YOUR LEISURE TIME.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 2

YOUR LEISURE TIME.

Supposing the time ever came when the world's Work could be done by everybody in four hours of the twenty-four, would you know what to do with your leisure? Do you know now what to do with it? Sometimes one hears people talk of a "pastime" or of "killing time"—killing the most precious thing we have, when life at the longest is so short! ** IV ill people ever learn to use leisure without boredom, and to make it even more productive than working hours? Leisure should be spent in two ways—it should provide rest and it should give refreshment. Very few people need physical rest nearly so much as mental refreshment; most of us, in our work, use of special sets of muscles, and thus a change of work Sives rest; the clerk, for instance, is much more rested after a day in the office by doing gardening or playing some strenuous game than by lolling in an armchair. The housewife and mother, however, is using almost all her muscles, her brains, and her nervous force all day, and to her rest both of mind and body is absolutely necessary if she is to k ec P herself cheerful and patient and able to cope with the conflicting human personalities in her home.