Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-01-03

that the taxation of care and labor on the
brain Of women is even worse and greater
than it is liz the same class of our eities.-
The wives of rich farmers are often ambitious
to carry out plans of labor and wealth with
their husbands, while at the same time, their
daughters must be sent to boarding school,
and all the habits and tastes of city-life
must, in consequence, be mingled with other
cares. The great majority Of the American
woman have their brain and nerves system
exhausted by too much care and too much
mental excitement in their daily duties; while
another class, who live to be waited on and
amused, are as great sufferers for want of
some worthy object in life, or from excess in
seeking amusement. Next, there never has
been any previous generation of children who
have been 50 extensively deprived of pure,
cool air in nursery ,school-room and parlor as
those now on the stage. The alright stoves
in bedrooms, the cooking stoves in kitchens,
the close stoves in school-rooms, and the far
greater care taken to make windows aud
doors tight have secured this result. Then
the furnaces that are so generally used, keep
the atmosphere of house far warmer than
it ever becomes with open fires. For, when
the body is warmed by radiated heat from
fire. the air never becomes so heated as when
all warmpth is to be gained from the sur
rounding atmosphere. And as the upper part
of the room is always warmed, both stoves
and furnaces keep the head warmer than the
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atmosphere to breathe. In former days lit
tie girls took cold air baths all over their per-
son whenever they went out. In these days,
they are covered from all cool air, and they
stand over registers and take hOt-air baths
when they feel chill or have cold feet
Besides this, the school-rooms are made tigh-
ter and heated hotter than they ever could be
in former days. AT the same time, they are
crowded with occupants whose brains, while
struggling with intellectual drilsand exciting
motives to exertion, such as never were known
to former generation. Little girls are es-
pecia sufferers in all that appertains to health.
They must be housed most Of the time in
heated and impure air and then when allowed
to go abroad, they must wear thin slippers,
and must not romp and run like the boys
And, then, as they come to the most trying
and critical period of life, the stimulation Of
brain increases, the exercise diminshes, and
the monstrous fashions that bring distortion
and disease are assumed. In England, the
higher classes rarely send u daugher to a
boarding school, but parents secure teachers
to educate them at home, and take the great
est pains to secure healthy and perfect
physical development. But in this country,
the greater portion of the wealthy classes
send their daughters, at the most critical age,
to be close packed in ill-ventilated chambers
and school-rooms, by night and by day, while
Iall physical training is neglected, and the
brain and nerves are stimulated by exclusive
intellectual activity. Twenty years ago, a
distinguished medical man gave it as his
opinion that majority of school girls had
more or less Of the curvature of the SPINE
A still more terrific deformity than this is
now added as the result of our miserable
neglect and abuse of the young.