Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-14
WOMEN WORKERS.
Brain Fatigue and Want of Open Air Ex
ercise-Precautions and Remedies.

Brain Fatigue and Want of Open Air Ex-
ercise-Precautions and Remedies.
In these days of high brain pressure it
behooves all women to study the simple
laws of health preservation. Not only
those who are forced to earn their bread,
but also those who endeavor to keep up
their social duties and improve themselves
intellectually, are kept hard at work till
the nervous system becomes impaired.
Women who do much brain work and
are subject to business worries would
profit by short rest or sleep during each
day, and this is the first thing a physician
would prescribe. But the brain will not
always submit to enforced idleness in
stantly an excited worker chooses. For
this reason it is best to work off the har-
assing matter, and, that done, move ON
the scene Of labor and take a doubled re-
pose.
Again, the doctors point out the folly Of
forcing the jaded brain to action by stim-
ulating drafts of any kind and consider
submission to natures cry of exhaustion
wise discretion. This is the common sense
view, but wanderers in the realms of i'm
agination--poets, fictionists-cannot al
ways enjoy this wise discretion, else would
half the material for which they have
scared or painted be lost to them
The other remedy proposed is to avoid
continued brain taxation by variety of
Dourishing refreshments every two hours.
II we cannot resign work and stimulant is
required, it is best taken with nutritive
accompaniment, such as beaten up egg,
some of the beef preparations etc, SO that
the brain may not be goaded to action in
dependently of the body.
Fatigue to the brain weakens the nerves
which assist in the formation of the gas
trio juice, and consequently the overworked
are usually martyrs to indigestion. The
popular habit of taking carbonate of soda
or hot water is pronounced by some health
authorities bad one, it being claimed
that, although in extreme cases relief is
procured, this temporary stimulation of
tho digestive organs results subsequently
in greater inertia. The preparations
now to be had, which almost exactly imi
tate the action of the gastric juice and
contain the active agents of digestion
pepsin, pancreative acid, Tactic acid, ETC.
are in great favor, but are probably most
safely used under doctors advice.
But remedies are of no uso unless the
cause be taken into consideration. Dress
makers, writers, clerks, who are OF seden-
tary habit, suffer from want of exercise
and free access to the open air. They have
cold feet and inactive livers. Naturally a
physician will recommend outdoor pur-
suits, but since these are impossible it Is
best to consider how compromise can be
affected
The Juvenile practice of skipping
though it may appear ridiculous, is
simple way of insuring circulation and
the cheapest. For the liver and cold feet
it is an excellent remedy-a physical
without mental activity which greatly
improves the appetite. Another advan-
tage in tho skipping process is the ease
with which it may be commenced and
dropped to suit any given period of leisure.
1t also saves the chance of oyerfatiguc
caused by walking undue distances with
faded frame.