The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-29

several hours Of sweeping, dusting bed
making and other homely occupations|
Idaily. This is for the reason that house
work Is not popular with women as rule.
land in the case Of patient whose house,
hold worries are the root Of the nervous
trouble 1t could hardly be recon mended j
But in the case OF women Frustrated
Through too much social life. too many
dinners, late hours and the constant rush
of up-to-date existence, 1t Is undoubtedly
valuable prescription.
| year or two ago one woman wrote al
| little book explaining how the various|
tasks Of home could be converted into]
beneficial exercises for women by com
Dining the action Of the work in hand with
1.-The idea OF health. 1t was really an ex-
Icellent system OF domestic Delsartean
lexercises, but like every other form In which
THE teachings OF the French philosopher
come TO us in their translation, il was. not
Iwell understood, and met with some ridi-
Icule.
But the idea Of homework az a cure for
nervousness may perhaps prove OF benefit
Ito the m ny women who are at present
lstriving by means OF drugs to obtain natural
lrleep or else seeking for relief In continued
Excitement that only adds force to the
1original cause.
The Queen Of Sweden began the day By
making up her own bed. She swept and
busted her room. prepared her own break
fast and worked in the garden for several
hours each day. By evening she vas 30
tired from the unusual manual labor that she
slept peacefully through the night. re-
suit that had evaded all the various RENE
dies tried previously.
But before homework can be used as a
means to this end 1t must be TO a great
degree made esthetic. A woman cannot
90 down into a dingy kitchen 10 wash.
scrub or iron under the impression that the
mere doing Of the work under untoward
! conditions IL all that is desired.
| The average woman must content her.
self with tasks that keep her above stairs
and out OF the kitchen regions, unless she
! takes the means adopted by Philadelphia
woman. who supplies one Of the most re-
! markable homework cures on record.
! In her case there was a complete change
Of environment and scene and the cure
/ was an unconscious one. although the physi-
clan nd trained nurse in charge have since
! put the same system into practice with
good results.
The patient was q woman OF social posi-
,,,r ,.,ho h.d h,oLen down Under the strair
Of entertaining and being entertained IN
| her own CITY and At the most famous of the
summer colonies. Her mental condition
was despaired 81, after she had tried the
usual -ea voyages. sanitariurDs and all the
treatments that modern health cures AZ
ford A famous nerve and brain specialis'
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