Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 297, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 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 unless 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 oar minds from them. If we are forced to live with those big crushing ties, that weigh us down at every turn that are never far away from us, tha keep step with us in our daily walk we shall miss much of the better brighter part of life. Every one hat the right to live his own life in th< way which he thinks will be best foi him, and it is a hard blow of fat* which robs him of that right. Yet thh is done more often in life than wt realize, and one of the worst of oui disappointments is to be forced to sur render the privilege of controlling oui own lives as far as it is in our humar power to do so. Because certain re sponsibilities are forced upon us w< are often compelled to abandon th< road which stretches so invitingly ahead and to seek another path rougluand hard to walk upon, full o? obstacles and barren of those thing! that perhaps have meant the very win< of life to us.