom reveal much of the bloom loom on their return A real vaca- vaca tion ought to be stimulating and restful restful restful rest rest- ful but It oftentimes leaves lea them exhausted ex exhausted ex- ex hausted unprepared for the their r work worl an and worth nothing for days daysi after they get back Instead of ot fin finding themselves themselves them them- sel selves ves eager and rea ready y for forward liar Bard work they come back to rest up There Is no rio more severe test of a aman's amans amans aman's amans aman's mans man's character r than the w way way In ln which he spends the time that Is his Is own nn and the way In which he puts Jn n In the hours or days ays of ot leisure nn and vacation Most of the moral delinquents whom delinquents I know strayed away from the path th of virtue and self-control self first wh when n they had nothing g else to do wl do-wl when do-when they were having ha a vacation J |