The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-12-08
ONE DAY REST CURES.
A Perfect Repair Shop for Irritable
Nerves.

Perfect Repair Shop for Irritab BILE
Nerves.
New York. Dec. 6.-The one day rest
cure was first recommended and ex-
perimented with in New York city last
winter. Such boon and salve to over
excited feminine nerves did this method
of short and frequent relaxations prove
that the proprietress of Rest House, as
IL is called, has been obliged to incr
her accommodations. The proprietress,
who also proudly regards herself as
the originator of an entirely new sys-
tenn for conserving nerve force, began
professional life as a trained nurse,
whose speciality was the care of pa
tfents suffering from nervous prostra-
ton. Trained nursing,in her experience,
was an interesting and successful call
ing, but for an ambitious woman it
mad its limitations, and when she had
reached the top notch as a high priced
and expert professional she decided to
go into a bigger business.
She advocates the establishment of
institutions, modelled on her own, in
every big city in the country, not only
as successful business ventures for
enterprising members of her own sex
but also as sorely needed repair shops
for women who are overtaxed by the
demands of the hyper exhilarating and
strenuous modern city life
Rest House.
The beginnings of Rest House were
made by the choice of a plain but
ample old mansion, selected in that
quarter of New York city where the
roar of traffic is almost unheard. Be
fore the nFoOrfnfroaS edopoI he. Lao
she made careful Investigations as to
the surroundings. On one side Of the
property she wished to rent stood
Quaker meeting house, a library build
ing occupied the rear and an institution
for the shelter of aged ladies was her
left hand neighbor.
When the lease was signed the house
was uniquely and beautifully decor ated
under the lessee's personal supervision.
Upstairs and down the space was di-
vided into suits of bedroom, sitting
room and bath, and the walls were
washed with the softest and most rest
full tints, or hung with pleasing green,
dull red or quiet blue cartridge papers
In her experience with nervous folk
the head of the establishment had
learned the value of surroundings that
do not excite the Imagination
A figured wall paper is one of the
trifles she had found that can often
drive tired mind into a shockingly
irritable state. Flowers or geometric
patterns can become distorted under
an excited gaze into teasing likenesses
of people and things and sharp con-
trasts of color are almost as trying.
Dark walls or those colored a cloudy
grey blue are not finished with light
woodwork in that house. Door and
window fQpinpE 11 -
ture holdings are all painted the ex-
act color of the walls. Curtains and
carpets, shades and furniture are al
so equally plain, and where pictures
hang in room they are carefully Sc
lected photographs or engravings of
land or sea-scrapers.
Old FasniOned Simplicity.
From garnet to cellar there is not
one evidence of superfiuous modern
luxury or decoration, and the only brio
a-brac allowed are bowls and vases of
flowers, palms, ferns. ported plants In
bloom and occasionally a bowl of fish.
There are open fires in every room.
On the center-t table Of each sitting
room is green shaded students lamp
and few magazines; the guest goes
to bed by candle light, and the only
gas jets is in the bath. Electricity is
introduced only in the basement and
cellar. and in that latter subterranean
apartment the telephone, messenger
call and various bells, of the front door,
trades mems entrance and guests
rooms, are located. In the cellar also
is furnace that warns the halls by
heating pipes, over which fresh air
from the street passes before it rises
through the flues, and all the servants,
who minister in person to the wants
of the guests, are trained to speak in