The Portland daily press., 1892-02-02

this way you will double the amount OF
rest you get from five or ten minutes free-
dom from work or care. :,
| Do not. while sitting or lying, allow
your mind to plan what work you VIII
do next, how you will do it, how soon
YOU will be sufficiently rested to get up,
| but simply rest and grow heavy. Inc
greatest rest comes from freedom Oh
mind. We can keep our minds free II we
will but learn how. Let them take up one
thing at time and be content
Nothing is more sure to be SLOW poison
to the system of American women, Wltn
their consciences and their nerves, IMAM
the game of s'laps and slams" When you
stir cake. do nothing else; when you bake
| ii. rest if YOU need it. Do not stand around
wasting good muscle and nerve walt
ing"
Plan your work in your brain; then let
your brain rest, and it will be again ready
| for work when your body is tired and It's
work is done.
Cultivated women do not work with the
same good results physically as peasant
women, for the latter work with their
minds free from all thoughts but OF their
work. while the former work wishing OFTEN
they were anywhere but where they are;
or. if not this, still their minds are work
ing in many different lines of thought
When you find you are not taxing thlngs
one at a time and simply, and therefore
there is confusion and fatigue, stop short.
Take ten minutes rest; lie down Will
thought of your weight only, AND you
will be astonished at the results. Every
thing will be claer and you will start
fresh as if after good sleep. The day
that is the most full of pressing care IS
the day when you cannot afford to take
at least one such rest.
TO prevent this confusion, cut OH each
duty from it's successor; begin anew with
each task and get deep, slow breath be-
fore each new work.
These are the simplest directions, but
if followed they will surely prolong the
lives of all faithful housekeepers, and a
set of fresher-faced old ladies will grand
mother the next generation.
THE WRESTLING GIRL.
The whistling girl does not commonly
come to bad end. Quite as often as
any other girl she learns to whistle era
die song. low and sweet and charming, to
the Young voter in the cradle. She is a
girl of spirit, of independence of cha
racter. of dash and flavor; and as to lips,
why. YOU must have some sort ofpresent-
able lips to whistle; thin ones will not.
The whistling girl does not come to bad
end at all (if marriage is still considered
good occupation), except cloud may
| be thrown upon her exuberant young LIE
by this rascally proverb. Even IT she
walks the lonely road of life, she has this
advantage, that she can whistle to keep
her courage up. But IN a larger sense,
|
| stand. it is not true that the whistling
GIRL comes to a bad end. Whistling pays.
| st has brought her money; it has blown
her name about the listening world.
| Scarcely has a non-whistling woman
been more famous. She has set aside
the adage. She has done so much toward
the emancipation of her sex from the pre-
iudiee created by an ill-natured proverb
which never had root in fact.
But has the whistling woman come to
stay? Is it well for women to whistle?
Are the majority of women likely to be
whistlers? These are serious questions,
not to be taken up in light manner at
| the end of grave paper. Will woman
ever learn to throw stone? There 1t is.
! The future is inscrutable. We only know
| that whereas they did not whistle with
approval, now they do; the prejudice OF
generations gradually melts away. And
Woman's destiny is not linked with that
Of the hen, nor to be controlled by a
proverb-perhaps not by anything
| CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, in the
Editors Drawer, in Harper's Magazine
for January.
HOW TO HANG PICTURE.
Never put sombre-colored picture in
the shade, Put it where the light will
fall upon it, says the Ladies' Home Jour
nal. Between two windows place pictures
with light backgrounds that will stand
out the more prominent by reason of
their dark surroundings. Hang the pic
lures first, in suitable positions. and
group with smaller ones in two rows in
between Be careful that the pictures do
not conflict in color. Use your own taste
in this 1t is impossible to give any brief
rule on the subject Hang the picture
on a level with the eye, unless they be, as
some are, pictures which should be
| looked up to. Place small pictures in
corners and alcoves. Over doors place
large and unimportant canvasses, any
thing that looks we'll. Water-colors may
be hung on the same wall with oils when
framed in white. White margins on
etchings and engravings don't go well
with oils. The main light should be on
the picture.
PILLOW sHAMs.
| Whoever has wasted valuable moments
in attending to keep pillow shams in
their places will appreciate simple de-
vice described in the New York Ledger
which holds them in position and gives
very little trouble in the adjusting. On
the back of the shams, at each of the up
per corners, sew bit of narrow tape
diagonally across the corner. When the
shalns are put over the pillow, pull a little
corner OF the pillow case up through this
tape loop. Nothing further is necessary,
and the shams will stay in their places
unless some more than ordinary means
disturbs them. This is much more simple
and convenient than the various bars,
frames and riggings to which many
housewives think themselves compelled
| to resort.
| nrncnMNI AMI DENlII lad