The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-02-12

1inds blow, or who keeps shut up like hot
ouse plant, when the sky is clouded or win
er comes, neither knows the happiness
fhch belongs TO animal vigor, nor can per-
prm The moral and spiritual obligations
Fhlcll rest upon her. A sound body. The
1orship of the spirit cannot be attuned IN
ure and molly accord if the temple be rent.
r torn, OF left thing of shreds and patches
.ithout The cement of beauty, order, and
rengh. Mr.. Hawes says:
First, it is said ola virtqous woman, that
ie grdeth her lions with strength, and
lrengIheneth her arms. A due attention
health is here indicated, and this be not
4 itself virtue, il is very essential TO the
Ntivalion Of all the virtues. A feeble; sickly
eiicate body is but poor tenement to be
fseaped by an immortal mind; and when it
doomed 30 nhabit such a body, its noblest
Inergies are depressed, and The highest
Traces OF a virtuous character, unable TO de-
lslope themselves. are crushed in the bud.
How the vrtuons woman slrengtheneth
| er lions and her arms, or how she acquired
ld maintained firm and vigorous health, we
IAN be at no loss to know, after reading what
i said of her occupations and habits.
though evidently of high rank in society,
he dio not think it beneath her station, nor
Inconsistent with her views of delicacy and
Iefnement, TO occupy herself in domestic
tffairs. From the whole description given
bf her, we are warranted 10 say, that she was
What is sometimes called stirring body; one
Who had always aomething TO do, and was
always doing it-nol wasting her time and
brength in ease, in Incidence, and lnetficen-
", but busy, active, industrious, rising early,
nd seeing that all the concerns of the
household were attended to at the right
time and in the right manner; and not IN
willing, when there was need, TO put help
ing hand, 10 whatever work demanded TO be
secured her health, kept hel
from ennui, and the dismal train o! ills inclu
ded in nervous affections, made her strong
vigorous and cheerful, and qualified her tt
fill, with usefulness and honor, the station
assigned her by Providence.
The virtue for such Unjust call there
referred 10, is sadly neglected in the train
ing of our daughters at The present day. AT
least. one would think so, from seeing th'
pnny forms, and feeble frames, and slckly
faces OF great numbers of our younger fe
males, especially of the higher classes. Ac
count for il as we NAV. the fact must be ad
-,i,,ad ,trar Ine muscular vlgor and strengl
Uf our lar country women udsC, s<-r's.-J
.e,---.-AAlAl.eLcI
change. Our grandmoihers, should the
appear among US, would scarcely recognls
many of their descendants as belonging T.
The same race with themselves, so diminish
ed are they in size, vigor, and portly gait
But small proportion ofolr adult female
enjoy complete health; and it has been said
that full half Of the wives of our mission
aries have been found, on trial, moi TO hav
had Sufficient health for the stations the
we're called to occupy. The evil here com
planned of is, no doubt, TO be traced chief
10 bad training in the nursery and in ih
family; TO an ignorance or disregard of tn
laws of our physical system in respect t
health.
But the mischief, commencing here
often aggravated in schools and higher sem
inares oflearning, and receives its finish i
The intercourse and habits of fashionable lit
lO llliuu1 vi Oidii3 10 iiO PhJ oiOiOS'oa WOui
say, is too severely tasked, is oyerworked
its tender age; due attention is not paid I
air and exercise; and in the eagerness
have the pupils compass the whole curtccl
lam of knowledge in given time, it is ofre
forgotten by parents and teachers, how ea s
ly the health may be impaired by such pfc
cess, and so impaired that the mind, III
heart, the whole character shall shrink an
dwin1le into feebleness and inefficiency, an
the life become vapid, useless and miserable
The evil here suggested is an appalling on
Ii deserves the most serious attention of a
VINO wish well 10 the rising generation.
acts not on the body alone, but on the min
on the intellectual and moral character; NJ
on the fair sex alone, but on the other Sc
also, and is raising up race of feeble, sick
beings, as unfit for The serious duties of lil
as they are 10 enjoy the blessings of full an
vigorous health.
! from the Louisville Journal
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