Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-07-15
A Word of Counsel to the Ner-
VOuS Women

avoid haste and hurry" says DR.. S. S.
McComb, in an article in Harper's Bazaar,
"for these are the things that confuse
the brain and make clear judgment Inn
possible. The besettiig temptation OF
the nervous woman is to hurry from one
duty to another In breathless haste at
tempting many tasks. yet achieving none
of them with dignity or freedom. When
such a temptation arises, call halt.
Remain quiet for a few minutes; sum-
mon back your self-possession and re-
fuse to do In one hour work which should
be spread over two. Habituate yourself
to the control of the emotions. Nothing
makes such havoc OF the nervous system
and nothing DISCREPANCIES the inner life
like anger. fear or worry. These forces
must be quelled II the soul is to main
tain its supremacy and nervous peace Is
to be enjoyed; and this is done, not, in
deed, by a fiat of the will, but by sub
stituting for these destructive emotions
such constructive ones as love, aspira-
tons after some ideal. waith in God and
reverence for the divine order OF life"
This sensible advice arrested by atten-
ton Il is as true as gospel. Too many
women are given to exhaustive persist
once in hose work or needlework to the
detriment Of both mind and body.
Is not your soil of more Importance than
these things which perish with the
using? A tired woman is almost obliged
to be fretful and her fretfulness gets into
the whole family, from the baby up, and
this fretfulness besets a diseased habit
of mind until II becomes chronic. / knew
q woman once who became so querelous
and unhappy because things did not al
ways go her way that Ii seemed there
was nothing at the end OF 1t but the in
sane asylum for her. Her husband and
children were in q continual state of
unrest, as to what she would do next,
and she was reasonably sure to do some
thing that was disagreeable.
There are some poor things who are
overcropped with children-and conse-
quently enjoy but little leisure and less
of rest, but the common sense of such
a situation would indicate that every
thing should be done to give her rest
and leisure There are selfish husbands
and undutiful children, quite enough to
fill the average household full Of care
and dissatisfaction, but woman who
is thus overcropped must certainly
adopt some plan to save heo health and
strength IL she is not willing to take
her final trip to the cemetery.
There are scores of such women who
might have a broom or a scrubbing mop
set up as a grave-marker and who died
literally for the lack of common sense in
taking care OF ,neir own souls and bod
les.
have heard husbands complain Of
such women In unmeasured terms Of
dissatisfaction and dismay. They
can't be induced they say to act diff
ferently, and with such contrary pulling
there Is bound to come an end to
something with either death. the asylum
or maybe a divorce and broken family
before long.
Don't you forget it my dear woman,
you will be so easily forgotten when
you fret yourself into the grave that
you would be willing to pinch yourself
for your own folly
God gave you only one life, one time
to live, and you may rest assured you
have much more to live for than 10
devote such senseless toll over non-es-