ough to keep a woman at home a
week or ten days or more, and deprive her of wages which she might have
been receiving, and which she very much needs.

These are the illnesses that are hard to bear.

Many a woman has suffered through an illness like this, which has
dragged out from day to day, and finally left her pale and weak, to
return to her work with much less strength than she needs for what is
before her.

After forcing herself to work day after day, her strength comes back so
slowly, that she appears to go through another illness, on her feet,
and "in the harness," before she can really call herself well again.

There are a few clear points which, if intelligently comprehended,
could teach one how to meet an illness, and if persistently acted upon,
would not only shorten it, but would lighten the convalescence so that
when the invalid returned to her work she would feel stronger than
before she was taken ill.

When one is taken with a petty illness, if it is met in an intelligent
way, the result can be a good rest, and one feels much better, and has
a more healthy appearance, than before the attack.

This effect has been so often experienced that with some people there
is a little bit of pleasantry passed on meeting a friend, in the
remark: "Why, how do you do; how well you look--you must have been ill!"

If we remember when we are taken ill that nature always tends towards
health, we will study carefully to fulfill nature's conditions in order
to cure the disease.

We will rest quietly, until nature in her process toward health has
reached health. In that way our illness can be the means of giving us a
good rest, and, while we may feel the loss of the energy of which the
disease has robbed us, we also feel the good effects of the rest which
we have given to organs which were only tired.

These organs which have gained rest can, in their turn, help toward
renewing the strength of the organs which had been out of order, and
thus we get up from an illness looking so well, and feeling so well,
that we do not regret the loss of time, and feel ready to work, and to
gradually make up the loss of money.

Of course, the question is, how to fulfill the conditions so that this
happy result can be attained.

In the first place, _do not fret._

"But how can I help fretting?" someone will say, "when I am losing
money every day, and do not know how many more days I may be laid up?"

The answer to that is: "If y