Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1893-11-24
WORRY OVER ThlSLES.
Many Women Wear Themselves Oct n
cause Their Work Is Not Systema lied


Many Women Wear Themselves Oct be-
cause Their Work Ia Not systsmatized.
Women worry too much over the
small affairs of life and wear them
selves out over such matters as un-
aarned holes in the table linen, tar.
nished silver and unwashed ice-poxes
OF course | am talking Of the great
middle class of women, who look after
their own servants and household and
attend to the marketman, butchers,
grocers and bakers, who help to form
the formidable array OF daily cares
which are inseparable from house.
keeping. Unfortunately, in nine cases
out of ten, lack OF system is the princi-
pal stumbling-block in the way of good
housekeeping and perfect service. The
woman who conducts her house on
system which servants and tradesmen
are made to understand will find her
lot much easier and will be able to con-
verse intelligently on some subject be-
sides that everlasting .bugbear, the
management of servants. Days and
hours arranged for certain household
duties and kept strictly will simplify
housekeeping and insure the respect Of
servants, however ignorant or stupid
they may seem. The great fault with
servants is that mistresses begin wrong
with them and then lay their own
shortcomings at the door OF the cook,
laundress or chambermaid It Is pos
sible to train the most seemingly inn
possible case OF servant-girlism to a
state Of absolute perfection, and this is
always done by the women who are not
hollow-eyed and worn out through
their struggles with the kitchenmaid
The man of the middle class who has
81, 900 a year clerkship on which to
support the family is, as a rule, not
borne down with the anxiety of living,
as is his wife, who presides over the
home. Some women seem 10 fret and
| worry and think those two verbs the
most important ones in the manage
ment of their households Women are
not good enough to themselves, as a
rule, and the health reformist who
breaches rest and sunshine and sofa
pillows and u matinee now and then to
the great army of housekeeping wom-
en- will have text worthier than mus
Gle culture and dumbbell exercise or
even the newest fads in physical train
ing. 1t is told that a certain New York
society woman whose engagements oc-
cupied nearly twenty-four hours OF
each day made practice of taking one
day every two weeks which she de-
voted to thorough resting process, re-
naming in bed all day and having mas
seurs manipulate her tired limbs and
aching head until the feeling Of posi-
tive and complete rest was assured.
would advocate such day off, for
housekeeping women. Not day al
home spent within reach of household
worries and annoyanees, but day be-
gun at Turkish bath establishment
and ended by perfect dinner at some
good hotel Get out of the rut Of
housekeeping worries once in while
| Rest the tired head and hands in the
luxurious languor of Turkish bath
Get medicined, manicured, massaged
hair dressedl You will go home feel
ing positively young again and will
surprise your household with smile
long absent among the wrinkles ant
lines of an existence made miserable
through constant friction with house
hold worries, IN. Y. Herald.
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