Abstract

In the Driftway

In this article the author focuses on the problem of returning to work after a vacation. He says that there are two solutions of this perplexing problem. One is to work fourteen hours a day for forty years with no holiday whatever, after which a kind fate may have provided either rest from all labor in the earth or a competence to end one's days in peace. The other is to persuade some easily gulled person with ample means that one is working when one is merely doing what one likes. The latter is the harder way, but on the whole the author recommends it. There are persons so happy as to have discovered some such system early in life. They roam about the world or stay comfortably at home, according to their inclination, and each month their stipend arrives to keep away the danger of starvation and the necessity of a holiday.