The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1894-02-24
REST" AND SLEEP.

What Tired Women Need Is Not Change
Of Scene So Much as I1ore Sleep.
The club woman came in and sat down in
the shadiest corner and said that she was
tired completely out and necdcl a good
long rest, and that was all there was
about it.
was slipping her tea from the edge of her
spoon. what we women need is not SO
much rest as 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 had
taken complete rest from her labors if sac
had merely gone home and slept all she
wanted tor
The lady in question, being thus pressed,
said mo-" Snc must say that her idea of
stalking a 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 a real rest does
not come under consideration at all. Wom-
J.
but we must have sleep, and the more we
have of it the better we are. The early ris-
ing humbug has happily exploded. When
was child, it was in the fullness of its
vigor, and that wonderful poem, 1.-THE
Sluggard," by DR.. Watts, was being con-
tinually quoted to me. How hated DR..
Watts then-and now! I was slight,
nervous child. and 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 were to cultivate
the sleeping habit when you begin to grow
tagged with summer heats and try and set
10 hours night, the need of rest wouldn't
be half so apparent. 1t is the woman who
sleeps the most who the longest keeps her
complexion smooth, her eyes bright, her
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
beautifier 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 holiday,
and the poorest economy is that which
stints itself of a cool and airy sleeping
apartment. Better q stuffy or a poky par
lor or dim library than a room where
noises come and heat and flies abide. I
wish that could emphasize what mean in
some altogether unforgetable way. do not
mean that holidays should be tabooed I
only mean that they should be enjoyed
when they do come.
when ones vitality is utterly exhausted
from lack of sleep, no enjoyment of any
thing is possible. I know we American
women are apt to talk about waste of time
and say that we have too much to do to
dream of lying in bed for nine or ten hours
on a stretch. All the same we manage to
squander time in talk on the piazza, and
write pages and pages more than we need
to in letters to our friends, and do drawn
work. when it isn't needed any more than
a toad needs q 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 I'm going straight home to dinner and
to bedr'-Chicago Post.