as the books in our public libraries, the healthy influence throughout
the cities would be proportionately increased. The trouble is that
people cater as much to the rich with their ideas of a national theater
as the theatrical syndicate itself.

I could not pretend to suggest amusements that would appeal to any or
every reader, but I can make my point clear that when one is tired it
is healthy to have a change of activity before going to rest.

"Oh," I hear, "I can't! I can't! I am too tired."

I know the feeling.

I have no doubt the man who wrote for nearly two days had a very strong
tendency to go right to bed, but he had common sense behind it, and he
knew the result would be better if he followed his common sense rather
than his inclination. And so it proved.

It seems very hard to realize that it is not the best thing to go right
to bed or to sit and do nothing when one is so tired as to make it seem
impossible to do anything else.

It would be wrong to take vigorous physical exercise after great brain
or body fatigue, but entire change of attention and gentle exercise is
just what is needed, although care should always be taken not to keep
at it too long. Any readers who make up their minds to try this process
of resting will soon prove its happy effect.

A quotation from a recent daily paper reads, "'Rest while you work,'
says Annie Payson Call,"--and then the editor adds, "and get fired,"
and although the opportunity for the joke was probably thought too good
to lose, it was a natural misinterpretation of a very practical truth.

I can easily imagine a woman--especially a tired out and bitter
woman--reading directions telling how to work restfully and exclaiming
with all the vehemence of her bitterness: "That is all very well to
write about. It sounds well, but let any one take hold of my work and
try to do it restfully.

"If my employer should come along and see me working in a lazy way like
that, he would very soon discharge me. No, no. I am tired out; I must
keep at it as long as I can, and when I cannot keep at it any longer, I
will die--and there is the end."

"It is nothing but drudge, drudge for your bread and butter--and what
does your bread and butter amount to when you get it?"

There are thousands of women working to-day with bodies and minds so
steeped in their fatigue that they cannot or will not take an idea
outside of their rut of work. The rut has grown so deep, and they have
sun