Year: 1871

not like mems work. They know what


a days work is, and commonly tax


themselves accordingly,-wed do neither,


partly because our work is no two days


alike, and partly because we are much


more liable to Interruptions even by


visitors or by children. They set about


their days work coolly, and stop when


they have finished tive set about


ours intently strain every nerve and


muscle to get one job done, and keep


the brain busy meanwhile about what


must be done next. When a woman


goes through the morning and middle


of the day in this sort of tearing style,


she is used up, fit for nothing; while if


she had gone on coolly and deliberately


she would have accomplished much


more in the course of the day, or GER


tainly in succession of days. This is


especially hard on the nerves. 1t is not


an easy matter to correct the habit of


working in this style. Frequent re-
minding ones self will do much, but is


with or without that, we find ourselves


growing tired, We should sit down and


rest at once, half an hour perhaps, no
matter what doing; and then resume
our work more deliberately. This will
not be easy, and there will be times
when it will seem impossible, but if we
are resolute it can be done much oftener
than we viii at first suppose. This is
far better than to work on till we get
through and then rest, for by that time
we are often too tired to rest well at all.
1t is not hurtful to become moderately
tired, but there isa point beyond which
the exhaustion of both nervous and
muscular force brings serious injury,
and about this we may judge for our
selves, or at least not allow the demands
of others for our work to warp our
judgment.


By six or seven o'clock at the latest
We should absolutely lay aside all work
in which we feel any special interest.
Reading, knitting, singing, playing
things that we can do or not with in
difference, are the only pursuits we
should allow ourselves. We would even
do well to initiate the absolute repose of
the husband and brother, though the
putting the children to bed, the closing of
the house and the premonitions of to-
mOrrow's baking or washing will often
prevent our doing that very fully. The
wearied brain must rest, and the social
ties and amenities of the evening fami-
ly circle will prove its very best I'M
bending.


Then be sure to retire early. Dio
Lewis says that he has found this rule
Indispensable in his school for
young ladies. Many a maid or matron
has robbed herself of early bloom, and
grown thin and worn for lack of an hour
or two more of sleep before midnight.
Some take this time to read after the
children and husband have retired, say
ing it is "all the time they can get"
Others think it necessary to devote these
hours to their sewing. know one dear
woman who always will insist on sit
ting up to finish off any garment nearly
done; and dearly enough has she paid
for this "sin of finishing off, as her fam
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be taken from sleep for such purposes,
it is better to take it in the morning.
Such change of hours should be made
but when made it pays well.


Nine o'clock is a good hour for all
hard working women to go to bed, but
if we grow sleepy go earlier. Above
all things we should not allow ourselves
to nod or doze before retiring. Of all
forlorn moments in ones life, know
Of none so utterly desolate as that which
comes to the person who must "wake
up and 60 to bed" Besides, an imper-
feet nights rest often follows such in
lulgence, and the subject rises already
weary before commencing the work of
the day. A nap in the middle of the
lay, if it be not too long, will be of a
lecided benefit to the tired woman. The
great difficulty is that it should not be
taken soon after dinner, and before din
ner We are apt to be busy.


But whatever we do, we must be rea-
use common sense, and under
stand ourselves. Perhaps sometime we
will talk further en- these topics OF work
md health.-Home and Health.