KNITTING FOR NERVES.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1415, 13 October 1923, Page 3

KNITTING FOR NERVES.

“For jaded nerves—one hall of yarn and two knitting needles, every hour until relieved. Children in proportion to age.” This is the prescription doctors are giving nowadays in cases of nervousness. Needless to say, the yarn and needles are not to he taken internally, adds the New York World. Senator Royal S. Copeland said, “Knitting is to he recommended in mildly neryous cases. These cases may simply be the result of wrong living 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 t,o 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, hut their mentelj 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 would he. The result is, of course, that they got up more nervous and taut than they were before they tried to rest.”