Who has not seen a tired woman work harder and harder, when she was tired, until she has worn herself to a state of nervous irritability and finally has to succumb for want of strength?
Who has not seen this same tired woman, the moment she gets back a little grain of strength, use it up again at once instead of waiting until she had paid back her principal and could use only the interest of her strength while keeping a good balance in reserve?
"I wish my mother would not do so many unnecessary things," said an anxious daughter.
A few days after this the mother came in tired, and, with a fagged look on her face and a fagged tone in her voice, said: "Before I sit down I must go and see poor Mrs.Robinson.I have just heard that she has been taken ill with nervous prostration.

Poor thing! Why couldn't she have taken care of herself ?" "But, mother," her daughter answered, "I have been to see Mrs.
Robinson, and taken her some flowers, and told her how sorry you would be to hear that she was ill." "My dear," said the fagged mother with a slight tone of irritation in her voice, "that was very good of you, but of course that was not my going, and if I should let to-day pass without going to see her, when I have just heard of her illness, it would be unfriendly and unneighborly and I should not forgive myself." "But, mother, you are tired; you do need to rest so much." "My dear," said the mother with an air of conscious virtue, "I am never too tired to do a neighborly kindness." When she left the house her daughter burst into tears and let out the strain which had been accumulating for weeks.
Finally, when she had let down enough to feel a relief, a funny little smile came through the tears.
"There is one nervously worn-out woman gone to comfort and lift up another nervously worn-out woman--if that is not the blind leading the blind then I don't know.

I wonder how long it will be before mamma, too, is in the ditch ?" This same story could be reversed with the mother in the daughter's place, and the daughter in the mother's.

And, indeed, we see slight illustrations of it, in one way or the other, in many families and among many friends.
This, then, is the first answer to any woman's question, "Why am I so nervous ?" Because you do not use common sense in taking exercise, fresh air, nourishment, and rest.
Nature tends toward health.

Your whole physical organism tends toward health.