The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-09-24
THIS IS THE WAY TIRED
WOMEN MAY GET REST
New York SUM


New York Sum-
There are women VINO are always
tired. These include business women,
counting the great variety of Office
workers. as we'll as those listed in the
professional schedule; household work
ers, the women who run either their
own home or the home of someone else,
and rich women who need not work at
all unless they want to.
OF all these, the woman who gets
most tired is probably the office worker.
The girl who goes to an office every
day, rain or shine, regardless of her
health, regardless of her home cares,
regardless of everything except the
dollars she must earn, is the woman
who is apt to suffer most from fatigue.
The tired out office. girl when she
comes home must rest, and to rest
properly is one of the hardest things
on earth. How are you going TO rest
just because you are told to do SOP 1t
isn't easy to rest to order. The only
way 10 seek rest to order is to lie
down, and that is not always so restful
as it might be.
The woman who sits all day in an
Office and comes home tired and lies
down invites fat by this course. She
gets no exercise during the day and
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to exercise.
A certain woman. who runs a big
business and hopes to retire some day,
has a trick of undressing the minute
she arrives home at night. She fresh
ems up a bit and then puts on gym
nasium suit.
She seats herself and does stunts with
a chair. She tips backward and she
bends forward and she bends side
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relieves her muscles and stimulates
her nerves.
Tired out society women should try
very much the same thing; but their
exercise need not be so violent. They
are always on the go, and they can
take easier calisthenics. J
If the tired society woman Will put
on kimona and viii stand with both
hands out in front of her making a
moving movement with the arms she
will get good results. These move
ments of the arms are called the
Oriental motions.
They OPEN the lungs and exercise the
chest. They also bring the flabby neck
muscles into play and prevent them
from getting fat.
The kin7ono exercises are four in
, number. Stand erect and put both
arms out in front Of you. Lower them
to your sides with a sweeping motion.
The second kimono movement calls
for arms ouUstretched as far as posi-
BILE The arms are now thrown back
ward until the backs of the hands tap
each other behind YOU There are NOT
many who can do tits. But every one
can try it.
The third kinono- exercise is a see
saw motion. Up goes one arm and
down goes the other.
The fourth is the upward movement
You touch your finger tips above your
head. Then you bend backward.
You do this again and again until
YOU feel yourself refreshed. 1t is the
most refreshing of all exercises.
There is such a thing as being too
tired to work hard. And for this there
is the rest cure.
Many a tired out society woman
takes the rest cure when she feels
that she cannot go any longer. 1
The rest cure calls for three remedies,
the massage treatment. the indicated
bath and the vest cure proper
TIE massage. treatment begins, if you
are thin. with massaging oils into the
skin. The oils can be perfumed, ana
there are very thin. nice creams that
are just the thing for the purpose.
An excellent massage cream IS no
thicker than cream of milk. 1t is made
by taking an ounce of Sleeps fat and
keeping it hot in a doubdle boiler. To
this is added two ounces of the pure OIL
of sweet almonds Finally, there can
be q few drops of tie oil Of lavender
flowers. or a little oil OF geranium, to
scent it. The whole is removed from
the fire and slowly beaten with an egg
heater as it cools II too thin, 1t can
be reheated and a lump of spermacetl
of the size of walnut added 1t VIII |
keep forever and be nice for daily use.
Massaging with a good cold cream is
an art understood especially by the
Swedes. but it can be learned by any
one. The trick is to follow the muscles.
Don't forget that it is the muscles
that get tired Massage them lightly,
but fully, and remember that tie treat
ment must be light and not at all ia
tiguing. The patient is tired to be-
gin with. and the massage should De
invigorating, rather than depressing.
Medicated baths are understood |
throughout Europe, but are rare
enough in this country. The mud bath, /
in particular, is almost unknown here |
Yet it is not so difficult to give a mud |
bath or a medicated BATH.
handful Of sweet herbs thrown into /
the bath will help the tired nerves, and !
a little bath vinegar is almost necessa-
~. There are ammonia preparations !
that are excellent. ana you can make I
the best of cologne baths very cheaply. /
One woman gathers sweet herbs and
covers them with white vinegar. This |
she r,ours off after a While. and strain /
ing the vinegar, ske keeps it to add TO |
the bath.
There is another woman who makes
an excellent rose vinegar for the toilet. /
She takes two handfuls of prepared |
and spiced rose leaves out of the rose
lar and puts them in a deep stone
crock. In to this she pours one quart
of the best of claret vinegar.
She lets this stand for three days,
hours off and strains and bottles. Moth
ing could be finer for the bath.
Very weak ammonia scented with CO.
1oene IS good. And there is a. prepare
ton called in the south the bath of the
1t is made by taking a pint OF spirits
OF cologne and adding TO 1t Ten drops
Of good ammonia. This IS hShtly
corl5ed. After a week bottle of Vio-
let water is added. and the whole is
put away in a jug or large bottle.
When the bath is drawn IT IS MADE
milky with a teaspoonful of tinctule
of benzoin. and tfen a cup OF this bath
perfume is added. This makes de-
licious bath.
The tired out woman should take a
bath that refreshes the nerves. There
is a whole lot in nerve refreshment
Don't think you can rest While your
nerves are unstrung-
MARIAN MARTINEAU'S