The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-22
WHY WOMEN SHOULD PLAY.
Change Means Health, and Sanity IS
Cheap at Any Price.

| S"S@P at ANY Price,
Most people work too hard; and few
people know how to play: and really.
while all work and no pia may make
I'm dull, it will almost surety send her
to the madhouse or the grave, says Err
man j. Ridgway in The DeIineator for
September. Nd one works To the best
| advantage till he has learned to enjoy
his work; bur no one can work all the
| time, and enjoy 1t. II isn't human.
We are many sided by nature, and de
mand many-siled life. Think that
over.
There are a hundred ways a woman
can play and have more real fun than
when she was a girl, and she ought
to do 1t if she does not.
Some women do. Their lives are full
Of a succession Of deep joys, and they
shirk no responsibility, either. Their
deepest joys come in fulfilling respon-
sibilities. So often our feelings de
pend entirely on our own attitude.
But there are women bound TO the
wheel who seem unable to break the
bands. For them am writing. Break
away.
Get far enough away, and stay away
long enough, to see just what your life
was like.
II is well enough to look out for
Jack, but don't forget to look out for
yourself, and don't let Jack forget to
look out for you.
Now, what would you like to do this
August?
Very well. do it.
You can't?
Nonsense! Why can't your
Money!
Borrow it.
What! Borrow money to play with?
Certainly the fact that you are scan
daliEed at the thought is sure sign
that you ought to do it. You are set
ting too much store by money. Blow
some of 1t, just to show you are still
boss.
Go back to the old home of your
youth. There is nothing that helps
you to drop off the years like that.
Look UP the boys and girls, and talk
over old times. Hunt up the hooks
and haunts. and live over some of the
dear times.
You viii come back to your work
with new zest. But you can't get
away? knew you would say that.
One OF those indispensable folks,
Why can't you get away?
Can't leave the children? If they are
very young you can, or If they are well
along. But If you don't feel like leav-
ing them. take them along. The whole
bunch? Certainly. Can't leave Jack?
Take him along too, IL you must be
such baby about him. but if he is one
OF the regular, dependable always at
home kind, you'd better go without
him. You see enough of him.
But the dog, and the cat, and the /
horse, and the COW, and the chickens,
and the lawn. and the house, and
Hold on! Leave the whole business |
with the neighbors. You wouldn't |
presume?
1t isn't presumption. That's what /
neighbors are for, dear lady. IL your
life has counted at ali In the comnun
tty In which you live, you have a host
of neighbors who are just wishing for
chance to do something for you. lust |
waiting to be asked. There is lot /
OF nelghborliness going to waste be-
cause people are falsely proud.
IL you were sick, would the neigh
bors help? Don't you suppose they
would rather help you well, and help
you keep well?
You would like to do that for your
neighbors, wouldn't you? There you /
are.
Now, let them do 1t for you; and
next time you can look after their
chickens and things while they go
away for good time.
Now. don't say you can't. Just do
1t. Or. If YOU have had your vacation,
or prefer to take l. later, show this
paper to neighbor, and tell her you /
would like to do as much for her.
A good long rest, completely re-
moved from all associations with your
everyday work as often as once d
year, is the best investment man or
woman can make in the securities of
health, happiness and company