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Manawatu Herald, 26 February 1898, Page 4

LTn WOMEN WORKERS. Brain Fatljtuo and Want of Open Air Escrcisa — Precautions and Remedies. In Iheso clays of high brain pressuro it behooves all women to study the simple 2n«w3 of health preservation. Not only those who aro forced to enrn their bread, but .also thoso who endeavor to keep up their social duties and iniprovo themselves intellectually, aro kept hard at work till tho nervous system becomos impaired. Women who do much brain work and are subject to business worries would profit by short rest or sleep daring eaoh day, and this is tho first thing a physician would^prescriba. But the brain will not always submit to enforced idleness instantly an excited worker chooses. For this reason it is best to work off the harassing matter, and, that done, move from tho scene of labor and take a doubled repose. Again, tho doctors point out the folly of forcing tho jaded brain to action by stimulating drafts of any kind and consider submission to nature's cry of exhaustion a wiso discretion. This is the common sonso view, but wanderers in the realms of imagination — poets, fictionists — cannot always enjoy thiswise discretion, else would half tho material for which they have soared or panted bo lost to them. Tho other remedy proposed is to avoid continued brain taxation by a variety of nourishing refreshments every two hours. If we cannot resign work and stimulant is required, it is besfc taken with a nutritive accompaniment, such as beaten up egg, some of tho beef preparations, etc., so that tho L :ain may not be goaded to action indopendcntly of the body. Fatiguo to tho brain weakens the nerves which assist in the formation of tho gastric juice, and consequently tho overworked aro usually martyrs to indigestion The popular habit of taking carbonate of soda or hot water is pronounced by some health authorities a bad one, it being claimed that, although in extreme cases relief is ■ procured, this temporary stimulation of tho digestive organs results subsequently in a greater inertia. The preparations now to bo had, which almost exactly imitate tho action of the gastric juice and contain the active agents of digestion — pepsin, psncreatlve acid, lactic acid, etc.— - are in great favor? but are probably most safely used under a doctor's advice. • But remedies are of no use unless the cause be taken into consideration. Dressmakers, writers, clerks, who are of sedentary habit, suffer from want of exercise and frco access to tho open air. They have cold feet and inactive livers. Naturally a physician will recommend outdoor pursuits, but since these are impossible it is best to consider how a compromise can be affected. The juvenile practice of skipping, though it may appear ridiculous, Is a _Bimp]e way of insuring circulation and the cheapest. For the liver and cold feet it is an excellent remedy— a physical without a mental activity which greatly improves tho appetite. Another advantago in the skipping process is the ease with which it may bo commenced and dropped to suit any given period of leisure. It also saves tho chance of ovorfatigue caused by walking undue distances with a jaded frame. A Cause of Baldness. The latest explanation offered for the \ prevalence of baldness among comparatively young men of the present day is the fact that men have been cutting their hair short now for some generations, with tho | result that its power to struggle on and bo ' reproduced under such conditions has be- I eomo weaker and weaker until it is in danger of complete atrophy. CHINA DECORATION. The Art Amateur Suggests Some Dainty but Simple Designs For China. : A pretty and effective decoration is made by drawing on china a simple flower that can be slightly modeled with a few straight lines— a daisy, for instance. Have all the lines very clear and distinct, separate, not crossing or running together. Then put the wholo in with raising In the daintiest possible manner, and after firing gild as lines only. It is really making a sketch in raised gold, and tor a cup and saucer, on the white china, is very dainty, with gilded rim and handle. Disks can be combined with it with good effect, outlined and filled in in different ways, and (sometimes use a color of enamel. On china the flower can be filled with a lattice of blue enamel made with the tiniest dots, and others outlined with the enamel and gold, but it should be a delicate color and cot used heavily or freely enough to overpower the gold. The heart shaped pin tray shown In the iut, a dainty piece of Belleek, might well » left without any tinting whatever, but HEART SHAPED PIN TRAY. preferred it can be a very faint yellow, nly to make a lemon white, and the uner side a soft pink. Then paint the bios>ms as delicately as possible, using warm ray first. Strengthen the details on the ear side with deep, ricn purple, very thin. !he warm gray will also help to soften It, nd much gray green should be broken > among it. Do not carry the purple uite to the outlines. Keep them very >ft, observing the light and shade of tho hole flower. Put in the leaves with moss green V and gut Iky blue; then shade up with moss J ad brown green, with the loast touch of reeu 7la the darkest parts. Leave the (tinted light gray marking.