Christmas Holidays From Two Points of View

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18279, 23 December 1933, Page 13

Christmas Holidays From Two Points of View

THE Christmas holidays are almost A here —and wc quote two views about holidays for men and women, which although they appeared in Home journals are nevertheless applicable here. "Some people arc making up their minds not to take a holiday this year," writes the medical correspondent of the Times Trade and Engineering Supplement. ‘ ‘ They say that their businesses are doing badly and that tho worry involved in the extra expense would detract from any advantage they could hope to gain. " ‘Why go away from home to worry? One can do that better in a familiar armchair.’

worry at a disadvantage is a worry on tiie way to extinction. The gain, therefore, is solid, tire price paid for it is less than was anticipated. ‘ ‘ Ho who has had his holiday returns in the mood of a stranger. And a stranger often sees more than tho inhabitant who has never wandered

"It sounds good reasoning. But. the weakness of it lies in the fact that going away from home always changes one’s point of view. Going away from home is like leaving one world for another; tho excitement of the new world at once throws our accustomed picture of tho old out of gear.

"We no longer sec our worries as we are wont to see them, and a worry from a new angle is seldom so .terrible' as it seemed to be. ‘"holidays from this point of view represent a flank march which puts the enemy at’, p'disadvantage, and a

this from the point of view of health, and eVeh pleasure. I plead for a holiday that is a real rest and a real change. 1 want to get away from time-tables and train-catching, set rules and routine, and noise and hurry and worry. I want to get up a bit later if I feel like it.

from tho village. Incidentally, he j may see, as the inhabitant cannot,' how difficulties can bo overcome and new enterprises begun.” J “Ideally, the summer holiday for! the bulk of business men and women should contain the elements of rest and chango, ease and comfort, relaxation and repose,” writes a London physician .id the Daily Mail. “Yet st> many people prepare for a hectic fcjxtmght or three weeks, and start to revolutionise their whole; mode of life for the time being in an j entirely unwise direction. I 1 ‘They get up earlier —* Fine thing a wa,lk before .breakfast, my boy!’ — arid go to bed later than usual,* they eat jjpich pvoro ajd much more than usuhl; .hatho long and, often; some stagger through two rounds of golf iff \a broiling spn;'; others play towis and a standstill; a few dance till thbyfr.e dizzy; and .most pntrqjusc the and theatre with paihrui persistency. i * ‘ There’s something wrong with .all j

I "I want to bathe if the water is ! comparatively warm and the sea smooth; I want to change the office ‘1 | desk and its concentrations for a ~~ [deck-chair and its repose; the counter and its calculations for peace and a pipe—l want to laze and loaf. "My plea is for a common-sense;.'; ‘ holiday. Youth may have its fling - —it can afford to get tired out. It has big reserves, is clastic, and recuperates readily. The rest of us are jgenerally weary with a year's work' | and worry. Wie need change from jthe accustomed —another air, pure not polluted; sea breezes instead of fog or fug; a swim and rundown “ , instead of a wash and brush-up; leisurely meals; and something other than bacon and eggs; a band, not a gramophone; a novel and a nap. I "Don’t, burden yourselves with' '.l '.rules and belong to ; 'tse office yffu Enjoy ' you want; _ . i-take easy; flfvUwf. t ime — loal '- | shjs is common sense.