Why Women Break Down by Inter-Ocean

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1886

Why Women Break Down.

By Inter-Ocean

THERE is little doubt that women are breaking down more rapidly than men, because they allow themselves to take less real rest. When a man drops his business, he drops it. When a woman lets go of any work she may have in mind, she ties it to her apron strings, as it were. She has been taught through long ages of training that it is a high crime and a misdemeanor to let anything escape her mind, so she is constantly, when she is at rest, pinching herself or prodding herself to see if she hasn’t forgotten something. In this way she carries the burden of her work into her resting hours, and sits down among the roses of relaxation with her foot on the treadle of the grindstone of prosy drudgery.

If men kept their noses to the grindstone with womanly persistence, they would be nervous and irritable beyond compare. If women would get their own consent to rest, they would have better complexions, better stomachs, and a happier life.—Inter-Ocean.