Holidays and how to use them / by Charles D. Musgrove.

  • Musgrove, Charles D. (Charles David)
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Holidays and how to use them / by Charles D. Musgrove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    waste-paper baskets in the house are filled to overflowing. Perhaps the most important holiday of all, and the one that receives least consideration as a rule, is the weekly half-holiday. Often it is sadly Weekly curtailed owing to a lack of preparation half-holiday, and foresight. The usual plan is to wait and see what the weather is going to be. It turns out fine and the roads clean and dry, just the day for a cycle ride. So the bicycles are brought forth, and of course the tyres are down. One of them is found to have a puncture, and much valuable time is lost in repairing it. So eager is the party to make a start, that the unfortunate cycle is taken out before the patch has set. That means trouble and delay during the ride. “ Just my luck,” its owner remarks in lugubrious tones. Altogether the afternoon is not an unqualified success. Others suggest that the day was made for a good walk. The question arises as to where they shall go. Various ones are mooted, walks in the neighbourhood, familiar paths that have been trodden almost ad nauseam. “ Why not take the train somewhere, and see something fresh ? ” Various places of interest are suggested, and the time table is called for. It is missing, of course. Time tables always are when they are wanted. At last, after a prolonged search and much recrimination on the part of everybody as to why