Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-08-04
Don't eat too much


Don't get tired trying to be
amused
Don't dress too much.
Don't see to many friends
DO eat light meals at regular hours.
DO rise at the regular time.
Do have complete change in sur
roundings
Do associate with persons who rest
and amuse.
DO have quiet pleasure.
How business women may escape
the blues" on Monday morning is a
problem that most of them world
like to solve. for nine out of ten If
acked would acknowledge that they
dread the day. Often, too, before
they discover the cause of their
headaches and general lassitude they
are really i'll with some nervous dis
order which is in reality brought on
by too much Sunday or holiday cele-
bration. This, at least, is the opin-
ion of a woman physician whose prac-
tice on the first day of the week con-
sists largely of women and girls who
have worked so hard trying to have
a good time Sunday that they have
made themselves sick.
IF working girls would only real
ize, aside from a moral point, that on
Sunday they should rest that their
bodies and minds need it after the
duties of the week. she says, fewer
of them would go into offices and
shops on Monday morning feeling
blue, tired and wishing that they
could have stayed home in bed. IL
| had my way with business women
| should insist upon Sunday being OBJ
served as day of rest-rest in the
broadest sense. | should make it a
rule that all thought of the daily
work be banished; that nothing that
is a part of the regular routine of
duties be referred to during the day:
that none of the wearing apparel
used during the business hours be
put on; even associates that are
regularly encountered in the work
should not be seen.
I'm this way a complete change is
secured, whether a woman goes out
of town for a day or afternoon or
stay at home. ~ following these
simple suggestions an entire change
of thought, in fact, a different at
mosphere, is created, and this, with
out any kind of amusement, is both
the worker to get out of herself into
another world, as it were, so that on
Mondays she goes to work with re-
newed feeling of interest in her du-
ties and a mind at peace with the
world.
80 thoroughly do belive that
change is restful and essential in a
busy life that If home duties or the
weather prevent ones going out of
the house l advise changing the po-
sition of chairs, bric-a-bric, from one
room to another, or If girl is
boarding, then placing a chair in an
unfamiliar position, or turning the
pictures with the glass to the walls
for relief from the monotony of every
day existense.
Though every woman has her
own definition for rest, it seems to
me the most normal sort is that
which makes a quiet day. An hour
or even less spent in church where
there is beautiful music and a short
service dispQses of the first part OF
the day. After dinner a call on
friends who are entirely congenial,
and who give one different view
point from that which is necessary
during the week, is stimulating ana
at the same time restful. Or walk
in the country or park;;a boat ride II
a secluded spot can be found where
quiet is possible, is decidedly bene-
fetal, especially to persons of nerv-
GUS temperaments. A concert or
lecture are equally good If the latter
is on a subject that is of interest and
will not fatigue the brain by de-
manding too much thought to COM
prehend the meaning.
Crowds should be avoided.
whether on boats. cars or on prom
enades, for there is surely nothing
elevating in being pushed and jostled
about by hundreds of people, all OF