The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-02-21
The Rest Cure.

Almost everybody is tired. The rea-
son for this is not far TO seek-its
cure, alas. seems impossible. There
are but twenty-four hours in day and
one-third of these are devoted to rest
Into the other hours too much is
packed. Women are urged to be in
dustrious, to be occupied, to study, to
attend to social duties to work deeds
of charity. What does this mean?
Most women are confronted by the
problem of making one dollar do the
work of five The time has gone by
when a best dress would serve year aft
er year and then be decent enough to
lay its wearer out in when her chance
To rest finally came. Nowadays the
summer hat and the winter hat do not
alternate, but new hats must come
with the change in seasons. Children's
clothes are more of a study since
aprons went out of fashion. In old
times, the sewing society meeting was
the annual function, noW-well it isn't
now. If woman has to economic,
she has good deal to do. The only
way for her is to make her clothes and
her children's, to make them and make
them over; to do more or less of her
Homework, for everything goes farther
when the owner is the measuer. ]
wish every woman who is working
Wal " " iidh1 DOll GtluS litFG NOuld
carry a pedometer and count the miles
she walks each day. Is it any wonder
she is tired? Is it any wonder if she is
q little short of amiable? If there is
debt. she does the worrying. If
there is a hayward child, it is the
mothers heart that breaks. If there is
unhappiness, her pride strains to cover
1t. And this woman is urged to attend
mothers meetings. to join reading
oil he l.
the poor. She would better take the
rest cure and save herself from an ut
ter breakdown.
] fancy I hear the exclamation of
scorn at the foolishness of the sugges-
zion. Rest cure! Who would take care
of the house who would see to the
children. who would do the spring sew
ing. who would run her legs off. as she |
does, to wait on a helpless family? Who |
will do it all when she is in the insane |
asylum or in her quiet grave? AS we'll |
take thought of herself while there is
time BY and by she will be gone and |
forgotten. by and by her place will be
\hlled by some one who has taken care
of herself, and so remains usefully
alive. Try the rest cure. If you were
i'll, you could have a day in bed-have
it before you are i'll. Arrange to stay
quietly in bed. Be fed. be left alone
Do not get up for anything short of a
confagration. Do not read, do not
crochet do not see callers. Lie quietly
in a shaded room. Sleep if you can. at
all events stay in bed. A quiet day
once a month may save your children
from the orphan asylum, may save you
from nervous proStration. An office
clerk went to her physician when al
most q. nervous wreck. Take a vaca-
ton at once" But that was impossi-
bic: so he ordered her to go to bed ev-
cry Saturday afternoon and to remain
there until Monday morning. In a
month the tired woman was again in
perfect health. She took her rest cure
just in time. So much is expected of
every woman, so little allowance is
made for the frailness of her make up.
that the wonder is that she is able to
accomplish what she does.
A woman cannot hedge herself in
and say, l will do just one thing. A
man is a lawyer and cannot drive a
nail to save his life-E personally know
him: he keeps a store. but he orders
his clothes from a tailor, he does not
even make his shirts or neckties; he
is a shoemaker, and yet he buys his
boots and shoes: he does not wash his
gloves in gasoline he does not plaster
his mirror at night with damp hand
kerchiefs. washed to save laundry
DlllS; ne doesn I COOK DIT OF break 4
Fast over a spirit lamp and wash up
the dishes before going to business.
There are a thousand things he does
not do which a woman would do and
which everybody would think she !
ought to do. She cannot do her days
work and stop. She cannot spend three
hours reading the paper, she is denied
he solace of a pipe, she seldom falls 2
asleep in her chair. Therefore she
ought to take the rest cure, and take
t now.-Union and Times.