San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-09-21
WOMAN AND HOME.
DISASTROUS RESULTS OF OVER
WORK AND LACK OF SLEEP.

Hints on Jelly Making-The "Ideaf
Husband-A Cause Of Awkwardness-A
Fathers Mistake-Hints Worth Heed
inr-Numerous Useful Notes and Items.
When the DAYS are long and hot, when the
nights are short and q person Is not cool
enough to sleep until late, there is much dan
GER that the housekeeper will not see to it
that she has enough sleep for the keeping up
of her strength. 1t is, Of course, much the
wiser plan to get up early, and do the heavy
mart of the days work in the cool time OF the
morning, even though one b. 50 sleepy 1t
seems very hard to get to work. However,
this sleepiness soon wears off, and the work
goes easily and we'll at that time of day.
The farmer and his men are at their work
as early as the housekeeper, and 80 are ready
for the early hearty dinner, which must be
prepared over the hot stove After the din
ner is eaten the men folks always give them
selves a half hour or more OF rest, but the
women of the home must, or they think they
must, Immediately clear the table, and 1t Is
seldom much less hot in the dish water than
over the stove. When the dinner work is
done. IL no extra homework calls, there is
always the mending basket, or If nothing be
pressing the average woman beg Nto Sc"
carpet rags or piece quilt.
We see much in thepapers nowadays about
the fact that insanity is very prevalent
among women of farmers homes. Tbs Is
accounted for in many ways-"oVerwork,
"monotonous existence" and OCCASIONALLY
some wise men say "too little sleep" II
women who have 70 work for farm hands, II
women who carry heavy housework year
in and year out, would deliberately make up
their minds to take a midday nap, they
would find in the long run that they could
do more and better work, and come ont OF
hard work with better nerve. than If they
tried to work every minute of the day. The
few minutes of daylight sleep wi come
back laden with manifold riches OF strength.
It is useless for woman to say she cannot
sleep in daytime. If any one will lie down
quietly and close the eyes one-half bour per
day, at the same time every day for two
weeks. there will be no tTouble about not
being able to sleep in daytime. For many
people the half hour per day is sufficient rest
to help keep good strength all day. The
sleep at night will be all the better for 1t,
because the nerves will not be SO worn and
tired as to make one restless.
No one can make rule that will apply to
every one as to the proper amount of sleep
necessary; but one thing IS sure-any woman
had better err ON the side of too much sleep
than run any risk as to wearing out her
nerves, which work on too little sleep is sure
to do. Children, too, are sometimes abused
by those who love them best by being obliged
to get ND to breakfast whether their sleep is
tout" OF not. They will wake up of their
own accord when they have slept enough.
We women do boo much work in many
directions. We sew too much, We Some of
us) scrub too much, and many one cleans
for hard hours at a time when a very few
minutes of retaking would have prevented
the necessity for the cleaning. If we would
take a nap in the midst OF the day, and by
forethought save the time from unnecessary
work, we might live longer TO do work.
One frail, delicate woman, who has been
able all her life to keep her home pleasant
and her FIVE children happy, thinks her sue
cess all due to the fact that she sleeps twenty
minutes every afternoon, her nerves are
rested, her body and mind refreshed, and
her strength renewed, 80 that she does not
become overtired before night She began
the habit when she first began to keep house,
and learned TO always take the time for it
because ID was economy in the end.
We hear much about woman's rights, but
no woman uses all the rights that are &C.
corded her unless she makes of herself physi-
cally the strong woman she has right to
be, then increases her mental strength to
what it should and can become. When the
majority of women do this there will be no
question as to the status she viii have in the
home, the neighborhood and the nation
Mrs. Kedzie in Philadelphia Press.
Hints on Jelly Making.
Failures in jelly making are due to several