The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-30
Edited by David H. Reeder, Chicago.

work, but worry that kills and when one carefully analyzes the sit uation. the reason Is quite apparent. Without worry there would be no overwork. Some there may be who will at once today deny that state ment, but I ask you to look at it from various angles
 The most frequent case of over " ork is the Mother. Whether she has one or dozen children, and wheth- CT in a modern home in the city or in a country home with no modern cOnVeniences, she finds ---IGh to do without servants. Stn2 must at once be wife, mother, cook, housekeeper, washwoman and business manager of the home. In C-=e of sickness she must also be nurse; she must be neighbor, a social unit, a mender of clothes and darner of socks; and un- less she is to become back number she must read nd keep abreast with the times. She must help the chil- dren with their lessons; and I regret to Say that she is not 1nfrequentIy called upon to do a portion of the mems work on the farm, not only the smaller jobs of carrying water, and wood, but milking the cows and caring for the poultry and garden.
 No slave ever had a harder task or was required to make more actual physical effort. and yet in spite of these manifold duties an average wife and mother would retain a fair degree of physical health and vigor fr,, worry.
 The terrible cough that troubles Johnny, Mary's failure to keep up in her class in school and her fondness for a certain worthless young man. the report that Willie was heard to swear and was seen smoking, the mortgage on the home, the loss of the crop, her mothers illness, the high price of clothes, no news from the son thatois in the army; any one or a combination of these various mental disturbers keep her awake far into the night and are vastly mora destructive than the work. As a lne l. ter of fact the woman that has but little physical work may worry all the more intensely and suecumb much more quickly than the woman who has much to do.
 In either case, a knowledge of how to control the mental faculties and refuse to worry is the one essential to retain physical health; to syste- matize work; to refuse to do more than a certain amount each day and let the futare take care of itself is the 4bo+ 1rriH gv,1 body.
 One of the problems of information al discussion at the worlds peace meeting Is to establish an eight hour labor law for all workers. If this law can be made to apply to wives, mothers and maiGs, as well as to far mers, mechanics and business men. it will indeed be the greatest revo- lution this world has ever known, and I shall believe that the millennium has arrived. When the war was at it's worst stage and our Allies were lit orally begging for men, money and food, the people of this country had no time for reading books and no money to spare for buying them, so that we found that income of the Home Health Club, steadily decreas- ing and almost to the vanishing point.
 The most of you know that the expenses of the club are derived from sale of it's boo s, and as one after another of my faithful helpers were called into other work with greater pay, I found an ever increasing bur 1f hot mained. For over three months l worked almost daily from ten to six teen hours; a summer vacation was out of the question, and many times we were from a week to ten days be- hind in our replies to the letters of the sick and suffering.
 After one has been serving hu manity as many years as I have, the powers of endurance are not sup posed to be so great as in the young CT persons, but found that so long as I could control my mental atti- tude I could do the work, digest my food and rest at night as well as ever, but if at any time l was dis turbed at night and should recall the suffering of a poor distracted mother away off in Saskatoon, or a. slckly school teacher in remote village or Texas, or any other thing that would naturally cause one to worry or send out sympathetic thoughts, then I would naturally cause one to " Try or send out sympathetic thoug hts, then I would find it much more 1tf- ficult to get through the next days work and a midday rest and nap, were an absolute necessity.
 Many of Us have proven that work. a tremendous amount of 1t, can be done without injury when worry is dismissed. In fact, if it were not for the worry there would not be so much work. I asked farmer Smith why he worked so hard and he eX- plained that he wanted to raise more hogs. "and why do you want to "a '~a more hogs?" 'They are very proht- able now. and I shall sell them and buy more lal.E Why do you want more land"? "So l can raise more hogs" And do you know, he couldn't understand why I laushed.
 To what work are you a slave Are you trying to get more land to raise more hogs so you can get more land and raise more hogs.
 His imperial highness, your horse, wakes up in the morning, and calls you to come with his breakfast, clean his coat. rub his legs, and provide him with shoes. Your wife places your breakfast on the table and mends your coat. But who serves her? She has earned, and is entitled to receive her freedom. and the best care and attention that you can pro- vide She never will become a drone or a loafer. But she should be pro-