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THE LIBRARY LOG No. 6. Ten Numbers Per Year Published by the Public Library for the Citizens of Milwaukee June, 1918 Vacation To keep the channels of transportation open for necessary business the government has asked us to relinquish all unneces- sary travel during the period of the war. This will entail some sacrifice of vacation plans and pleasures for many of us, but it is a sacrifice we ought to make willingly for our country and for those who are yielding up their lives to maintain it. There are other ways in which a vacation can be filled with profit and enjoy- ment. If we can not travel in fact we can do it vicariously by means of books. Good works of travel and description exist in abundance which will enable you to visit practically any country in the world while you lounge on the porch, sit by the lake-side, or swing in a hammock under the trees. Let Us Help You to select some of these for y.our recreative reading. This is a good time to familiarize yourself with the places you want to see and to renew your impressions of those you have already seen. What you get out of a trip depends largely upon what you bring to it, so knowledge acquired in advance is an interest bearing deposit here as well as in other departments. "One man goes four thousand miles to see Italy and does not see it, he is so short- sighted," says George William Curtis in his little classic, Prue and I, "Another is so far-sighted that he stays in his room and sees more than Italy."