Show Why Women are Always Tired I is the common thing nowadays to talk of all men and women who work as being overworked and always tired and always needing rest Why dont they take it Because people do not even want rest unless it costs a good deal of money An oldfashioned in a rocking rock-ing chair with the doors closed and the windows open does not suit modern ailments ments You must go a long way and take an infinite amount of trouble to get proper and suitable rest a sort of rest ala a-la mode and then you are supposed to be ready to rush again into the thickest of the light and meet and conquer every obstacle Why there are fights and win there are obstacles is explained Life is supposed to be easier from the household house-hold point of view than formerty why it is not has not yet been discovered A great deal of breath has been expended in showing how and why living has been made easy but the fact still remains that people take it harder than ever and die of it with less provocation One of the reasons suggested itself the other day when a cloth dress for traveling travel-ing was Pent home It was for a tired woman and it weighed at least fifty pounds I was of heavy serge and it had two skirts one laid in plaits and weighted with Hercules braid and the other laid in close abundant folds over a cose thick quilted mattress and two broad steel rails The sleeves and band at the throat were so tight that it was a question ques-tion of strangulation and the burden of carrying the weight of wool enough to appall a strong mnn I might be supposed sup-posed that could or would exercise some control over their own clothing but they cannot unless they make it themselves the powers that be are obdurate and in Rist that you must carry their reputation for drapery or tournure style upon your jack whether it is equal to the strain or I not How delightful the rockingchair I and the straight cool dress of linen or I lawn seem in retrospect Perhaps they I still exist in remote districts I they do let us advise the possessors to make much I of them Jennie June |