GET OUT!

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1900

Good Housekeeping.

I MEAN it. Get out into the open air these glorious, summer days, every housewife in the land!

“Oh, yes!” responds some overworked woman, “it’s easy enough to advise us to get out into the open air; but after having been on my feet all the forenoon and half the afternoon, I’m too tired to go out anywhere, even if I didn’t have to sit down and sew every minute till time to get supper!”

Very true; and the sewing you have to do is no pretty fancywork, but coarse trousers to patch, little garments to mend, and endless stocking-darning. But don’t sit down in the kitchen to do it. It is the bounden duty of every practical housewife to stay out of that apartment all she can. You need a change from the atmosphere of work which must inhere even in the most well-ordered kitchen. Take your mending basket and sewing chair and go out in the yard, somewhere under God’s blue heaven, and let the fresh air and sunshine, and all the soothing influences of nature, charm and rest you, and make you forget for a while the indoor cares. Outdoor air is at once a tonic and a nervine. It acts on both mind and body.