HOW TO SPEND A VACATION.
Your, rest should be recuperative ; it should be recreative, i-.vory muscular exertion uses up a muscular tissue ; every thought and feeling destroys a nerve tissue. Kest repairs what work destroys. Host lays in the tiiel ; work burns it up. If your rest leaves you weary, it is not rest. Whoever wakes up on Monday morning less fresh and vigorous for Monday morning's work has broken God's holy day. Whoever comes back from his vacation fagged-out baa had no vacation. Some men consume more fuel in blowing oft' steam than in working the engine. If you live in the country, go to town; if in town go to the country ; if you live by the sea, seek ttic niQiintcLiiis » if tiinoiiiz fctic mountniris, seek the sea; if nature is your constant companion, commune with books; if you live among books, commune with nature ; if your life is among men, seek solitude ; if it is solitary, seek society ; if you are a constant traveller, stay at home ; if you are a stay-at-home, go on an excursion i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 6578, 16 December 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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