Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-12
LEARN HOW TO REST.
Prevent Wrinkles and Save . Doctors
Bill

Learn how to rest, you women who would
take the best care Of yourself at the least
time and trouble. A thorough rest of even
half an hour will do more than the average
woman has any idea of toward warding of
doctors bills and illnesses, not to mention
that 1t 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 a lounge. booted and frocked. Not at
all. There Is not even muscular relaxa-
ton In this, and practically no nervous re-
lief To be refreshed one must live up to
1t, body and mind. make business of 1t,
fguratively speaking. 1t may seem null
sance, but when did one ever have any
thing worth while without working for 1t!
There Is nothing in the world to equal
taking off ones things and getting into
bed, doing 1t quite as though it were bed
time And yet, l should say there Is moth
ing to equal that; there Is one just little
better, and that Is taking 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 seasons attributes her
youth almost solely to the fact that every
afternoon or early evening of her life, be-
fore dinner. she takes a hot bath and goes
to bed, sometimes for not more than ten
minutes.
To take a hot bath and go out imme-
diately afterward will seem to many per-
sons to be the height of imprudence, but it
Is not really. A quick rub with alcohol
will close the pores and unless one is very
careless in dressing there will be no expo
sure to cold OF course, when you come
down to it it Is like anything else; it may
be abused and be injurious; properly man
aged 1t is panacea-
The theory of the treatment Is very SIM
pie; that fatigue reduces the strength and
vitality, making one susceptible to cold
and illness that under ordinary conditions
would be harmless. AS to the effect upon
the complexion, resting the nerves relaxes
the muscles of the face and the result is
smoothneSS and freshness when otherwise
there Is a drawn look.
If ever there is time of the year when
demand Is made upon woman's physical
strength it is when business occupies the
ing she has her social diversions. A wo-
man who belongs to the leisure" class is
working hard all day, too. with shopping,
engagements and the like, and at night
same or more so. Therefore half an hour
at least should be given over to rest to
avoid Illness and looking like WORKOUT
old woman.
for relaxation, anywhere from 4:30 to 6
o'clock, and do not grudge the time. If
woman is going to rebel at being still all
the time she Is resting she had better save
herself, for there will be no rest In that
at all.
If she decides to take hot bath and go
to bed she should have the latter ready to
get into Immediately on leaving the tub.
Do not let the water be so hot as to cause
Precipitation; it should be warm enough
merely to relax. If the tub is long enough
lie at full length most Of the time while in
the water, but in any event do not stay in
more than five minutes. Longer than that
might be weakening.
The bed room should be quite dark, and
the strictest orders should be given that
one Is not to be disturbed. If there are
children in the house they may play in a
room where their noise will not be heard
by the one resting. Telephone calls should
be unheeded; indeed, it is a fact that moth
ing should interrupt the few minutes or
more given up to refreshment. If for any
reason a woman will not take the rest
cure to this extent she may still get some
benefit from lying down. But boots or
shoes must be taken off, and tight clothes
loosened. II she really IS to get from II
what she should Important is 1t that the
room should be darkened. 1t Is Impossible
for facial muscles to relax If bright light
is constantly before them
Few women seem to know the rest that
results from changing the shoes as soon as
one goes indoors. There are two reasons
for this; one Is that in the street are worn
house, and the other that a slight diff
ference in shapes permits Of pedal cords and
| muscles relaxing Shoes for the street
should never be worn indoors any longer
than it takes to change them.
One of the fundamental principles of rest
is that the person shall not be disturbed.
One expecting to be called. or even called
unexpectedly, does not give up thoroughly.
And it must not be forgotten that rest,
real, refreshing, youth-giving heaith-re-
storing rest is of the nerves as well as the
body