The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-05
WOMAN AND HER HOME.
HOW THE REST THAT IS so BENE-
FICIAL MAY BE TAKEN.
The BOARDING House Mistress-Tench-
ing Children Right COnduct-The
Talent of Effective Dressing-HOw
to Steam the Face-MRryIand
Biscuit.

There is one bit of furniture no bed
room should want for-to wit, the ia
bouret. The little footstool. indispensa-
BILE in it's way. will not fill the place of
this more sufficient rest" for "bate-out
underpinnings," to use the washer Ia
dy's" euphemism.
Amply supporting weary legs, the Ia
bouret, together with an easy chair, fur
nishes a delight substitute for the couch
when resting and reading are to be COM
bined.
Physicians all agree that a woman
should as much as practicable keep her
legs on a level with the rest Of her body.
An occasional indulgence in that man
nish trick of placing them even higher
would help amazingly toward doing away
with those tired feelings and that drag
ged sensation.
Fashionable women, to whom the ne
cessity Of never showing fatigue and of
ever looking their best has taught the
mack of acquiring a maximum Of rest
in a minimum of time, are fast falling
into masculine habits of posture when
in the seclusion of bedroom or boudoir.
This era of exercise gives them their
cue. They learn on the tennis court or
in the ''swagger" gymnastic class how
entirely restorative it is to lounge and
loll about
On the other hand, in the less leisured
class, there is a regretabie proportion
Of women who. soundly intelligent in the
main, cling to old-fashioned and mista-
ken notions of decorum. These estimable
women could not by any inducement be
made to give their aching limbs a little
healthful liberty and relaxation. They
do not realize, or in their old fogyism
they choose to ignore. the fact that the
muscular and in turn nervous system
thrives quite as surely on variety Of
attitudes and motions as does the stom-
ach on a catholic diet or ones spirits
on the spice of life.
Those women who preserve the bolt
upright" on all OCCASIONS when not actu-
ally i'm bed need not hope to retain into
middle life youths most allurlng charm
Elasticity. Muscles kept over on the
stretch must lose their elasticity ere very
long. There is, it is true, a sort of au-
tomato springiness that some ever active
women carry with them into extreme
and extremely graceless old age. These
metallic jerks and starts hold about the
same relation TO the easy buoyancy Of
youth that the dance Of the grasshop-
per bears to the soft litheness of a pretty
Angora.
l have in mind one young matron and
mother-an acknowledged beauty-whose
health keeps pace with her looks. Not
so long ago a careless maiden literally
on the eve of her marriage, she scandal
lied the proper folks of a certain New
England village by kicking football on
the green lawns Of her future country
home Sensible girl. she is now happy
in the possession Of a physical founda-
ton equal TO the social and domestic
burdens that send half our society wom-
en- to untimely graves. Women may
or may not-about as they choose-keep
at bay the dreaded heart failure.
To go back to the innocent cause of
this plea for more limb room, want to
say of the tabouret that it may become a
most picturesque and important part
Of the mise en- scene of those hours Of
studied deshabille when pretty woman,
prettier than ever in flowing tea gown,
receives, half reclining, her intimates
only
In a winter room, furnished in mahog-
any and tapestrylike portieres, the
tabouret is effectively upholstered in old
fashioned worsted filled canvas, which
seems If not in reality, to owe its gay
pattern to the patient fingers of some
passed away kinswoman. Something
cool intexture should cushion the tabOu-
ret for summer-India silk linen or denim,
or best Of all, a square Of lovely mat
ting The japanese matting-a combin-
alton Of cotton and swamp grass, delic-
iously dyed-is finely woven and reversi-
BILE. and therefore extremely durable
Mrs Mariana F. Mccain in st. Louis
Republic.