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Show CARD ROOM NO PLACE TO SPEND VACATION When Mr. Mann of Anytown arrived with the Mrs. and youngsters at the vacation resort there sat the usual assortment as-sortment of fat gentlemen playing piiiochle and uncomfortably-garbed women playing bridge or inuh-jongg. "What the dickens do they go on a vacation for?" Mr. Mann queried ot Mrs. Mann. And yet the pinochle-bridge scene may be found at countless thousands of resorts. Grown men and women go on vacations and do little more than play cards or similarly dodgn boredom, says the Cincinnati Post. These people could well take lessons les-sons from their children, who use this opportunity to let loose pent-up suppressions sup-pressions of the year and run about shouting and playing. Of course, every fat-pannched gent can't play Indian or tag, but he can learn the lesson of letting hLs mind get into healthful paths, lie can get away from the hotel steps and hike along tree-covered trails, or across sweet-smelling country meadows. There are a thousand things he enn do that would reduce his girth and put him In far better condition when the vacation ends that Is, unless ha Is an invalid. |