Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-02-09
Learn How to Rest.

Learn how to rest. you women who
would take the best care of yourself at
the least time and trouble. thorough
rest of even half an hour will do more
than the average woman has any idea
Of toward wardng off doctors bills and
illnesses, not 10 mention that il will keep
her looking young long after years are
against her.
But rest is not simply dropping down
in a chair or even throwing ones self
down on Il lounge. booted and frocked
Not at all. There IS nor even muscular
relaxation in this, and practically no
nervous relief. TO be refreshed one must
live up to il, body and mind. make
business Of It, hguratiyely speaking II
may seem a nuisance, but when did one
ever have anything worth while without
working for it,
There is nothing in the world to equal
taking off ones things and getting into
bed, doing it quite as though it were
bedtime. And vet, | should say there is
nothing to equal that; there is one just
Il little better, and that is taking a hot
bath first. Try it, ye skeptics. One of
the best known society women In New
York. who looks scarcely older than her
daughter, who has been out for two sea-
sons. attributes her youth almost solely
to the fact that every afternoon or early
evening of her life, before dinner. she
takes hot bath and goes to bed, some
times for not more than ten minutes.
no take = hot hath and 90 ont immp-
diatelv afterward will seem to many per-
sons to be the height of imprudence,
but it is not really. quick rub with
nIcohoI will close rho, pores and unless
one is very careless in dressing there will
be no exposure TO cold. OF course when
you come down to it it is like anything
else; it may be abused and be injurious;
properly managed if is panacea.
The theory of the. treatment is very
simnIe: thar fatiruc reduces the strength
and vitality. making one susceptible to
cold and illness that under ordinary CON
ditions vouId be harmless. As TO the
effect upon the complexion. resting the
nerves relaXes the muscles of the face
ana the rnsnit il smoothnnss ana frest-
ness wLen othnr,vis, there is y drown
look
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IneIeloie IaiI an houf At ieaSt ShouIa
pe gwen over 10 rest TO aFolu illness ana
iophlhs iht WORKOUT olu woman.
l1ale IN the afternoon IS the best time
1@r reiaNauol' anywhere from 4:30 TO q
O'Clock, ana do not grudge the time. Ii
Il woman Is gong to rebel at being still
all the time she X resting she had better
save herself, for there will he no rest
III that at all.
If She decides To take Il hot bath and
go to bed she should have the latter
ready to get into Immediately ON Ieay-
ing the tub. Do not let the water be So
hot as to cause perspiration; it should he
warm enough merely to relax. If the
tub is long enough lie M tuU le,,trtb
most of the time while in the water 6Ii
in any event do not stav IN moro tLan
five minutes. Longer than thot mi@bt
be weakening.
The bed room sbould he ouitn 1arI-
and the strictest orders shouId he er;vnn
that one is not to be disturbed If 1bora
are children in the house tbev NAV 1Ia1-
heard by the one resting Telenhona calls