RASHLY PLANNED HOLIDAYS. 
arrangements at all, he represented he could not be 
always watching, he must eat sometiraes, and he 
must sleep a little, ‘ only a very Itttle, and it wm 
very little he slept in master’s service, so little that 
he had become quite thin, just look,” and he 
stretched out his bare arm. But we are obdurate. 
“Well ; well, whoever breaks into our bungalow, 
will be a fool for his pains. Boy what is there to 
steal?” “Why,” says the boy, “all master’s things. 
The blue finger glass, the tea-cup full of sugar, the 
cracked water goglet, and tumbler, and — and,” here 
the boy became puzzled, for even he could ‘^not 
conceive it probable for any one to steal a table, a 
chair, and a couch, or a bed, and there was nothing 
else. 
Now we by no means intend to depreciate, or hold in 
email esteem, holidaj^s. They are not only needful, but 
necessary, but we do insist that some method and 
system is' advisable, some arrangement, before wildly 
plunging off for a holiday trip. These planters who 
are resident in a cool climate, we thinli, we have per- 
sonally experienced it — would be benefited by a tem- 
porary trip to a warm one and sea air, where they would 
have a complete change of air, life, habits, food, a 
change of everything. Where is the use of wearing 
oneself out scampering about the coffee estates 
and coming home from your holidays quite used 
up, and worse than if you had no holiday at all ? 
True, you see other methods and systems in yoiir calling, 
hear the opinions and experiences of others, all which is 
very necessary, but it is neither necessary nor expe- 
dient to spend the whole of your holidays at this sort 
of thing, which would make it no holiday time at 
all. It is too much the case, wherever the planter 
goes, all the talk is “shop” — coffee, coolies, crops, until 
the old planter almost mechanically lapses into an 
old pulper, and can talk about nothing else, at all 
events cares about talking of nothing else. There can 
be no doubt a change for a few weeks, from a cold wet 
climate to a hot dry one, is very beneficial, and also, 
on returning to the cold one, you also receive increased 
benefit from it. On the other hand, those who arc 
resident in low warm districts, on the same reason- 
ing, per contra^ should visit a cold climate, which 
they can always have, at Nuwara Eliya one of it# 
greatest benefits which it offers to the planting visitor 
is that there is no coffee there.* Here you have a 
change : actually no coffee to be seen, and if you take 
— ^ . ^ 
* But plenty of tea and cinchona, while coffee is no 
far off. — E d. 
