FOR JADED NERVES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 90, 13 October 1923, Page 14

FOR JADED NERVES

KNITTING AS A SUCCESSFUL

TONIC.

"For jaded nerves—one ball of yarn and two knitting needles, every hour until relieved. Children in proportion to age." This is the prescription doctor^ are giving nowadays in cases of nervousneas. Needless to say, the yarn and needles are not to be taken internally adds the New York "World." Senator Royal S. Copeland endorses tha prescription given above. "For jromen especially," t)r. Copeland said, "knitting is. to be recommended in mildly nervous cases. These cases may simply be the the result of wrong habits, rather than of any serious organic disturbance. The intense speed at which modern life is sustained; the increasing desire of a woman to have both a home and 'a career; the wear and tear of city' life, and the fact that people nowadays seem to have lost the power of intelligent relaxation, all tend to bring on a depleted nervous condition. The intensely busy woman who does not know how to relax should take up knitting. The occupation is restful, and at the same time satisfies the nervous craving to do (something. Women even more than men are apt to be too introspective, to think about themselves and their mental processes. When they are told to relax they carry out the physical part of it by lying quietly in a darkened room, perhaps, but their mental activity becomes keener, and they spend the time of enforced physical rest torturing their minds with memories of what might have been and what probably will l>e. The result is, of course, that they got up nioro nervous and taut then they wei-e before they tried to rest."