Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-14
WOMAN AND HOME.
DISASTROUS RESULTS OF ovrp-
WORK AND LACK OF SLEEP

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men the days are long and hot. when the
nights are short and person is not cool
enough TO sleep until late, there is much dan
ger tAat the housekeeper will not see ia II
that she has enough sleep for the keepno mn
OF her strength. 1t is, of course, much the
wiser plan to get up early, and do the heavy
part Oh the days work in the cool time of the
morning, even though one be SO sleenv Il
seems very hard to get to work. However
TINS sleepiness soon wears off. and the work
goes easily and well at taat ti..le of dav.
The farmer and his men are at tbair ,yo,l-
as early as the housekeeper, and SO are ready
for the early hearty dinner, which must he
prepared over the hot stove After the din
her Is eaten the men folks always give them
selves a half hour or more of rest. but tbe
women of the home must, or they think they
must, Immediately clear the table. and If is
seldom mudh less hot in the dish water than
over the stove. When the dinner worl, is
done, If no extra homework calls. there is
always the mending basket, or if nothing be
pressing the average woman begins to sew
carpet rags or piece guilt
We see much in the papers nowadays about
the fact that insanity is very prevalent
among women of farmers homes. This is
accounted for in many ways-''overwor y
monotonous existence and occasionally
some wise men say too little sleepD If
women who have to work for farm hands. if
women who carry heavy homework wear
IN and year out, would deliberately make IN
their minds to take midday nap, thew
would find in the long run that they could
do more and better work, and come out of
hard work with better nerve than if thew
tried to work every minute of the day The
few minutes of daylight sleep wi come
back laden with manifold riches of strength
1t is useless for a woman to say she cannot
sleep i'll daytime. If any one will lie down
quietly and close the eyes one-half hour per
day, at the same time every day for two
weeks, there will be no trouble 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 it.
because the nerves will not be so worn and
tired as to make one restless.
No one can make a rule that will applv TO
every one as to the r.-r'." amount of sleep
necessary; but one 49, e., :,...-,,-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 up to breakfast whether their seep is
tout" or not. They will wake up of their
VIII ha,
We women do too much work in many
directions. We sew too much, we tso1ne of
u.s. scrub too much, and many a one cleans
for hard hours at a time when very few
minutes of care taking would have prevented
the necessity for the cleaning. If we would
take a nap in the midst of the day. and bv
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, so that she does not
become overtiTed before night She began
the habit when she FIRST began to keep house,
and learned to always take the time for it
because it was economy III the end
We hear much about woman's rights, but
no woman uses all the rights that are ac-
corded her unless she makes of herself phvsi-
caily the strong woman she has a right to
be, then increases her mental strength to
what 1t should and can become When the
majority of women do this there viii be no
question as to the status she VIII have in the
home, the neighborhood and the nation
Mrs Kedzie in Philadelphia Press