The Portland daily press., 1895-08-10
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Are you irritable, nervous. sleepless?
Do you feel often as if you must scream?
Do you find yourself clutching your
hands at times in an effort to keep from
giving way to an attack of Mysteries?
Look out; you are going the pace that
kills, the pace of high pressure, which is
SO common with the modern American
woman.
Now why do work, worry hurry, break
down people? 1t is not physical labor
alone, or professional men and women
would be exempt; it is not mental alone,
or farmers wives would be exempt
while the combination of physical and
intellectual labor cannot be the cause
else society women, who live almost en-
tirely for pleasure. would be exempt In
all these classes victims of nervous pros
tration and worse fills are found. 1t is
lack of nerve force that causes the every
day physical and mental collapse. Nerve
force nowadays is extravagantly used and
insufficienlty replenished. When you fnl
yourself overwrought, your nerves tense
and quiver1ng, it is high time to stop
and relax.
Tension causes woful waste of nerve
force. What are some of its signs? Hold
ing the arms close to the body when
seated, locking the fingers tightly to-
gether, tapping the feet, jerking the
head, grating the teeth, working the lips,
contracting and elevating the eyebrows,
holding every muscle in ironlike rigidity.
This unnatural and wasteful tension is
antagonistic to natures attempts to re-
plenish the nerve forces. 1t is most i'm
portant that you should rid yourself of
this menace to your health-perhaps
to your reason.
Relax then. Relaxation is of more
value than distraction, pleasure or holi-
days. Relaxation means the freedom of
organs and tissues from.this hateful ten
sion. How often do we hear a hurrying
woman say: "I haven't time to rest.
I've SO much to do" Hurry and worry
are physical sins. When you feel most
hurried or worried then is the time to
relax
What is relaxation? Simply doing
nothing. Give up; let go; surrender the
nerve forces. Here is the first step to-
ward learning how to relax. With your
arms hanging at the sides, forcibly agi-
tate the the hands until they feel heavy
like dead weights. Shake them forward
and backward laterally and in circle.
from and toward each other. Shake all
the stiffness out of these direct agents of
the mind that by their restlessness and
tension report mental strain. By con-
tinued practice of this simple exercise you
will soon be able to withdraw nerves from
them at your will.-Hall's journal of
Health.
Care of Clocks
clock should be wound regularly, and
it is a singular fact that many of those
which will run fortnight will keep bet
ter time if wound every week. Accord
ing to Harper's Bazaar clocks are more
frequently injured from carelessness in
winding and setting, particularly the
latter, than from any other cause, and
the ones which suffer most are those
which strike the quarter and half hours.
On no account should the hands ever be
turned forward or backward past the
striking point. In clocks which strike
the quarter hours, therefore, the hands
should never be moved more than ten
minutes within each quarter.
Domestic Receipts.
A Nice jana raspberry jam may be
made OF either black caps or of the wild
red raspberry. Most hnusakeepers con-