The Timaru Herald. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. THE HOLIDAY FEELING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14389, 3 January 1911, Page 4

The Timaru Herald. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911. THE HOLIDAY FEELING.

The holiday feelings, at* present in the air, and for weeks to come a great many, people ha r Ve just,returned from; or are impatiently their *nnuaV period o£ release from .toil Will have resentful feelings for the " dull drudgery ot 'the disk's dead'wood'"-and all that binds.' down intth'i "freer rejoicinff spirit." Though the work' are shorter, and single" dfcyt of holiday more fredUen>.in New Zealand than in. older .countries, the majority of people an quite ready, when summer calls them, to take a longer recreation, either in strange streets of cities Or under hanging mountains, ' Or by the fall of fountains, according as their preferences dictate. Though it is desirable and wise that a man should take pleasure from his work, and not be always seeking for escape from it, there are times where the necessity for change and leisure is imperatiye, and he is made to feel that living is much , more than working. He is then disposed to echo the sentiment of Elia, who urged that " that is the only true time, which a man can properly call his own, that which he has all to himself," the r<jst, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his. .... A man can never have too much time to himself , nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I should christen him ' Nothing-To-Do '; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as , he is operative. I am altogether ; for the life contemplative. Will ; no kindly earthquake 6omo and J swallow up those accursed cottonmills? Take me that lumber of ; a desk there, and bowl it down [ As low as to tho fionds." Whether he will seek rest and : quiet in the country, or variety in the busy ways of men, must liepend upon the individual character of the holiday-maker. If we were altogether wise, we should nil of us take iust sufficient holiday each day to revive the jaded nerves and brain, fretted with the day's work, and not .dsnejud entirely an A ttftttlh's SL

fortnight's recreation to reeupef* ate down by a year's ftccuimilawd ejects of loll* Especially is that course liable to ' fail of its effect, when tlie tocraation chosen is jfnore 'etrettpous than work.. llut H often Tmppeim that the uinn vrho workri" hard feel* it almost a necessity of his being that he should play in tbn same' way, and to those who find themselves 5n this position t att English paper offer* some advice. It 1* now,, it say*, generally accepted that those who take M adtiro holiday as a euro for otwrf'' work shall take a period of !«*', in the. mountain*. QjtMrWifcft the cure has no chanos of tafcanjr •** ' foot. «'We cannot all K* ttj> into the mountain** but #• Oan all ascend to our badfooau nad tomain there for • shorter «Jr toftum time until w* am ©lured »f latiWe . and irritation* M»d the of our holiday hat a chance «l being L< seen in a sound mind as well Tas a : sound body. It is hijrh tit** that , the laws of action and reaction \ were more tfeiieraUjf Understood. There would" be' <ifw«r '*ow*/ caught and fewer tempers wHf every holiday, had twentyrfoiii', hours in bed for its We are afraid that it the MNteisity for this extreme,precaution were generally admitt**. ittier? would'be fewer holidays, pat it js ~ at least advisable that the ifetttrn,' 1 from holiday-making ' back Ito. ' work shouldnpt be made too VlO-'' lent and abrupt.; Aftw.iiL; the ;, ! chief benefit of OXXlfiMioniVUinxperienced when \lhe refrelhed . I brain and spirit,4kn>'reeuMe ytiihu, joy' and, meuoed to' sVem the AW| task. : were wouldVeTUo^ii/woft^^