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Show HOW WOMEN REST. Jlow different men and women indulge in-dulge themselves in what is called a ps-tins? spell: "I pucss I'll fit down and mnd theee stockings and rest "awhile," ays the wife, but her husband throws himself back upon the easy lounge or pits back in his arm chair. The result is that his whole body gains full benefit of the half hour he. allows himself from work, and the wife only receives that indirect help which comes from change of occupation. A physician . would tell her that taking even ten minutes' rest i:i a horizontal position, as a change from standing or sitting at work, would prove more beneficial to her than any of her makeshifts at resting. Busy women' have a habit of keeping on their feet just as long- as they can, in spite of backaches and warning pains. As they stuw older they see the folly of perniitcinff such drafts upon their strength, and learn to take things easier let. what will happen. They "I used to think I must do thus find so, but I've grown wiser and learned to slight things." The first years of housekeeping are truly the hardest, for untried and unfamiliar cares are almost daily thrust upon the mother and home maker. , |