824 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Take yourself iu haud aud courage begins to replace despoudeucy. 

 When everything is topsy-turvy and your feelings are likewise criss-cross, 

 instead of clouding the day with irritability, or grieving some one by an 

 angry word or unkind tone, try a physical culture remedy. Stand pei*- 

 fectly still for a full minute. Breathe full and deep. Let go the tension 

 in the muscles, loosen that hard-set jaw, smooth the forehead frown. 

 "Let go" physically and the mental let go will follow. 



Let us step lightly over the troubled days and try to find all the 

 pleasures and poetry in our way. We home-makers must try to remember 

 that there is poetry even in soapsuds and clothespins, for there is a poet 

 who says, 



"Her arms asplashing in the suds. 

 Her song a warbling free." 



I don't know who wi'Ote it, but it is quite enough to know that the 

 laundry has been immortalized by at least one poet. Yes, and come to 

 think of it, there's another who sang of the maid hanging clothes in the 

 garden of the royal palace and the black-bird who took her nose for 

 a ripe cherry. 



Household work requires as much thought as any other occupation 

 and thoughtlessness in doing the work occasions unnecessary labor. 

 Often the housewife does not realize that strength can be lost. Nothing 

 we can do will pay so large a dividend as good care of the body. How 

 much are you investing in it? 



Each woman has her own problem, and she needs to study conditions 

 in her own household in order to determine what can be done to make 

 her work easier. It is necessary for a woman to simplify in order to 

 accomplish her work and to keep a bright lookout for the enjoyments and 

 privileges of life. 



Home making is a high art, and it is not necessary that a woman's 

 health and happiness should be sacrificed in doing that which, to do 

 well, is elevating and essential to the comfort and happiness of the 

 human race. 



Let us learn to save our strength before temporary weariness or per- 

 manent break-down necessitates it, aud keep it for the emergencies of 

 life, instead of using it unnecessarily in details when it is in abundance. 



