The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-13
THE FAT OF RESTING.
AN AGREEABLE WAY TO RESTORE
WAs9D STRENGTH.

psople Think hey Are Resting When
They Are Expending Nervous
strensth-Do't Worry, but Just
Rest-A Modrn Belle in Her Bou-
doir.
From III Washington Star.
Thelatest beaJy formula demands neither
cosmetics, nor nssage. nor athletics, but
rest. AS JamesVh iTcomb Riley so pleas
tngly remarked his audience few weeks
ago;
"Jes giout and rest
And network at nothin' ese."
''Jes' a restf through and through,
could Dng without
Nothin' elselt all TO do"
And everybod who pressnds to be any
body is doing !, too, and would no more
think Of resortig to the first named devices
for improving thir looks than of wearing a
last years bonne with that same great end
IN view.
''Why no. dear; certainly am not ill.,
said a Washington bele, who, clad in a
bewildering robe de chAmbre, spoke from
the depths OF IA eidsrdown upholstered
couch IN a daHkened boudoir to a girl
friend who had Just ben granted the privi-
lege of entering. 81 an just resting. They
are all doing 1t.
''What fora Why, how funny! To make
one fresh and strong. IF course. Haven't
you heardl Indeed. ifit had been any one
else in the world but yu couldn't possibly
have seen her, for tits is my rest day,
when see no one; havs my meals served
in my room, sleep all IAN, aud il cannot
sleep lie still with my eyes closed.
1T would tire you mre to do that than
30 make a round of calls Well, that shows
just what state your nerves must be in
when you cannot keep qiet that length of
time, and l advise you vhsn you go to bed
tonight TO not get ID for twenty-four
hours, and then only to 'eturn for the night.
You'll feel like new theday after that.
THE REsT Theory.
why, it stands to nason,n said the fair
roster, propping hersel in more conver-
sational attitude as she Jaw an opportunity
to disseminate her favoite gospel of rest
a chance not to be neglected even at the
sacrifice Of some Of her own repose-"that
as long as we so unnecessarily waste our
vital force by the nervous tricks we all
have of walking the floor, drumming on
window panes. rocklIg-why, most as
suredly rocking tires oneln SAID she in
answer to an exposulatory ejaculation
from her friend. Livery time you rock
you are wasting jut that much energy
that might be expended In far wiser way.
"Well as | was saying, as long as we in
dulge in all these unnecessary movements.
10 say nothing of hboring beyond ones
enRbh-as so many have to dove need
a day wherein to recover from their bad
effects, just as a worker who has wasted
time which should have been employed in
his business has to take a day or two to
catch up
"Ot course, as soon as we became repose-
full and free from all these foolish ways we
will no longer need such period of reouper-
alton, bat until that happy state OF things
is a reality we will Nor is it SO easy to
Danish those habits for till now have been
a devotee Of the rocking chair, and you have
no idea what time l AN having breaking
myself Of rocking.
WHAT TO IMAGINE.
mo, indeed People are not resting half
the time when they imagine they ars," the
learned roster went on animatedly. NOW,
you, Agnes" said she, critically examining
her friend, think that that chair is hold
ing you, when, in reality, you are holding
on to the chair. Now. just for a minute
imagine yourself heavy-devitalize the
members, as the books say. Fancy that each
foot weighs several pouuds"-Agnes here
looked as IL she wondered if this were a
reflection on the number of her shoe and
promptly withdrew her foot beneath her
etticoats-'snd your arms Fights pounds,
and 30 on. There" as Agnes, deciding there
was no insinuation intended by the resters
personalities, settled obediently into her
chair, "look how you relax your clasped
hands
THAT shows that you were actually dis
sipating strength, when careless observer
hal In fat of
plete repose.
And, by the way, that idea just sug-
gested of imagining yourself heavy is the
new cure for insomnia-far better than re-
psating the multiplication table or wearing
a wet towel on the back of the neck, which
Is liable to become anything but a pleasant
bedfellow in the course OF the night In
stead Of these, upon stretching yourself out
in bed begin with your fingers. aud mag
Inc that each one weighs pound; that will
have the effect OF making them lie entirely
MISUNDERSTANDING them. From that 20 to
your arms, which you are to imagine
weigh eight pounds; then your head, then
down your body to your toes, which you
are to think OF as weighing a pound apiece.
and the worst insomnia IN the world won't
have done this many times before he is
sound asleep, and sleeping right, too.
mo. Few people sleep properly; they
are twisted up III some fantastic shape or
are scoWliDg up their faces when they really
should be resting with every muscle re-
laxed, like sleeping child on cot.
Nature doesn't rest by halves-when it
Is night it is night; there are not flashes of
daylight every few minutes from dusk to
dawn, and when the trees are resting in
winter they do not foolishly put forth
bud every now and then to get nipped in
the chill cir.
HOW TO AVOID FATIGUE.
20, yes, If we would ouIy reflect for
moment we could save ourselves much IA
tlgue. In riding, for instance, if we are in
hurry TO reach our destination, Instead of
leaning back and taking it easy we sit bolt
upright and feel anxious, and in writing
with what unnecessary force some OF US
cling to that pen; and in listening TO music.
II we are keen lovers of harmon instead Of
letting the music come to us we go to it,
stralnlng every nerve TO do it. Why, my
mother has fairly worn herself out looking
at the pictures over in the Smithsonian,
when, since they are pleasure to the mind,
they should have been a rest to the body.
There are lot Of women" continued
the roster, "who, because they tire easily
have reputation for being very delicate,
yet who live on and on like-well, like a
feminine Methuselah-while some other
who apparently can stand everything dies
suddenly some day. Do you know the rea-
son of thisF'
Agnes didn't.
well, the woman who tires easily has no
nervous strength, SO shat when her physi-
cal force is exhausted she has to lay up for
n nd az a FaG1IE