r or lie down on the sofa or to go
right to bed and go to sleep. Don't do it.

Get some entire, active change for your brain, if it is only for
fifteen minutes or half an hour. If you live in the city, even to go to
walk and look into the shop windows is better than nothing. In that way
you get fresh air, and if one knows how to look into shop windows
without wanting anything or everything they see there, then it is very
entertaining.

It is a good game to look into a shop window for two or three minutes
and then look away and see how well you can remember everything in it.
It is important always to take shop windows that are out of one's own
line of work.

If you live in the country, a little walk out of doors is pleasanter
than in the city, for the air is better; and there is much that is
interesting, in the way of trees and sky, and stars, at night.

As you walk, make a conscious effort to look out and about you. Forget
the work of the day, and take good long breaths.

When you do not feel like going out of doors, take a story book--or
some other reading, if you prefer--and put your mind right on it for
half an hour. The use of a really good novel cannot be overestimated.
It not only serves as recreation, but it introduces us to phases of
human nature that otherwise we would know nothing whatever about. A
very great change from the day's work can be found in a good novel and
a very happy change.

If the air in the theaters were fresher and good seats did not cost so
much a good play, well acted, would be better than a good novel.
Sometimes it freshens us up to play a game after the day's work is
over, and for those who love music there is of course the greatest rest
in that. But there again comes in the question of cost.

Why does not some kind soul start concerts for the people where, for a
nominal admission, the best music can be heard? And why does not some
other kind soul start a theater for the people where, for a very small
price of admission, they can see the best plays and see them well acted?

We have public libraries in all our cities and towns, and a librarian
in one large city loves to tell the tale of a poor woman in the slums
with her door barred with furniture for fear of the drunken raiders in
the house, quietly reading a book from the public library.

There are many similar stories to go with that. If we had really good
theaters and really good concerts to be reached as simply and as easily