The Independent . —but nobodyis less likely to get one. A vacation ? How nice that would b-!How I wish I might have one—just once—before I die. I am getting old now, andmy family of eight children are growingup and out from under my feet, leavingme tired and weary and worn; and I dowish—just once—I might have a vaca-tion, to see how it would feel. Sometimes I am fairly haunted andtantalized with a vision—ever unrealizedand unfulfilled: a vision that has to dowith long, hot summer months; that someday, sometime somewhere, I may go outou a screened-in, vine-covered porch; liedown at full length
The Independent . —but nobodyis less likely to get one. A vacation ? How nice that would b-!How I wish I might have one—just once—before I die. I am getting old now, andmy family of eight children are growingup and out from under my feet, leavingme tired and weary and worn; and I dowish—just once—I might have a vaca-tion, to see how it would feel. Sometimes I am fairly haunted andtantalized with a vision—ever unrealizedand unfulfilled: a vision that has to dowith long, hot summer months; that someday, sometime somewhere, I may go outou a screened-in, vine-covered porch; liedown at full length in a comfortable ham-mock ; close my weary eyes in peace, foldmy tired, empty hands, and rest—and rest—and rest—and rest! Not on my own porch—no. The visionsays it shall be far away from home, hus-band and children, neighbors and friends,ever-lasting and never-ending company,church, club, society, town, yes, I love them all, but I just wouldlike a vacation. Is it incomprehensible to. you of the East that a tired mothershould not have a period of relaxationand recreation? Well, perhaps, now thatthe babies are older, I might get away fora week or two, but, you see, two weeksdoes not spell vacation to one who haspioneered out on the Dakota frontier forover thirty years. By the time one had worked harderpreparing for the trip, and then returnedto disorder and accumulated work I thinkI would prefer to go without the twoweeks change. Yes, I think I wouldwant at least six months, or a year—thatmight pay. after the thirty years of wait-ing, six blest months of surcease fromwork—domestic, religious, social, sewing, mending, darning, patching;no cooking, baking, boiling, brewing; nocompany for weeks, no entertaining or be-ing entertained; no committees, churchwork, clubs, boards, societies; no husbandand his wants; no children and theirwants; no friends and neighbors and theirrequirements; and last but not least, no
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