Judge — August 1933 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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Judge What to Do While Planning a Vacation Trip | Gans around your home or office with weary eyes, feel tired and run-down and decide to start planning your vacation trip. Promptly feel muc’ better. With a burst of energy, grab your hat and coat and dash out to make 1 tour of the travel and ticket offices. Spend a few feverish hours in an atmos- words and pictured Return to your home full of literature phere of honeyed scenic grandeur. or office with arms ind head awhirl. Virtuously decide that you must not let your vacation trip monopolize your attention, and try to put your mind back on your every-day duties. Find that mind has a strongly developed tendency to wander. Catch yourself several times in the act of day-dream- g and gazing glassily out of the win- Declare that you must get a grip yourself. Reassure yourseli with the mental statement that there is really plenty of time yet to make up your nd about your vacation trip. Bury the travel literature in the bottom of a ep drawer and plunge into your work. After five minutes, conclude that it is no use. Lay your work aside, dig up the travel literature and with a happy sigh settle down to the pleasant chore of examining it thoroughly, Revel for hours in an admiring examination of ex- your dow, “TI promised the wife I'd keep my eye on them!” cellent phrases. photographs and well-turned Come to, at last, and confess that you are getting nowhere on the job of deciding where to go. Confess that you would like to go everywhere, Point out to yourself the impracticability of this. Decide to discuss the matter wi your family and friends. Feel that you are acting very sensibly. Become aware that the ideas of your “T don't know—I feel just like someone had given me Radio City. 20 friends, and particularly of your family, are all at variance with each other. Also that while some members of your family and some of your friends a Western vacation trip, none of them agree as to the place to go. Notice a simi disagreement among those who vor foreign travel and other vacations I the word get around that you are thinking about a vacation trip. Discover that you alone, among your family and re the only o who has not a well-defined idea as to the kind of trip to take. Become: alarmed as your waking hours are more and more completely occupied with lis- tening to vigorous arguments on the subject of your ‘ation. friends, Be unable to get the problem off your mind. Find to your alarm that you are lying awake at night thinking about it 1 to keep the pet descriptive phrases of your relatives, friends, business as- sociates and travel agents from running constantly through your mind. Begin to have a few fears for your sanit Have a happy idea. Announce firmly to all that you are not going to take a vacation this year. Mark how prompt- ly they lose interest in you. Know the blessing of eful days and restful nights. Surreptitiously make up your own mind as to where you will go. Con- clude all arrangements in deepest secrecy. Indulge in a little self-con- gratulation for your cleverness, and blissfully look forward to the day of your departure. —Jonn C. Emery. comicbooks.com