Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-12-04

; with her little boy; they move at a regu
lar, slow pace. When a mile from home
ne becomes languid, complains of fatigue
fretS, and then cries. His mother break
branch from tree, strips off the leaves
calls 1t horse, and gives him twlg TO
whip. He goes scampering off upol
1t, laughing and shouting, as if Their
We're no such thing in the world as ia
tigue The mother has applied a menta
stimulus
Lucy has room to sweep. From in
diligence in indolent habits, every exer
ton has become painful to her. She ha
hardly been out of her chair all day. bu
she exclaims, 'Oh, how | detest sweep
lng-it tires me So Lucy lacks the
mental stimulus.
Sarah comes in from nutting She has
been half the day on her feet, but wher
she sees her pale mother sweeping thu
room, Oh, mother she exclams, .pray
let me do it, and she does it without ef
tort or pain. Mental stimulus, or per
haps we should say, heart stimulus, made
her insenslbe to the previous fatigue.
There is, a story of an eastern king
who was suffering disease, the conse
quence of incidence and indulgence. His
physician gave him a racket, and told him
the medicine was concealed in the handle
and that it would pass into his body thro
the palms of his hands, when he had oo1
into perspiration with playing The
king exercised with it every day, and was
cured.
So Important says DR.. Combe, lis
nervous for mentaD stimulus, that instanc
es have occurred of strong mental emo.
lions having instantaneously given life
and Vlgor to paralytic limbs. This has
happened in cases of shipwrecks, fires
and sea fights
Nature connects pleasure with exer-
else. See young animals at their gam
bols, and listen 10 the child shouting a,
his play. Nature bids them do so. and
grown people should not interfere with
their obedience to nature: for, in this
sense, Nature is but another name for
God.
If it be important to its due effect, that
exercise should be pIeasurable, let me beg
tive employments at home, to carry into
them cheerful disposition, and then they
will do good to body and mind.
The natural consequences SAYS DIR.
Combe, of the confinement of girls in a
boarding school, of their scanty exercise.
and their exercise being only of their
! legs, of their being laced in stays, is de-
6ility of body, curvature of the spine, d.
minished tone of all the animal and vital
functions, and general Il-heallh, and vet
while the laws of nature are set at def
ance, we wonder at the prevalence of fe.
male deformity and disease This de.
tormity may not be apparent to common
eye, but 1t is real, aud certainly impairs
the health, and sooner or later DESTROYS
life.
| A distinguished physician. who visited
a boarding school containing forty girls
says, that there was not one of them whc
had been there two years, that was not
more or less, crooked By crooked, h,
means, curvature of the spine, which
cannot consist with health.
Intelligent physicians have given &C
counts of many schools in Great Britain
where there was no play ground wher
no T0mplng or noise was allowed or, il
| other words, no real play exercise or re
taxation. A great proportion of the child
rem became permanently diseased, man
: with scrofula, an ancu1 able maladv. Tn
Y teachers and governors of these school
may have meant we'll, and sinned from il
4 Eorance.
Such fatal mistakes are, fear, not cor
a fined to the boarding-schools of Gre;
e Britain. A dress-maker in extensive br
i sness IN the city of New Y ork, once sal
: to me, Can you tell me the reason VIII
:, every young lady that comes to me
have dress made, is deformed2' d,
e formed!' Yes, one shoulder blade pr
If iects more than the other. My childre
: are not so, nor the children of other poo
i people,
d This deformity was, undoubtedly, II
e consequence of mode of life, which Ii
volved the privation of necessary exc
IS else.
j. The young women in our city boar
n ing schools have the exercise of dancln
lie lessons. This is better than nothing, b
O. not much, if the lesson is taken in
lie whalebone prison, and in heated roof
with hundred Other girls. Perhaps, t.
lie in fine weather, they walk as in tuner
lie procession, at fixed hour, marshall
ly along the sidewalk by their teachers
n This is little like the exercise that natu
C. prompts, the running, jumping. and sho
its ing. But surely, running, jumping, a
nd shouting, would be shocking lmpropr
r. ties in clty-street What. then, is
MS alternative? Either do not send the g
of to the boarding-school, or send the boar
p ng-school to the country.
he Ii boardine-schoo life is hurtful, wi
in is TO be said of shutting children up IL