The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-02-05

1900 SO@ ~
of its prettiness. 1t is the most artistic and
cosy nook in the world this rose-curtained
room though probably few dollars of &C
tual money would buy its contents. and to
it the over-worked clergy, the busy doctors,
the nurses, and the visitors amongst the
poor come throughout the day to snatch a
few minutes relief from that moral and
physical grayness with which they are
hourly bathing. If you were to ask this
little knot of workers how this cheap com
fort, added to the richness of the unpurchas-
able welcome, can so refresh and strength
en- them, their replies would, think, prove
to you beyond doubt that fatigue can be
either vastly accumulated or vastly relieved
by ones surroundings.
Another great assistance towards bright
ening life is to manage ten minutes rest
in the middle of the day. This is a point
equally insisted upon by medical men, those
doctors of the body, and by the clergy those
doctors of the soul, and yet it is point to
which not one worker in hundred will pay
the slightest attention. We all know per-
fectly well that in the long run ceaseless
strain Injuries the nerve system and conse'
quently affects our powers Of self control
and yet we behave as if the knowledge in no
way concerned US, though possibly our
home belongings could tell different tale.
If you-you individually who are Swimming
this paper-would make it as much mat
ter of course to lie fallow for ten minutes at
stretch once in twenty-four hours, and
other than when you are in your bed, you
would find the accruing benefit incaiculable.
To the objection that the time is packed too
closely to admit of any such leisure, COM
the sooner the time is unpacked the better,
for such state of things ought not to be.
Honestly, it helps one. Not at first of
course. but when woman is over-wrought
and since the normal condition of work is
healthy and naturally, it logically follows
that to be tired" in the performance of 1t
proves that she is over wrought-she is very
apt to imagine that the universe will fall to
pieces If for one MON nt she relax her en-.
deavors. But when that feeli 1g has been
conquered by the negative strength of re-
fusing to be Influenced by it,then its advan.
tages will make themselves felt. Don't try
to read or even to pursue any sequence Of
thought; just try to vegetate. That "change
of occupation is rest" shares the fate OF
many another wise saying in being appro.
priated by the wrong class of people. It is
for those who are bored such a proverh
holds true. though the word rest might be
more accurately rendered as relief; while
for those who are genuinely weary it is a
mischievous, because a too bracing, doc.
trine.
II you demur that home ties bind too
closely, and cannot be loosened for even SO
short space, then it is to be feared that
you have been fastened upon by that grave
est of faults to which, probably, the more
conscientious amongst us can be liable, you
lack sense OF proportion. Which is better
to allow those we love to be somewhat less
comfortable for few days, or TO insure to
them the considerably greater discomfort Of
nursing US through a nervous fever? Which
is better to wilfully push aside this chance
of recuperation God has placed in our way,
or to lower our pride to the extent of asking
some kindly relative or friend to fill our
place in the house while we go in search OF
health.
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