What are you going to do with the vacation you are anticipating or the vacation you are now having, perchance?
How to spend one’s annual week-off is often a perplexing problem. Some there be who think all the relaxation they need is simply to stop whatever they may be doing, rest their minds of the worry of their daily grind and their energies of their monotonous channels of expenditure. Others want to go off to the mountains and lounge around or sit on the sands of the sea like alligators, merely whiling along the time. And some choose their automobiles to brisk through the country on a tour of sight-seeing.
It is difficult to select any given program for a vacation, but no matter what one may be tied to, it is always a profitable plan to utilize the annual vacation for self-improvement of some sort. Vacations are not merely relaxation, mental or physical. They don’t amount to much if that’s all they are. To be effectual, they ought to fill up what has been taken out by the usual grind of one’s work, either by reading or by recreation of a healthful sort or by stimulating exercise and activity. Loafing around is without avail. It comes nearer hurting than helping. The body cries out for that which the daily job has been extorting from it and the mind insists on being replenished after the drain of the day. A vacation isn’t worth a cent that runs into sheer idleness.
From the editorial page of The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, July 24, 1921
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Miss Howerton to Spend Vacation in Virginia
Miss Anna Howerton, superintendent of the Presbyterian Hospital, will leave August 1 for Lexington, Va., her home, where she will spend her vacation. Miss Howerton is the daughter of Rev. Dr. J.R. Howerton and Mrs. Howerton, the former, for a number of years the beloved pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this city. Miss Howerton assumed her official position with the hospital a few months ago. She is esteemed by the medical profession for her executive and professional ability, and personally she commands hundreds of friends in the city.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, July 24, 1921
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