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VOL XXII NO 44
VIENNA, GA. THURSDAY, JUNE s 10 1004
TERMS $1 A YEAR CASH
Tjfrej3apertor^thisj;drtionJs^de|ayedJnJ^heJr^^ morning and thejpreas^star^atonce
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN the advisability of this by making
most persons sleepy immediately
REST, AND HOW TO TAKE IT
Letter No. 17 of a series of 20. j
Copyrighted 1904 by ChrUtine Horrick.
The time seems to have come
when American women have to be
'taught how to rest. They have
learned nearly everything else, jbut
resting is something a good many of
( them have never had time to aoquire.
There is a saying that Providence
looks after the lame and the lazy.
The implication is, apparently, that
the healthy and the industrious
know howto tike care of themselves.
The fact remains, however, that
they seldom do. They go until
they drop and never seem to have
the least idea t^at they are overdoing
until they give oi.t entirely,
One of the first things to bo
learned about resting is that it is
like some other remedies for the ills
of this life. It is worth twice as
much if taken at an early stage as it
is if delayed until the disease has
had time to gain ground. The true-
philosophy of resting is to test
before one is really tired. To know
when to stop is as important a part
after the mid day meal. While the
process of digestion is going on
thereshould no a temporary cessation
of work. A rest of fifteen minutes
or half-an hour pays lor . itself
beforo the day is out. aTho woman
should go off by herself, loosen any
tignt olothing she may be wearing,
atretoh out on a couch, in adarkonod
room, shut her eyes and lie still for
a fjxcd time. Even if she does not
go to sleep she is sure to be restod.
If she is nervous and excited she
would do well to have some book of
mild interest at hand in whioh she
can read for ten of the thirty minutes
she has allotted herself. This will
oalm her and fit her for the sleep or
rest the is trying to take.
But this is not all she requires.
A woman cannot rest sunplv by
stopping work and staying in the
house. She needs a great deal more
than that. She needB to get out of
the house, and when she goes out
she must do something that is good
for her. Active exercise is as much
a desideratum of rest as absolute
in basketry, and while the unintiated
may not be able to oomprehond tho
joys of this particular form off
employment, it is a faot that there
are many who revol in it. There
are others who do bead work
and others still who have some one
of the many crafts that have drifted
into women’s lives or late years. It
makes no difference what a woman
does,—whether she embroiders or
weaves baskets or bead chains or
hammers brass or burns wood,—so
long as it diverts hor. If she
doesn’t do this she would better
play oards or tiddledy-winks. The
objoot is of no importance,-.“the
play’s the thing.”
The woman should play in other
ways, too. She should go to see
repose.
Here then are two essentials of
of life’s schooling as to learn whore, j.Qgt, repose and outdoor exeroise.
to begin. Indeed, the beginning j There are ethers. One among them
-often presents itself, while the | jj, a pet recreation,
stopping place requires searobmg | \y omen used to find this sort of
for. thing in embroidery and worsted
Our Puritan conscience,-
tnany lines a boon, in so many otLers
a bane,—is .one of the obstacles in
bte way of stopping in time. The
average busy woman who wants to
rest, feels, just because it would be
an agreeable sensation, that it must
somehow be wrong’ She will make
surethat she is as tired as sIiq can
be before she lays aside her work
and takes the few moments’ repose
she may need, But, bv the time si
comes to tint stage she is at a in.-.-i i«l
of fatigue when a few iiiomoui.,'
rest will do little lor her. tier first
fancied economy was a mistake,
and she is paying for it, as one dors
for all mistakes.
l.have spoken before in these
columns of the harm done by the
Puritan conscience. Its effect in
making the earnest woman scourge
herself into overwork is perhaps one
FOR A NEW STATE
Representative S. LL Fields of
Dooly has prepared for introduction
in the Georgia legislature a bill
creating a new county, of which
Uordsle is to bo the executive oity.
Thenew county, as proposed by
ill
Mr. Fields, will comprise that
portion of Dooly south of Uiohwood,
about five milos of tho northern
part ol Worth and a portion of
Irwin and Wilcox counties. It will
be about twenty-three milos oast
and west, and about twenty-two
north and Bouth.
This is gotton up to offset the
proposed now county of Hondorson,
the formation of which would work,
it is said, a most serious injury to
Cordole, the busiest oity of South
Georgia.
Speaking of bis bill Mr. Fields
today said: “This does not mean
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+1 . u* iTT* that we are anxious to divide Dooly
things that amuse her,-.; itbe WT bat thftt wo & un gLj® rd £
only the circus, bho^should seej-a DQ put right on tne line of Dooly
good play when she can, hoar good
music when it ctfmes her way,
indulge in such social joys as present
themselves. All hayo their part
injjteaching her to rest,—which""*Tn
its best meaning is a ohango of
occupation. Wnen women have
once mastered the soience of rosting
they will do better work, have
better husbands and smarter
uhildreu and bring the nation {and
tho raoe to a highe. level of health
and happiness than they occupy at
the present.
work. Tlipre are some women who
do that oven now. Others seek it
Cordele nas voted to issue $10,000
worth of bonds for public improve
liiMfr.
between Riohwood and JArabi.
Give Ashburn the territory ••below
Arabi for the now county of
Henderson ana let Ashburn or
Sycamore be the county site.
Then Tifton wants a county. Lot
her have it, and it should bo named.
Herring.
Ana while you have tho molds
hot, lay out a foiv more oounties in
Wiregruss Georgia whore [ they are
wanted. Make us fl populous and
hard to oatoh in tho stride for
progress.
Thon when we have ,tho
'counties, give us>
and the proposed new county of
Henderson. Cordele is unquestion
ably tho logical county silo if a new
county, is to be formed effecting
this section.”
There is no doubt but that a
powerful fight will be made against
outting off the southern portion of
Dooly. It is argued that the pooplo
to the south will acme here for
their goods, and as a matter of
convenience it will be better to
have the county government here, if
a new oohnty is to be formed.
The above in clipped from Satur
day’s Cordele News. “
To which we say. Ilarrah! Give
Cordele hor new county. Let hei’i
A new state. 1-i"*
Out Georgia, in two’ at tno”belt,
Macon being the buckle. For this
now state, jg
Vienna must bo tho oapitol.
On tho spot where tho county
-courthouso UBea to stand, a place
now given to a grassy lown and
pleasuro, lot a statchouso bo ereoted
to oast a million or more, r—i
Vionna> is now m oity of five
thousand'^people, taking Findlay
Riohwood, Drayton and Cordolo for
tho suburbs. ,
Give them all the now counties
they want and we are Bure of the
new state and Vienna will bo tho
oapitol thereuf.
oTho South Georgia conference of
the Womans '^Foreign Missionary
Society will moot, in Cerdolo next
t ke all of that portion of Dooly! year.
of its worst effects. There are many
CORDELE, GEORGIA
women who need to struggle
attain '• a state of saving un-
couscientiousness. Had they tins,
perhaps they might know how’ to
rest without making a special sNnlv
of it. .
Said a young'hmn tho other titty, 1
in my hearing. “I wouldn’t have!
my .itother’s, conscience for any-'!
thing.” “Your 'mother’s con.!
science!” ' I said, “Why? -Sue is |
ore of*the best wotnoii in the world, i
Wha': can she nave on her con
.....I CAN SELL YOUR,
REAL ESTATE OR BUSINE
No Matter Where It Is
•Running soret!” returned the
youth, promptly. “She has,punched
it and picked at it so often-that it is
in ;i dreadful condition. Mine is
just a comfortable callous!”
If more women could establish a
‘•comfortable callous" in ! hen-
consciences it would ho better for
them,--and ore may add. f 01 ’ those
about them. All parties Concerned
would have, more chance to rest.
Or, what might be better still would
be’‘for the women to learn to a; ply
tho’ir conscientiousness to the rest-
problem.
. How many busy women'' n ake a
- point of taking a little map every
afternoon? Nature seems to indicate
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