BALANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 19

BALANCE

“tJOLIDAYS, to be beneficial, should be discreet,” says a wise physician. An old piece of advice, maybe, but one that cannot be repeated too often. In life, the ancients advocated the middle way as the safe one. To-day we may perhaps stress the need of balance for a perfect holiday. Our body is like a ship that should ride on an even keel. A list to one side or the other will make it liable to be capsized by sudden squalls. When we vary our life of sedentary labour by a holiday wc should not rush to the other extreme and overfatigue ourselves by violent exercise in the open air. Let us trim the ship as we go, adjust the balance. Let our exercise be gradual, our change from frugal meals to hearty ones be not too sudden. If we have passed several

10nt1... in the shelter of a roof let us not sit in the hot sun for 10 hours at time. If our mind has been employed in work we shall find it more beneficial to ease the strain on our intelligence than to slack around in complete vacuity. The change from town to country or seaside will in itself bring benefit, so long as our organs are allowed to get used to it gradually and are not rushed into a dozen other changes simultaneously. Let us reef our sails. To crowd on canvas may capsize the ship, to furl them will birng us to a standstill.