The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-24
The "Sitfing Down Club"
It's the New Cure for Nervous, Amaze
mic, Irritable Women.

A nervous, anaemic woman applied
to her physician for tonic. The doc
tor looked at her over his spectacles
and growled: you don't need dosing,
madam! Learn to sit down."
The woman looked at him in amaze
ment and he went on to explain that
the average American woman had not
the slightest idea of how to spare her
SELF or harbor her strength.
You have acquired the habit of
rushing through your work at the
highest possible speed, and ANYTHING
winch will retard it's progress for an
instant is obnoxious to you. Study
the blessed gospel or sitting down. J"
was his final advice.
The woman has not only done this.
bue she has preached his gospel to
many of her women friends who were
rapidly nearing her own overweight
condition. Here are some of the ways
i'm which she has learned to garner her
strength.
She had washed her dishes at a sink
so low that she had been compelled
to bend over it, but she never thought
of sitting down before the sink. Now
she has DISTINGUISHING chair. Her
! husband simply cut the arms off a
hiSh-chair which the youngest child
trotted back and forth between this
sink and the kitchen dresser with each
dish as she wiped it, Now she has a
| little sewing table covered with oil
cloth beside the sink and the dish
washing chair" and she carries the
| dishes away all at once. The sewing
table can be folded up. and stands be-
mind the cellar door, for her kitchen
is small and space is al premium
The DISTINGUISHING chair is also en-
! pioyed when she cuts and bastes cloth
! ing for the children. She had always
| supposed that this task must be per-
| formed standing and bending over the
| dining room table, but she has found
| that a large portion of the work can
be accomplished from the vantage
point of the high chair.
Much of her ironing is done in the
same way. She swings the ironing
board close to the gas stove and turns
round on the chair when she wants
20 change her iron. In this way she
can do the plain ironing, such as
towels napkins and handkerchiefs,
without changing her position, and,
while there is a little unpleasantness
from being close to the gas stove II
doesn't compare with the wasted vital
ity which resulted from standing on
her feet.
She had learned to sit down in a
comfortable cushioned chair to pare
her vegetables. hull her berries, ice
ice her cakes and whip her cream.
When she goes shopping she always sits
down in front of the counter as the
most firing thing about shopping is
standing on the feet, but she frankly
admits that the most striking reforma-
ton has been worked in her bedroom,
where every woman is supposed to
rest
Here she has learned to sit down
when she dresses her hair, manicures
her hands and lAces her SHOES. Form
erly she stood before her mirror to
dress her hair. manicured her hands
hastily while walking from the bath
room to the bedroom, and laced
her shoes standing up, with the
shoes she was lacing raised on a
chair.
"I had the greatest trouble TO train
myself to dress leisurely' she said.
| II had always dreaded the time and
strength 1t took to dress my hair.
Many a time / did not curl il for no
other reason than the strength It took
to stand before the mirror, and yet
wasn't clever enough to think of sit
| ting down to the task. / have always
had visions of women of wealth who
sat before their dressing table in lace
/ trimmed negligees with a maid how
ering about them. but It never dawned
| on me that a woman who did her own
work was equally privileged to sit
! down to her toilette. I have bought a
| simple but very pretty little dressing
! table and chair for my bedroom in
! stead Of the onyx and gilt parlor table
have been promising myself for sew
era years, and my husband declares
/ that II is wise investment"
| The mere act Of sitting down and
| the resultant rest are not alone i'm
/ -. - hal. t.,tt
woman gradually secures a certain
poise of mind as well as of body
which comes with taking things more
| quietly.
The average woman who tries TO
keep her family affairs up 10 the
| standard of the modern household
wastes a tremendous amount Of