marriage, so they just scramble through their home duties and let things " take their 

 chance." In neither case are homes really happy, though in the former they are well 

 kept ; in the latter they are not. 



REASONABLE RECREATION IS A DUTY TO SELF AND FAMILY. 



V"* 



Make a rule that one hour out of the twenty-four shall be entirely given up to 

 this process of restoring the powers and preserving your elasticity and efficiency. 

 One day the best form of recreation may be an hour on your bed. Another day it 

 may be a chat with a friend ; another day it may be found in a book or newspaper ; 

 or in retri mining a hat ; or in tending a garden-plot ; or in a game with the children ; 

 or in making a sketch or picking out a melody on the piano. 



VARY THE FORM OF YOUR RECREATION, 



but never omit the duty of finding time for it. Women are so apt to forget that duty 

 to self as well as duty to family is an element in healthful efficiency. Besides this 

 personal aspect, bear another point in mind. If you want to influence your young 

 people through the most critical years of their lives (from fourteen to twenty-four), 

 you must show yourself able to enter into their pleasures, and to share more or 

 less in their hobbies and pursuits; to discuss with them topics of the day or their 

 favourite books, to be their comrade as well as their parent or guardian. Perhaps 

 this argument in favour of recreation will appeal to you more strongly than the 

 purely personal reasons given above. 



I am strongly of opinion that one cause for the still prevalent contempt for 

 domestic duties and growing indifference to the claims of home and family may 

 be traced to the accepted idea that a woman's work is never done (whereas in 

 all other occupations there are stated hours of employment), and the fact that if 

 a house-mother " does her duty " she is cut off from social life ; while the mother 

 herself is too apt to consider an overfatigued existence to be her appointed lot 

 in life and not to give sufficient thought to its possible alleviation. 



TOO BUSY TO SHARE IN HER CHILDREN'S AMUSEMENTS, 



she gets out of touch with their tastes, and they seek sympathy and companionship 

 elsewhere. Do not lose sight of this fact : Rest from work and suited recreation 

 means a direct saving of the vital powers and a consequent prolongation of produc- 

 tive and useful working-days. 



(III.) WHY IT IS OUR DUTY TO PRACTISE THE ART OF RIGHT LIVING. 



(1.) Because we owe a duty to ourselves. 



(2.) Because we owe a duty to our homes. 



(3.) Because we owe a duty to our neighbours. 



(4.) Because we owe a duty to our Empire. 



(5.) Because we owe a duty to the Race. 



Life is designed to yield results ; man is not framed to be a mere cumberer 

 of the ground. The root of efficient life lies in the home. As is the home so is 

 the product. 



THE BALANCE OF THE BODY 



hangs on the quality of the nature it inherits from its ancestors and the surround- 

 ings in which it lives. 



The researches of the last few years have brought ample confirmation of the 

 teaching of Moses: the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children to the 

 third and fourth generations. 



The children now being reared in our homes are the parents of the next genera- 

 tion. According to our care of their bodies, according to the use we train them to 

 make of their will-power, according to the ideals we set before them, will they 

 be prepared to hand on the torch of human life burning with greater brilliance and 



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