Show tills this Is the searon beacon of the year when the average city man takes himself to one side and confidentially admits to himself that a vacation what it Is 18 cracked up to be the salaried man who la a accorded an annual holiday all to himself begins to foel feel the old nomadic impulse to go to the woods a as early as june 1 ity by june 30 he he has worked himself to a fever of anticipation and nervousness july deepens and grows torrid then one day somebody fixes the date of his leave of course it Is at least tour four weeks ahead and then begins the long wearying nerve wearing period of existence between him and liberty lie ile cant work he cant think lie ile grows nervous and irritable under tinder the strain by the time vacation comes th tin man la Is needing it to recuperate the wear and tear which its anticipation has cost him As soon as it does begin however thero there comes the haunting fear that he wont spend it right that he wout get the greatest measure of liberty change recreation and pleasure that may be bound up in the limited time the thought haunts him for the first week he has so BO much time to himself that he Is dazed then all at once he be Is panic stricken because there is so little vacation left there Is a ceaseless effort to fill 1111 every lay day full of activities and to keep awake just as many hours as it Is possible for a man to do through it all Is that old ogre work at the end of the vista work comes come again at last and with it conics comes doubt and regret doubt that the greatest possibilities of vacation were attained atta ned and regret that he be had not pursued some other plan it Is when in this mood that he sighs and settles back into gainess ha iness confident that a vacation is a delusion but nevertheless cheered by thi th fact that there la another one twelve months ahead of him |