Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-27
THEY OUGHT TO KNOW
How Women Can Save Their Strength
and Prevent III Health.
NEED OF FREQUENT REST
Written for TIE EVENING SrAn.

Written for TIE EVENING srAn.
n ETTEnS with which readers have IA
"a vored me lately have been more than
n usually interesting in their touches OF
~ character and experience. They come
from all grades Of society. Here are
letters in angular fine ladys writing, so blind it
racks the nerves to decpher it; letters with
monogram in gold and colo-s or verified crests;
girls letters in handwriting and wording Sc
much alike am tempted to think they all come
II ON the same correspondent if it were not for
the post marks, % widely apart. Here are let
| ters from young women who spend their days
behind counters or in offices, but are none the
less anxious to make good impression by fig
ure and complexion, and letters from lively,
sensible women with households and cares,
whose epistles are best worth reading gener-
ally OF all that come, and those which tell of
biting experience ard sngle-handed struggle
which get read when other pages are put aside
| to wait their time.
FROM MOTHER OF TEN.
Violet, as woman forty-six years old an d
the mother Of ten children, as she writes shall
have the place OF consideration, not that there
is q particle of credit more in having ten
children than in having one, but woman who
has had that amount of trouble needs courtesy
and care. Violet .'still pays great regard to
personal APT sarance aud cleanliness" in which
she is a model to some Of the forty and over,
but she desires advice on massage for wrinkles.
We may az we'll at tbs same time consider
daisy" who wants similar advice from another
point OF view. Daisy knew nothing OF work,
having always boarded until four years ago she
married d farmer, and now Of course finds
plenty to do. If she can Just get the hoilows in
her cheeks filed up aid her complexion cleared
she vii. be happier She has tried the early to
bed and early to rise plan for the last four
years, getting up every morning ut haf-past
four, and is inclined te think it humbug. for
her complexion Is no better. Perhaps il she got
up for pleasure and not to work it would maA
some difference"
THE GOSPEL OF REST.
Now Daisy and Violet both want to heed the
gospel OF rest to erase wrinkles and Gil hollows
il the cheeks. hope that precious woman
never to * the notion Of getting up at half past
four mornings from anything ever wrote, for
never cOunselled early rising and working
hard all day for carsworn wives and mothers
with young children.
Men and women have to learn yet that the
Almighty never sent them into the world to
work themselves into wrinkles and emacia-
ton, whether by child bearing. farming or
housekeeping. A man. rich or not rich, would
be ashamed TO have his working team or car
riags horses in use As thin and overweight as
his wife, or to TAI them as hardly in proportion
| TO their strength ~ the woman who bears his
name.
ThOro is absolutely no adjustment Of burdens
to the strength or capacity OF women. Slen-
der, unused to work, delicate in every way,
te2derly'cared for before marriage, they find
| themselves essig ned to the duties Of a servant
maid, Of mother hood and the head of family,
| and expected to keep up with the imposi ton
| somehow, with scant indulgence till the break
| down. There is absolute inhumanity in the
way delicately reared girls are flung into mar
| riage and the hardships of small. fortunes to-
gether. A mother who rears her daughters for
such a lot should see that they are az tough as
whipcords and trained to work from childhood
as they are now trained for the piano. Mar
| riage and the care Of family in oil ordinary
circumstances means labor OF the hardest kind
for mind and body, and if girls knew really
its demands hey would look on proposal Of
marriage very much as an invitation to enter
| the penitentiary for term OF years.
And these overweight women want to have
the wrinkles taken ont Of their faces ''while
| thoy wait"
TALES WRINKLES TELL
To repair such wrinkles they must remodel
their lives. Neither cosmetics nor massage will
| do good much longe. than the direct applica-
ton is kept up unless they obey the first great
| u6buTe-FcSt
cease getting up at haif-past four to work un-
less she takes the early day to get the main
part OF the housekeeping over and is ready to
| sit down by 8 or Or to lie down for two hours.
Every one OF the early wrinkles on these
| women's faces, the dropping corners of the
mouth, the curve each side the uose, the line
etched from the cheeks under the chin, has its
CONNECTION with spinal strain displacement or
| nervous injury-perhaps all three.
For Daisy, toiling through her housekeeping
with her baby. since whose coming she has
never been well, the first prescription is twelve
hours rest, If not sleep, in bed or ON q lounge
| on the piazza out Of each twenty-four II her
| achievements are limited to getting the family
something to eat three times day for awhile
this rest must be taken or the family will soon
have &c get their own dinners, sans wife and
houssksepeJ broken down.
BOYS FOB FARM HoUsEwoRK.
Why, In the name Of common sense, when
capable help 10 almost unknown in farming
communities and the mothers are worked to
insanity, should not boys be hired to do the
heavier part Of the work, as the indoor man
does in cities? Boys serve az cooks on yachts
and in coast hotels, where they do all the cook
ing except pastry and desserts, wash floors and
table linen and towels ct pinch.
have seen a. good laundrymen, American
born, Is eyer ironed Shirts and there 10 comfort
in having help with muscle to call ON.
Mr.. Daisy should send ono Of his youngest
workers up to the house to wait on Mrs. Daisy
three hours or half day. il not all the time.
and il she cannot cajole that youth into more
housek eeping than he ever dreamed OF she ia
not the woman she ought to be- These big
boys, just In their teens who can't find work
in shops, are not unwilling to take Day for a
job Ut indoor work-they don't like to call it
housekeeping but given the name, they don't
mind the work. The suggestion 10 left to bear
thinking on.
WHAT NRs DAISY MUST KAT
Help or no help, Daisy needs TO keep beef
broth, spiced Cruel or rich Juice of stswed fruit
il not fresh juice, ready, and take half cup
full or more every hour or two. This will keep
Oh the dragging faintness which leaves one
too tired 70 cat ct dinner and will do a. much
a. anything to all the hollows in her cheeks
A few sips, taken often, without burdeninr the
digestion, will keep the strength and flesh bet
ter than full meals and will leave one more an
petite for the table.
Too many busy women, teachers and house.
keepers, know what IL 10 to sit down to meals
''too tired to eat" II 10 injurious to eat
solid meal in such state The nervous force
has been diverted from the stomach and food
II worse than useless.
II il far better TO battle the face, top Of the
head and back Of the neck in cool water, with
dash Of lavender after il, the best nervous
refrsshmeLt possible, and lie down ten minutes
or half an hour, before taking the CUP Of beef
juice with an egg stirred in Just a. the broth il
taken from the hre, and Q toasted graham
cracker or some such fare will do more to sus-
tain . woman working on her nerves than
hsartier fare, Tor which she feels NO inclins-
ion.
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