Il8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



and you will see anxiety written upon their faces. Watch it 

 in a city where there is rushing and turmoil. Relaxation is a 

 thing we are leaving out of our lives. That man who has 

 written that wonderful book called " The Simple Life," is teach- 

 ing relaxation all the time^ relaxation of the spirit. Now 

 relaxation of spirit may come to be relaxation of the body, 

 and the woman in the home needs to learn it ; needs to simply 

 relax and take aw^ay the tension out of her body and learn to do 

 things in an easy comfortable way. When life seems to be full 

 of care she needs to relax and say, " Things will take care of 

 themselves, we will get along all right." We need it in the 

 busy time whon we screw things up still tighter, so we can 

 stand the work. I would suggest, then, relaxation of the 

 nerves, of the muscles of the body. When a woman feels that 

 she has difficult work before her, I would suggest that she go 

 and rest ; have a chair in the kitchen, an easy chair where she 

 may sit down when she is paring the potatoes. After a woman 

 has worked a good many years she learns to do that, and it is 

 to the daughters perhaps that this should be said. After a 

 woman has lost her strength it is very easy for her to learn to 

 do those things, but sometimes it is too late. We need to learn 

 those things while we have our strength. No one need to be 

 ashamed of a chair in the kitchen, no one need to be ashamed 

 to have conditions so nearly right in a kitchen that it is easy to 

 do the work. We have large missions to do upon earth, and 

 we need to have a great deal of ability and competency, and we 

 need to study all the time to be at our best, and we are not at 

 our best when we are tired. We are not at our best when we 

 are working under unfavorable conditions. 



These are merely comments, merely suggestions, which, 

 while as I said before they are not new, we may still well keep 

 in mind. We get into bad habits, we can get into the good 

 habits just as easily. We can get into the habit of keeping 

 cheerful and pleasant, and letting our worries go, saying, " We 

 will do the best we can," and when we do the best we can we 

 have nothing to worry about. 



I want to congratulate you upon the fine opportunities 

 which you have in this organization for meeting shoulder to 

 shoulder and having heart to heart talks once a year, of having 

 an organization where the men and women work together. I 

 don't object to women's organizations, I don't object to men's 



