Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1911 — Resting Must Be a Business. [ARTICLE]

Resting Must Be a Business.

Will M. Ross, a well-known writer of Stevens -Point, Wis., who Is himself a cured consumptive, holds that unless resting becomes a business to the tuberculosis patient, he might as well give up his fight for health. “The period of Infection with tuberculosis,” he says, “Is not a vacation. It is a twenty-four-hour-a-day job. True it is a period of idleness, but one of intelligent, directed idleness. The day’s work should consist of rest; rest should be the only business on hand. The light exercise, or hour of reading, Bhould be considered as the reward of a good day’s work, like the evening of slippered ease to the tired business men at the end of the day. This recreation, however, should be considered only as an incidental result of the patient's work, not the main object.”