Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — She Becomes Tired to Death. [ARTICLE]

She Becomes Tired to Death.

One great reason why American women of the great middle class sc soon lose high health and the charm of youthful bloom is the fact that they are so weary of the routine of daily life—absolutely tired to death. To go from one piece of housework to another or to the sewing-room without that brief interval of rest which relaxes the tension of the nerves that accompanies any unwonted or vexatious occupation is literally the commission of slow suicide. A rocking-chair in the kitchen or a lounge in the dining-room, with a newspaper-rack or book-shelf Within •reach, is the best kind of restorative for the overtaxed body. To stop at some possible interval of work only long enough to secure the momentary relaxation which enables one to draw a long, free breath is the most sensible tonic possible in the midst of the long day’s work. Let no old-fash-ioned “thorough housekeeper” whose nerver / r e “worn to fiddle-strings” declare against such shiftlessness. Scientists'’say the chemist will dominate' - coming inventions. All our fuel Will presently be furnished in the form of gas. In a quarter of a century more we shall wonder why man was ever such a fool as to carry coal into the house and burn it