Excerpt from Catskill Mountains
In Summer Time,
"The Statesman, Lawyer, Merchant, man of Trade.
Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
Where all his long anxieties forgot
Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot.
Or recollected only to gild o'er
And add a smile to what was sweet before,
He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
Lay his old age upon the lap of Ease,
Improve the remnant of his wasted span,
And having lived a Trifler, die a man."
The wisdom and value of the annual summer rest is no longer a subject of question requiring any extended demonstration. Originating in a mere social fad, to gratify the demands of wealth, or satisfy the insatiable longings of those who rarely become tired, it has now become a hygienic necessity in the physicial and mental economy of man which we can ignore only at our peril. If earlier generations knew nothing of summer vacations, or found little need of them, it was because they took more time to live and labored more deliberately and leisurely than we do to-day. They took life with all its duties and enjoyments by the day, while we take it by contract, as it were. The pressure of individual effort in the frail arteries of human existence is far greater now than it was then. As the human family increases in number, strife and competition grow more active. Men think faster and work harder, and women are tempted by the alluring results of larger and more congenial effort. All this demands careful conservation of vital force and greater economy and discretion in the management of this complex and wondrous human organism so largely in our control. Like a steam engine and boiler which, in addition to the regular supply of water and fuel, must have periodical repairs, so with man. An abundant supply of food and clothes must be supplemented by days and weeks of relaxation and recreation in which to regain lost strength and vitality.
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