Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-25

up muscle on the outside does not nee
essarily mean health or power &c resist
disease. Athletes are frequent victims
to consumption and heart disease. To
train the will that the body may be Kept
in poise is the first step toward grace and
the exercise of all the muscles. In the
management of the nervous, dress
is an important consideration.
Often the weakness of girls and
women is merely an affair OF
clothes. Once in some easy cos
tune, our girls, both large and small,
find they have more muscles than they
ever dreamed, and strength sufficient
unto the day. Clothing should be light
and warm, the garments worn being as
few in number as possible. Heavy cloaks
and heavy dresses are to be avoided.
Rough material is often great annoy
ance to the sensitive wearer. Soft,
smooth fabrics are much more satisfac-
tory, requiring less time for brushing
and cleaning. When the habit Is as
costly as the purse can buy-well-tittlng,
modest and artistic-one cause of worry
and strain is removed. The well-dressed
woman, harmonious and at ease, torgets
herself utterly, and can devote all spare
energies to capturing the happiness OF
the moment as it flies. Emerson realized
the wisdom of conventional garb for
those who are not robust when he says,
in effect, that weak nerves must have
good coat. Every woman needs an easy
lounge with cushions and pillows of
various sizes. 1t is great rest to the
whole body to lie at full length with
little cushion tucked under any part
that calls for support. To close the
ewes and think of nothing at all
for ten or fifteen minutes at intervals
during the day is great restorer of tired
nerves. If half an hour before the mid
day meal, and a little longer before the
evening meal, can be thus employed
regularly, the result in a month or two
! will surpass belief. Rest and exercise
are equally important for the average
nervous woman. Nine or ten hours In
bed and for sleep are necessary If nervous
states are to be overcome. When there
is much irritability and weakness, from
8 o'clock at night to 8 in the morning
are good hours for repose. Breakfast
should be in the room, and the day be-
gun about 10 o'clock, when the family
have dispersed and the house is quiet.
A short, brisk walk in the open air, with
correct poise and breathing, breaks up
| the .ttiresome old vault of heaven into
new forms" and prepares the mind for
the new work of new day. Regular
employment is one means OF cure IN
nervous disease; occupation for each
day at the same hour. The sufferer can
not keep herself to routine work with
out another's help. In nervous states the
will is exhausted or diseased, and some
times primarily deficient. Judgment,
firmness, sympathy, kindness. must be
supplied from without-poured ID, as II
were, to hold nervous girls and women
to definite tasks. This is the Office Of
friendship, one impossible to overestimat,
in value. Charles Kingsley, when asked
how he accomplished so great an amoun
of varied work, replied, laconically, .
had friend" Well for the nervou:
woman if she can say as much! Then man
ual labor and intellectual effort can become
aids to the thoughtful physician, anC
rouse into activity health giving power
dormant for want of proper stimulus
Athletics FOR women is question mucl
in evidence of late. Like every othe
question, there are two sides to 1t. 10
women VINO take no exercise at all, it is
distinct gain t, go through definite mus
cular movements in well-ordered gym
nasium, and to develop groups of muscle
that are deficient. While athletics offer
field of promising chances, there ar
, other equally productive ways of givini
elasticity and tone to the muscles. HOY
. about homework? the polishing of til
silver, furniture and brasses; sweeping
, busting and cleaning, bed-making and tn
' preservation of law and order in closets
/ Such medical directions are like the con
mand to bathe in Jordan. The health
seeker of old felt offended at the sin
plicity of the prescription. So too, wit
n useful household arts. Yet in the pra'
f tice of these there are health and strengt
4 for the muscles, variety for the mine
v and moral uplifting in the knowled9
e of effort that is directly productive of il
|. creased beauty and comfort in the hous
J. hold. Very few American servants m
# their polishing material with brain
# sir!n as did the English artist his color
O 1t is the eye of the mistress that Sc
} everything--the little corners and ere
Y ices. 1t Is her hand alone that can gi'
&c the finishing touches to the best arrang
v ment of any room. To superinteDd re-
# ularly the care of either parlor, dinin,
If room, bed chambers, or halls, means COZ
r. siderable practice in household gymna
n tics. TO one unframed in domestic ar
|. such activities must be undertak,
=. slowly. First, room must be dust'
n regularly. Then quarter of a room mi
# be swept; then half; and, finally, aft
II few weeks. the whole floor. Eve
% woman should be allowed hobby. a ]
IF tie pet personal foible distinct from {
family iailings. And this hobby must
: protected by the sacred rights Of pro
id ertv, even If sisters, cousins and aunts d
lie approve. and though father may sec
in and mother may sigh" The FIRE
an blooms of little feminine fancies are
rh be trampled upon and scofIed at. /
sh women be happy in their own va
of The fret of feminine nerves is too oft
is the result Of want Of mental hcxibilil
IN. OF Of the fatal tendency Ia human natl
nv to arrange life with an eye single 90 a
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