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.