Show ABOUT VACATIONS STEPHEN LEACOCK in an interesting te article in the outlook on tho the art of taking a vacation says in part it Is if not given to every man to be able to take a vacation e ten oven it if lie tries As with all other things there are who can do it and those who cant one man spends in vain a thousand dollars and travels in vain a thousand miles in an attempt to encompass a vacation another man can call put on an old pair of trousers and a battered felt hat arid and retire to his back yard with a hoe and lo 10 in five minutes the outer world is blotted out the sounds ot of tho the street are hushed and his mind is as far away as it if he were among the hanging gardens of 0 babylon or the enchanted islands ot of the south seas there is an art in it either one can do it or one cannot and in this work broken world most ot of us have long s since in ce lost the key when we try to take a holiday we ire go so busily about it that ve ko merely substitute one kind ot of work tor for another |