The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-14
REST FOR Tired WOMEN
Home Keepers Need to Learn.
How to SYSTEMATIC and
Thus Tighten Their
LaborS.
RECREATION ABSOLUTELY necessary
When Taking 1t Chase Dull Care
AWay-Timely Suggestions on
an Important Subject.

No one knows the care OF a house in all
it's departments but ono who has tried il
for years. No one can know the weari
ness of selecting. planning aud knowing
just what will be served lard better than
any one else. TOO. just how it will be
served) for the 1.095 meals which are need
ed to give ones family n Tear's growth
except one who has planned that number
for several years.
Over and over again one hears:-'She
is worn out; she has kept house for ff-
teen years. and she is the best housekeep-
er l know"
All through the history of humanity a
need calls forth a supply, writes Annie
Payson Call in the Baltimore Herald.
Each condition Of suffering or demand
has, through all ages, brought forth its
cure. it's reply. Sometimes we do not see
the cure as quickly as W. might, but it is
waiting, always ready. when IL need is
great enough to drive US to it.
What, then, is the response here to the
hundreds of drawn, tired faces; the hun
dreds of strained, tired voices; the hun
dreds of brokeu-down women who, in
stead of ripening into a vigorous old age,
wither and droop into different stages OF
~ineapacity and suffering?
The answer is here:
Learn bodily economy.
Spare your forces as YOU spare your
money.
Watch your bank account OF muscular
and nervous strength.
Let us see how it is to be done. Each
household may be said to consist of four
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is the servant, or governmental; second,
the sanitary; third, the culinary, II
| fourth, the aesthetic. which covers all de-
corative conditions. refreshing o f orna
ments. Heterogeneous. etc., and is
equally important with the others in the
formation of a restful home.
We suggest this way of laying out the
| work lone by every home-maker, because
| system mot routine) is in itself refresh
ing. 1t is a restful thought that, looked
at in q comprehensive way, our round OF
| daily drudgery has this possible dignity.
1t also helps US TO i~u0ividualize our duties,
and see whence comes the friction which
is the cause of our wear and tear.
TO reign nobly and successfully over
these departments. even III u cottage,
housekeepers need a few simple acquire
ments OF body and mind; need to a
them become habits; habits so deeply
woven into her existence that the pos
oOEooh A.
but habits of whose absence she would
be eXquisitely conscious.
First, breathe slowly, breathe deeply,
breathe quietly, breathe pure air.
There is no room more easy to ven-
tilate than a, we'll planned kitchen, for
the heat is sufficient TO permit the con-
slant entrance. of cold air. Many a
mornings preserving or baking may be
metamorphosed from a mere firing,
fatiguing task into healthful exercise II
these points are attended to.
Many a sinkful OF heavy dishes have
been washed with as pure results MS GYM
uasium practice, if pure air is well
breatned meanwhile, which is Il strong
point against ventilated buffers closets.
Second-Stand well. not on the heels,
not on the toes, but fiat IN the balls OF
the feet, the body poised slightly for
ward. the chest we'll raised and air filed.
Orders given to servants or Uradesmen
from such a polse will doubly impress
themselves, and bring doubly fine results.
When you stand this way you rest part
of your body, even though The standing
muscles are fatigued.
Above all. when you rest, restl IL you
awe Il few minutes to sit or lie, do no.
thing else in that few minutes.
Allow your chair or couch to receive
the whole of your weight, II give your
thought only to your W weight. In
this way you will double the amount of
rest you Ret lrOul AVe Of Leu ElluutoS
freedom from WORK or care.
Do not, while sitting or lying, allow
FOUR mind to plan what work you Will
do uext, how you will do it, how soon
you will be sufficiently rested to get up.
but simply rest and grow heavy. Let
your Imagination help, and splay." like
IL child, that you are q mountain or some
thing else which occurs to you,
The greatest rest comes from freedom
of mind. We can keep our minds free ii
we will but learn how. Let them take
up one thing at a time and be content.
Nothing is more sure to be slow poison
to the systems of American women, with
their consciences and their perves. than
the game of laps and slams" When
you stir cake, do nothing else; when you
bake it. rest ii you need it. Do not stand
around wasting good muscle and nerve
''wa.ting." .-... 81
Plan your work in you brain; then let
your brain rest, and it will be again
ready for work when your body is tired
and its work is done.
Cultivated women do not work with
the same good results physically as
peasant women, for the latter wo k with
their minds free from all thoughts but of
their work, while the former work wish
ing often they were anywhere but where
they are; or. IL not this. still minds are
working IN many different lines OF
thought.
When you find you are not taking
things one at a time and simply, and
therefore there is confusion and fatigue,
stop saort. Take ten minu.e s' rest; lie
down with thoughts OF your weight only.
aud you will be astonisheu at the results.
Everything will clear aud you will start
fresh as il after a good sleep. The day
that is the most full of pressing care is
the day when you anuot afford to take
at least one such rest.
10 prevent this confusion, cut off each
duty from its successors; begin anew
with each task and get in a deep, slow
breath before each change of work.
These are the simplest directions, but
IL followed they will surely prolong The
lives of all our faithful housekeepers
and a set of fresher faced ladies will
grandmother the mex generation,
Home Life of Men of Genius.
Mrs. Carlyle advised u friend never to
marry "a mar of genius" Carlyle had
genius, and the world honored him, but
his wife discovered that a man may he
applauded abroad, and yet be difficult 10
live with at home, Other wives nave had
! a similar experience. In the memoir of
Professor Phelps. his daughter quotes
The remark OF the wife of a man more
distinguished for his intellect than for his
! temper. She said:-
when | hear one of his great speeches,
l think, my child, we musn'J mind what
he says to us ut hone."
But all great men are not small men at
home. Austin Phelps was great as a
| preacher, a professor and a writer, but
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