CHAPTER VI 

 FARMERS' VACATIONS* 



I AM impressed by the growing popular- 

 ity of outing travel among people of the 

 merely well-to-do classes. To the ordinary 

 man on business errands bent, car travel 

 would be a burden were it not for the good 

 humor vacation spirit of his fellow travel- 

 ers. In their relaxation there is an infec- 

 tious cheer that speaks of the wholesome 

 effect of change and of the added zest with 

 which the day's work will be taken up again 

 when the outing is ended. 



This habit of spending some small part 

 of each year in looking about is a good one. 

 The tension of modern American life de- 

 mands that both mind and body have peri- 

 ods of relaxation, such as nothing but 

 change can give must have them or in 

 time suffer the nervous breakdown which is 

 the curse of our age. 



* Reprinted, by permission, from The Twentieth Century 

 Farmer. 



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