Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-24
THAT BLESSED HAMMOCK.
How One Woman Rested While She IVorke
and Seyer Cot

! How One Woman Rested While She Worked
and Never Got Cross.
! Did you ever try dose of hammock? 1t
is the best medicine that can be found for one
who is ''all tired out, and it has also the add
ed attraction of being very pleasant to take.
After all that is said, nowadays, in regard
to being much in the open air, and for all the
learned doctors recommendation of a remedy
SO detrimental to their future financial pros
poets, fear many of my sisters think them
selves "too busy" to indulge in this inexpen-
sive luxury. But have you ever given this
matter fair trial. realize fully how little
leisure a woman who tries to do her duty in
caring for children and home can spare for a
genuine rest. And yet even a little is better
than no rest at all, for it at least breaks the
otherwise continuous strain on the nervous
system.
You must sit down for your sewing and
mending, So why not betake yourself to your
hammock, conveniently hung in the shade of
the nearest treef When il is possible, five
minutes nap, or few minutes in which you
can at any rate try TO think of nothing but
resting, will be great help in keeping you
in better health Husband and children will
enjoy you when you are bright and strong
much more than when YOU are tired and
well, is not tired sometimes synonymous with
cross or fretfull Suppose you keep for few
weeks list of the critical, complaining or
respondent remarks you make during that
time Even the best of people, we must ac
knowledge, sometimes have such moods.
When did such thoughts find utterance?
When you were feeling bright and fresh,
with no hint of WEAKNESS or headache about
youi Or was not the power behind the
throne" in that case rather some bodily fail
ing!
You could keep your work basket. books
and paper near your hammock on pleasant
DAYS all ready TO take up during the recess in
the open air. And am sure that when the
summer is over you will not regret the hours
spent there.
1t is far better for baby to be enjoying the
green outside world with you than barricad-
ed in the sitting room out of the way of harm
or mischief, she often is.
Change of position, the lying down instead
of standing or sitting, is a rest in itself. and
most helpful when one wishes to gain health
rapidly.
This is not patent medicine 1t is tried
old remedy. than which no much advertised
cure" can show more testimonials of aston
ishing but beneficial results
| have in mind as write friend who had
vainly sought relief from that too prevalent
complaint, nervous prostitution By the adj
vice Of her family physician she took up this
outdoor living, and now it has no more ear
nest advocate than she. Her hammock was
swung almost under her window and for one
entire summer she spent the greatest part OF
every pleasant day there. All her sewing,
mending, reading, writing, mapping and rest
ing were done while sitting or lying in her
hammock under the trees Il thought at first
l couldn't be 50 lazy ii seemed TO me then"
says my friend now. But / gained so rapid
~ and | just wish every tired woman in the
world could try that blessed hammock. p
Jean Halifax in Ladies Home Journal