ar older, on the same site. It carries us more than half-way back to
the foundation of Christianity. Dim tales of heathen earls and Norman
kings hang around the villages, and the very floor of the sea beyond
the land is richly laden with stores of half-forgotten memories.

Which of all these things makes these days my holiday?

All of them, perhaps. Present moving life, and long-past history, the
mighty movement of nature and the changes of geologic time: sheer
beauty too and the gaiety of amusements and excursions; do not all
have their place in unwinding us from the tight coils we make for our
working days?

Freedom to take from the world whatever is there of beauty and of
interest--it really hardly matters what or where; freedom enhanced by
sympathy, perhaps, for we seem to need some comrade in our play; so
many days and nights following each other--no matter exactly how
many--for letting ourselves go, and letting the world and all its
power and wonder flow into us; that, whatever be place, time and
conditions, is the making of a holiday.

C

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HEALTHY LIFE ABROAD.

"HYGIE."

_A New Definition of Neurasthenia._

We cull the following definition of neurasthenia from our French
contemporary: Neurasthenia is discouragement of the soul. Being in a
state of discouragement the soul ceases to take care of the body and
allows it to become encumbered with waste products. The body in its
turn becomes so defective that the soul is incapable of repairing the
enfeebled organs and throws the body away into the water or leaves it
somewhere to be crushed or abandons it by some other means.
Neurasthenia may be compared to an indolent me