Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1898-12-28
WOMAN'SIDEA OF REST
cHATTERRox OF THE VAGUE.
wEARIsoME SORT.
Cannot Koop stlll n Mlnuto-No wonder
"Nerses" Develop and tho Family
Doctor Is Called in to Prescribe for
That "Tirad OUT Condition.

Doctor Is Called In to Prescribe for
That "Tirad OUT Condition.
Volumes--in disconnected essays,
sermonettes and club papers-have
been written on the average American
woman's ability to keep still, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser. She
is usually chatterbox-if not of the
rambling, vague, wearisome sort, of
the alert clipper, pepperbox variety
but even when she is not talker
she is fuss bundle of nerves, en-
ergy and restlessness and this in the
era of Delsarte, outdoor sports and
iced shower bathsl Her idea of rest
ing is characteristic. She exploits it
unconsciously in the pretty parlors and
writing rooms fitted lip for customers
in the big shops Perhaps she is ele-
gantly dressed, lorgnetted, yelled,
faultlessly gloved and shod, armed with
a card case for her afternoon round
of visits She has promised to meet
Mrs. Blank at this shop at 8 o'clock
and she glides with a swish and frou-
frou of silken skirts to wait in the
empire parlor She has been in this
empire parlor dozens of times before;
she knows every picture on the wall
and she is perfectly familiar with the
| frescoes on those mantel vases and
the design of the chandelier. But she
finds 1t impossible to sit still. She
wanders around the room, gazing in
tently at the pictures, anxiously OK
aiming the details OF the fireplace and
even opening the little writing desk
to see the pigeon holes inside. She
walks up and down, her skirts brush
ing the ends of the rug up as she gees.
When she walks up and down, she
puts the rolled-up end in place
with the tip of her patent
leather boot. She sinks into a big
chair and watches the women who
pass in and out of the room. She signs
gets up again, looks toward the ele-
vator and when she sees Mrs Blank
coming does not wait for her. but
sweeps off to meet her. The other
woman whom one would naturally ex-
pect to find more fussy If more weary
than her fashionable sister lives in
the suburbs She haI had busy days
shopping and she comes to the empire
parlor to rest bit, take an inventory
of her purchases and wait for train
time. She has bundles. Why DO
suburbanites burden themselves with
bundles? Expr6ssa companies are
cheap and reliable and many shops
send goods free OF charge within a
radius OF 100 miles Well, she has
bundles anyway, and she pumps them
down on the sofa. counts them, piles
one on top of another and then seats
herself at the writing table The chair
squeaks or catches in the rug and she
gets up to investigate. Then she sits
down again and begins to write.
Scratch, scratch, scratch! What a
pen! What an awful pen. Please get
her another. The white-capped attend
ant opens the table drawer and the
suburbanite picks out a stub. 1t takes
good while to break in" and she
makes hieroglyphics all over a sheet
of paper before she begins her accounts
and inventories. When she starts to
work the clock strikes Goodness
gracious, SO late She consults her
watch. 1t agrees with the clock. 1t
can't be so late She consults the at
tendant. Is that clock fast? Her
watch is the same hour, but riding on
trolley cars affects watches and she
doesn't know-not fast? She sets to
work in earnest. Her pen flies and she
plies the blotter often and vigorously.
Then she arranges those bundles once
more-just from force Of habit or on
principle, perhaps-and, seeing that
she has ten minutes to spare, she sits
bolt upright, closes her eyes, folds her
hands and prepares to take a siesta.
To be sure she opens her eyes every
time a skirt swishes by her, but she
feels much refreshed nevertheless and
when she finally leaves only comes
back twice, once for her glove, which
she left under the writing table, and
the second time for a small bundle
which, in spite Of all precautions, es-
capped the embrace of her encircling
arm and fell to the floor And (this
is not moral, only question from a
puzzled member of the sex, who is just
as restless as the others) why don't
women, active, bustling busy women
rest when they get the chance-and
when they seek shop-parlors, seaside
resorts and other busy places, with the
avowed purpose of resting?
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