The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-04-13
TIRED WOMEN.
Some Advice Which May Benefit Then
II Closelv Folioxvad

/ how is it that you manage TO keep your
engagements, which, l should judge from
what know OF your life, must be various
and exsctingl Perhaps you have some
vitalizing cordial that keeps you always in
| good working order and in cheerful spirits
/ n so let the glad secret be known. The
/ work Of so many women is done by the
hardest. and if there is a practical way of
| easing up, we should all be your debtors
do not think that / am lazy, though
might have been born tired, but the details
| OF housekeeping wear me almost to death.
j do not dare TO leave to-day's duty until to-
morrow for fear that shall not be equal
to the tasks of both days. and so plod
along like poor old horse, without courage
or enthusiasm. No child ever dreaded a
whipping more than l always dread the
next days work, no matter what it is"
So writes lady from Norfolk, Va, and
this letter is a sample Of many others that
fiutter in via the United States mail from
all points Of the country. This is an ex-
IRENE case, which is very hard TO deal with.
am more sorry than can express not to be
able TO give my Norfolk friend some prac-
tlcal help. but one can deal logically only
with the average case. The woman who
hates Homework and never feels able to do il
Is past assistance from my pen. l may have
an exaggerated impression of the difficulties
uuuSi HulCu IllJ Correspondent dDOTS, ana
do wish from the depts of my heart that she
would try my way, and see what would
come out OF it. Once after a serious illness
caused by foolish waste of strength In pro-
fesssional work, my physician, a soft
hearted. hard-headed old gentlemen, thus
addressed me:
1T will not be necessary for me to svisit
You more than twice more on this siege, and
it depends entirely upon yourself whether
ha ya ha
Gent vitality to enable you to accomplish a
great deal Of work, but remember that your
temperament needs TO driver. Rest when
you-are tired, and never urge yourself to
the task which is uncougenial only when
you are not in a condition to perform it, If
you are too weary TO keep a social engage
ment, break it. We are none of US half 50
much consequence as we imagine. Thed
ner or the reception will get along well
without you. If you rest the day you do
not fell like work, my word on it you can
do double duty the next day and not
mind it.n
This advice is always present with me. It
acted like charm and | have never ceased
trying to have others profit by it.
Literary work differs in many respects
from house work, but an engagement to
have copy ready at given time is quite as
binding as it is to have dinner ready for a
large and hungry family. Then there are
few literary women who do not have more
or less responsibility in housekeeping. For
instance, l have a neighbor, a very bright
writer and constant worker for HdrpeT'S
BdzGT, who is the mother of five children
and who is now without either a cook or
house maid. Something happened-some-
thing Is always happening in the domestic
regions-which made it necessary for her
to ''go it alonen for time. | saw her YES
terday, and found to my satisfaction that
she had neither hurt herself with work, nor
broken a single one of her literary engage
ments. The secret of this is that she was
wise enough to write ahead when she was
in the humor of writing, aud when the time
came for including three meals a day. dish
washing, ETC., etc, dd infniturn ad
nduSednl, in the daily programme she was
not distressed by the knowledge that she
had nothing ready for the printer.
81 am sure you would laugh to see how |
manage" she told me, land it isn't half pad
after all. II have an idea. down l sit and
elaborate it. If the dishes are not washed
they wait, and never upbraid me. have
found that by doing what feel like doing
at the moment, get through prcdgious
amount of satisfactory work with very lit
tie friction"
The troubleSis that housekeeDers get the
way Of thinking that they must perform
certain taskSon special days. Now. | do
not think that there Is any need of sweep
ing a whole house every Friday Just be-
cause it is Friday. l think if every other
week this sweeping day was turned into a
reading and longing day, there would be a
vast increase Of health in the world. Then
there are hundred things cooked in the
ordinary family that never ought to be
found on the bill of fare. They are turtful
and very expensive, both as regards maize
rails and the time and strength of the
cook
What is the matter with the babies?n l
asked of physician whose carriage had
driven up to my neighbours twice day for
several days
Cake, was the response.
"Dangerousln inquired.
Cake is always dangerous" he answered
We do not need cake, and our children
should have only the simplest kinds. The
craving for sweets is more or less natural,
and should be carefully gratifiei. There
are brittle cookies and plain jumbles. and
bread-cake that, if properly made and
baked, cannot hurt any stomach, but the
rich layer cakes, pound cakes, etc., etc,
that housekeepers spend 30 much time and
strength i'll making answer no other pur-
pose than to look pretty and breed dvspep-
STA. lcannot have much patience with the
woman who uses up her vitality in ooncoct-
ing unnecessary and hurtful dishes.
have no vitalizing cordial, and l have
no secrets in the matter. When the work.
ing fit is on know that my condition is
prime for work l try not to impose on
good nature, however, and do not, as the
old saying goes, ride free horse to DEATH
| stop before | am cross or headachy, or
stomach weary. And always have some
thing at hand to read, and something pretty
to knit or crochet or embroider within
reach. l can rest myself with fancy work,
and it is nobody's business but my own if |
stretch myself at full length while read or
knit. If there comes a day when | do not
feel like writing | can safely humor my
need or my caprice, for by working indus
triously when do feel like it | am prepared
to loaf aud invite my SOUL" Which / like
hest-to work or to loaf-I have never quite
decided, for there is so much to be said in
favor of both.
II the workers of the world would cease
t. sacrifice themselves to precedent and de-
tails and would consider themselves to the
extent of buying the things they cannot
make both in the kitchen and the nursery
they would gain both in strength and in
grace. If they would school themselves to
loaf without regard to yesterday or the day
after Tomorrow, we should have fewer
wr1nkled and cross grained women, fewer
chronic diseases, and @ healthier set of chill
dren. insist upon it that a proper regard
for the stomach. judicious loahng and
lightweight clothes, comprise the law and