Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-07-06
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
Regulation Of food is ofprimary conse-
quence towards the formation ofa good
constitution. The most common error
IN relation to it, consists in the use OF
too much food. Nature has given US
organs OF certain capacity, Oh the
presumption that, being called on to
manual labor we should then require
larger quantity Of food. Muscular
efforts exhaust the strength and re.
quirc renovation by nutritious substan-
ces; but when the muscular efforts
are small the quantity Of nourishment
required is comparatively trifing and
II in consequence Of the capacity Of
the gastic organ, a large quantity is
taken, the result will be pernicious,
directly or indirectly. Parents are
uneasy when children eat but little,
and would encourage them to eat a.
gainst their inclination. NJ mistake
can be more perniciOus to health; and
preserved in disease will infallibly re-
suit from it. When the child wants
appetite instead of being compelled to
take foot, it must be compelled to take
exercise, unless positively i'll, and then
it must be compelled to take med,-
cine.
The quantity ofliquld gwen to young
persons is decidedly injurious. The
principal agent in the digestion pro-
cess. is a solvent juice. The more this
As~diluted with fluids, the weaker it is,
and the less perfect the digestive ac-
ton. Animal food should be spar.
ingly taken by young persons who use
little exercise IL children generally do
not needit. Bread and milk, and fruit,
are the best articles for those who do
not labor. Wine is highly pernicious
to young persons. 1t is a slow but GER
tain poison.-Before the body has at
tanned its full growth, there is an over
plus Of excitability and il to this is ad-
ded the powerful agency of wine or
arg other stimulating drink, the con-
stitution cannot fail to be hurt. Fe-
males are more injured BY stimulating
drinks than males, because their sys-
tenn is more susceptible Of physical ex-
element. The nervous power is more
energetic; the pulse and respiration
are quicker; and the Development Of
animal heat greater. Hence / sup
pose, it is, that they required less COW
ering in cold weather, and suffer more
Inconvenience from the heat than the
other sex.
Females are unfortunately COMPEL
ed by fashion to adopt partial and I'M
equal coverings Of the body. A part
Of the chest is very much covered
while another part is wholly exposed.
The dangers which spring from fashion
are more easily pointed out, than a.
voided. They serve at least to place
in clearer light the necessity of inur-
ing young females to exposure, and
invigorating them by exercise.
There is one part Of female dress,
the dangers Of which have been made
known, but which still, fear, contin-
es to be practlscd; mean the girting
the chest.
In what notions of beauty this prac-
tice took origin, l am unable to dis
cover. The angular projections form
ed by tightly drawn cords are in direct
opposition to the models ofGrecian or
Roman beauty. In the flowing robes
ofthe Juno, the vesta and Diana every
part is light and graceful Nor have
| been able to discover, in the repre-
sentatives ofthe Muses. and G races, any
habiliment which would lead us to
believe they wore stays or corsets. The
taste Of the other sex is uniformly op-
posed to the wasp like waist and the
boarded chest. ", stranger, as it
seems. there is scarcely Young lady
OF fifteen who has not imbibed a dispo-
sition for this species of application,
and scarcely well dressed lady ofany
age, whose chest is not contined in
such a manner as to impede the mo-
tons OF respiration and the free mus
cies OF the upper extremitles. 1t is
true we are constantly told that they
are uncomfortable without these ap-
pendages; but this only shows what
great inconvenience we can by habit
become accustomed to. The Indian
nations who consider the flattened
forehead to be beauty. confine the
heads Of their infants between two pie
ces OF board corded together, and the