_Imaginary Vacations_ ONCE a young woman who had very hard work to do day after day and who had come to where she was chronically strained and tired, turned to her mother just as she was starting for work in the morning, and in a voice tense with fatigue and trouble, said:-- "Mother, I cannot stand it.

I cannot stand it.

Unless I can get a vacation long enough at least to catch my breath, I shall break down altogether." "Why don't you take a vacation today ?" asked her mother.

The daughter got a little irritated and snapped out:--- "Why do you say such a foolish thing as that, Mother?
You know as well as I that I could not leave my work to-day." "Don't be cross, dear.

Stop a minute and let me tell you what I mean.