Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — Recreation, as Well as Relaxation, Is Necessary to the Happiness of All [ARTICLE]

Recreation, as Well as Relaxation, Is Necessary to the Happiness of All

We need breathing spells in life’s bigger issues just as we need them in out routine work. No one may work continuously without some period of relaxation, and in the same way no one may bear up under heavy responsibilities uriiess he is able at times to forget them, observes the Charleston News and Courier. That is why recreation as well as relaxation is necessary to the happiness of. us all. There is something within us, something that calls to us, as it were, in- no uncertain tones to lay down our problems occasionally and try to divert our minds from them. If we are forced to live with those big crushing responsibilities. that weigh us down at every turn, that are never fat away from us, that keep step with us in our 1 daily walk, we shall miss much of the better, brighter part of life. Every one has the right to live his own life in theway which he thinks will be best for him, and it is a hard blow qf fate which robs him of that right. Yet this is donte more often in life than we realize, and one of the worst of our disappqintments is to be.forced to 'render The privilege of controlling our own lives as far as it is in our human power to do so. Because certain responsibilities are forced upon us we are often compelled to abandon the road 'which stretches so invitingly ahead and to ' seek another , jpath, rough and hard to walk upon, full of obstacles and barren of those things that perhaps have meant the very wine of life to us.