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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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oods,who can find no inspiration in the broadamphitheater of nature, has a kink in hismental makeup. If you dont know how to loaf you cantknow how to la))or. There is no rest likethat which is earned after work well done,and there is no work better done thanthat which is enjoyed after a little idleness THE BALTLMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE 35 The man who hves close to the soilrequires a change of scene merely as amatter of education. His business ismanual labor and his avocation is moreor less intellectual. He devotes his even-ings to the improvement of his mind, notbecause he is a wiser man than his citycousin, but generally for the reason thathe has nothing else to do. He is not But you fellows who toil in over-popu-lated canyons, dine in over-decoratedcaravansaries and sleep in under-venti-lated caves, need a change. Youvegot to get an occasional glimpse ofnormal life to keep 3^ou from acquir-ing an abnormal point of view, thenatural sequence of 3our artificial modeof existence.
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By all means take your vacation. The more you are missed at the office the warmer will beyour welcome on your return tempted by a thousand divertisements.Once in awhile he may invest in a goldbrick, but he doesnt mistake excitementfor amusement—the species of greengoods that is handed out to half a millioncity wise guys, on little old Broadway,seven nights in the week all the yeararound. The man who can derive both profitand pleasure from the exercise of his men-tal and physical/unctions needs no recre-ation; he is developing the best humaninstincts: thought and work. When I first came back here I couldntsleep at night because I found the still-ness oppressive. I missed the nocturnalnoises of a big metropolis. I was like thecity-broke horse that will walk up to asnorting motor-car and bite a piece outof the tire without batting an eye, yetwho would throw a fit at the falliiig of aleaf in a peaceful country lane. And nowthe quiet of this bucolic burg has sochanged me that the trolley

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