The Washington times., 1916-01-17
FusSing and Fretting AT
Home Tax Endurance
Of the Business Woman
Work Rest and Play Are the Only Things She Should
. Attempt If She Would Attain Success and
Avoid Inevitable Breakdownin Nerves
Rx wINIFREp BtAcK.

- HE'S zone under-the business
woman. knew she would g
AL month ago 1 saw a light in her
window one night as was pass
lna A little after 10 O'Clock. There she
was. not reading. not loaflng, not sit
, ting in her big chair with q box OF
candy and a magazine and pleasant
open fire-not she She was dsrnins
stockings, and she'd been darning
gloves and before that she'd mended
veil, and before that she'd sewed but
ton on one OF her shoes. and before that
shed sewed up hem On one Of her pet.
tiskirts. And she wasn't ashamed OF u
she was proud Of It! she showed me
the skirt and the pcttlcoat, ana the
Eloyes and the shoe, and was quite
bfazen about tho stockings. She even
pointed out to me how beautifully darn
cd they we're and how many pairs she
could do in an evening,
Aren't you ever tired in the morning.
after doing a nights work like this
said. "Oh, yes" said the business
woman, ''of course j am, but then these
things have got to Be done
My friend, the business woman, stared
at me in a way that showed that was
a fit candidate for a lunatic asylum,
"Why7p she echoed. "Yon wouldn
want me 10 go down town looking IKE
Nan-tlle- Go0d- for n othing, would you?
Not at ALL" l replied as calmly as !
couid ''but-well--but why"
-But-well-but what?' persisted my
friend, the business woman.
Where is that nice little mendlng
woman heard some of the girls talking
about the other dRy?" l asked. Shes
got a day off during the week. Why
don't you send for her to come UP here
and have her to do all this up in one
day and get rid OF it all? 1t wouldn' I
cost YOU but a dollar and a half to do
II, and you'd be ticlIied to death to have
Il done" My friend, the business wom-
an, looked at me reproachfully, almost
with bitterness.
What do you think am" she said.
"a millionaire?'
/ know that same woman doesn't
think anything of paying 80 cents for
box Of candy or Q bunch Of violets, or
Of buying O couple of matinee tickets
and taking one of her friends, or II
doing anything that she really wants to
half. She never gives 1t another
thought. But to rest with 1t. to get
some actual, real benefit-perish the
thought! Not while she can sit up TILL
midnight and wear out her eyes and her
mind and her back. and. worst OF all,
her nerves and her endurance.
Work, Rest, and Play.
II took me tgood long time to find
Hut that endurance is just az real a
duality as physical strength. You can
lift a little wicker table easily enough.
hut when you come to try to carry the
dIudng-room table on your back, eome-
things going to break, and generally
II Isn't the table.
Endurance Of q mental sort is just
exactly as limited as the physical kind.
You can't carry too many things in
Rour head any more than you can carry
100 many things on your back. without
breaking somo or all Of them.
Ny friend, the business woman, had
3Ist exactly SO much strength and go
bmuCh brain force and so much vitality.
Row, instead OF saving 1t all. every
single hit of 1t, tor her work, she frit-
terB 1t away on lot of little fool things
like stocking daFning and ordinary
things that she could hire done for her
at almost nothing week.
The most SUCCESSFUL business woman
4 know says she never does anything
except three things-she works. she
. rests and she plays.
She never fusseS, or fiddles" or frets.
She's great and shining success. v
wonder II her three divisions OF l!te
and energy haven't something 70 do
with it,
What would my friend. the business
woman, think OF a business man who
spent his time and energy mending his
coat or sewing the buttons on his snoes,
instead of calling in the tailor and hav-