Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-10-20

resolved 10 try your method. not however,
until health and strength were failing and
the care of two children made me nervous
and fanciful Now. for more than year
IL have thrown open my windows, exposed
bedding and room to q current of pure
air. and then put on over my morning
dress little suit Of waterproof; for each
child I made simple ulster. which COW
cred the plain or soiled dress underneath.
/ Thus arrayed we went out for one hour,
no more and no less. The good has been
beyond estimate; even my husband re-
creased strength"
Suppose some one should call. and
afterward represent you as an untidy
housekeeper ?"
Il am wiser now, / know that the un-
tidy women are those who leave things
entirely undone, or badly done. not those
who consider health first and take the re-
mainder of that day for things of less
moment Hundreds of people make up
their beds without airing them at all. or
only for a few moments; any good physi
clan will tell you that is untidy."
/ Our friend is fresh and blooming once
more; she has exchanged treadmill ex-
istence for one Of variety, and the fret and
worry which was creeping into her face
has passed away.
i The more duties woman has to per-
form the more need has she for uniform
/ good temper, and strong, healthy nerves.
| These she can never have if her days and
nights are spent within four walls. with
little to cheer and much to wear out the
vital forces.
! If 1T be true that all have a certain
amount of vitality, is it not worse than
folly to expend any portion Of it in over
nice duties which give mere animal graft
fication. Take for instance the washing
of clothes. How many women fret fol
fear it might storm on Monday. as if the
salvation of the family depended on the
restoration of its dirty linen on certain
day I?
| As a rule it is we'll to take things a:
easy as possible, but some are so consti
! tuted that restlessness is their portion
/ Some women are miserable when idle
| even when rest is necessary. This is &
morbid condition. and quite as repreheDsi
BILE as the lazness which affiicts a few un
fortunate women who have nothing to do
When to rest, how to rest, and where t.
4 Tcst. tACn iuust uCttl uitiC iOi
but all know that nature rebels unless true
and complete rest is taken during som'
portion of each day. When this IS done
aud women learn that business is not neat
ness. and that fretfulness is deadly fo'
! to beauty, our women will not fade IL
their youth or look careworn and anxious
as hundreds now do. These considera
tons do not disagree with the Statement
that "too many women are overworked.'
This painful fact is ever present, and We
large numbers needlessly oyerwork them
selves. As coarse but worthy old woman
once said. .Some housekeepers are 81
pizen nice they neither take any comtor
themselves or let any one else.' These
"pizen nice" people are sometimes foun6
among the other sex, and the faculty thev
possess for annoying and wearying al
who are associated with them surpasse
belief, except by those who have expert
enced it. Husbands who would not for
moment tolerate any interference by thei
wives in their business concerns. bat NEE
all suggestions on such subjects with
cOntemptuous "Pshaw, my dear, mine
your needle and your kitchen. and leav,
me to do the actual fighting in the battl'
of life''-are often the most active in the
interference in the sphere of the house
keepers duties. Such men are response
BILE for the faded looks of their wives ant
daughters; but fortunately they are few
in number. and even they well know tina
a women who is cheerful and bright de
ponds largely on nature for assistance
The day is not far distant, we trust, whel
American women will be not only tn,
most beautiful, but the freshest and wises
in the werld. Then foreigners can NJ
longer point to them and say. ''Ver,
charming. very pretty. but, like the glor,
of the morning. they fade quickly
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