The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-10-04
"REST" AND SLEEP.
What Tired Women Need Is Not Change
of Scene So Much as Moro Sleep.

What Tired Women Need Is Not Chang
of Scene So Much rs Moro Sleep.
The club woman came in II sat down II
tho shadiest corner and said that she wa
tired completely out and needed q goo'
long rest, and that was all there wa
about it.
"Restp" said the Fortnightly woman, whit
was slipping her tea from the edge of he'
spoon. "Nhnt we women need is not 81
much rest rs it is Sleep
Are not the two synonymous?" asked
the young member.
Not in general Interpretation. For in
stance, would the lady who has just com
planned of WEAKNESS feel that she hat
taken II complete rest from her lnbors If sh'
had merely gone home and slept all sh'
wanted to-"
The lady in question, being thus pressed
said mo" She must say that her idea OF
stalking II rest meant going out of town,
meeting new people, having a good time
with complete change of environment and
doing NOTHING that she had been in the
, habit of doing.
"You see" said the Fortnightly woman
in an oracular way, that u real rest does
not come under consideration at all. Won,
on can live without rest-mosto of us do
puu we IllSU hdNG SltCD, ttiNt tIS IltlC We
have of it the better we are. The early ris.
ing humbug has happily exploded. When
I was child, it was in tho f~ullness Of its
vigor, and that wonderful poem, "The
Sluggard," by DIR. Watts. was being con.
t~inually quoted to me. How I hated DR..
Watts then-and nowl ! was a slight,
nervous child, and I needed sleep and lots
of it. So do most people who are awake
when they are awake and who are to keep
up in the constant procession of life.
II tell you, girls, if you We're to cultivate
the sleeping habit when you begin to grow
tagged with summer heats and try and Get
10 hours u night, the need Of rest wouldn't
be half so apparent. It is the woman who
sleeps the most who the longest keeps be,
complexion smooth, her eyes bright, hel
heart young and her temper sweet. All the
rest in the world, as represented by travel.
ing hither and thither and piazza hops and
moonlight drives, isn't comparable as a
beautitier and nerve tonic with steady
habits and sound sleep. We don't need
rest in this busy world of ours. What we
need is sleep. 1t is better than a holiday,
and the poorest economy is that which
stints itself of q cool aud airy sleeping
apartment. Better a stuffy or a poky par
lor or a dim library than a room where
noises como and heat and flies abide. I
wish that l could emphasize what I mean in
some altogether unforgetable way. I do not
mean that holidays should be tabooed. l
only mean that they should be enjoyed
when they do come.
when one's vitality is utterly exhausted
from lack Of sleep, no enjoyment Of any
thing is possible. / know we American
women are apt to talk about waste of time
and say that we lave too much to do to
dream of lying in bed for nine or ten hours
a stretch. All the same we manage to
squander time in talk on the piazza, and
write pages and pages moro than we need
to in letters to our friends, and do drawn
work when it isn't needed any more than
q toad needs a side pocket"
Then the weary woman put down hertea-
cup and picked up her parasol. "It'snearly
g." she said, and an energy born of anew
resolution thrilled through her %utterance,
''and Pm going straight home to dinner and
to bedn'-Chicago Post.