The busier a woman is the more she needs to form the habit of short periods of rest and relaxation during the day. Unfortunately the more necessary the practice the more likely it is.to be disregarded. "Tt is more blessed to give than to receive" applies most pointedly to advice, but if a busy, nervous woman will only try this system honestly for a month or two she will have to admit that the investment pays good premiums.
Everybody who has ever felt harassed and driven by insistent responsibilities knows how peculiarly exasperating it is to be told to take time to rest. It seems a positive insult to suggest that the work of the world could go on without your own bustling, worried supervision. We realize that it is safer to advise the public in this impersonal way than to suggest to our dearest friend that she is ruining her temper and injuring her health by refusing to rest at times during the day. nervous breakdown seems as far off as the end of the world but all too frequently.the motherly '"'couldn't be spared" from for an hour is packed off to™the nursing home for a month.
Moreover, even if one can manage to stave off actual illness, one's actual efficiency suffers with the
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