New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-30
NATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION.

On "Wednesday afternoon some two hundred persons
assembled at the Convention Of the above assocanc
adjourned from the previous evening and held al sa
Cooper Institute. Drs. Hall and Jackson and As:
PAGE were the principal speal ers and at the close d
the latter's remarks the Convention adjourned vi
o'clock D. m.
In the course of DIR. Jscksons remarks, he took Oe-
casion TO say that be had been misunderstood the pre-
yous evening. He mad not Intended 10 say the doc
tors were great evil He had said they were
necessity growing out of oar habits of life In per-
feet state o society neither doctors lawyers nor NM
sters would be required.
AT "a in the evening, DIR. JAMES Y. JACKSON again
opened the Convention, introducing, with few ri
marks, DIR. Harriet N. Austin of the Dansyle WAe1
Cure, New ork.
Miss AUSTIN took he stand, habited in black vel1
vet bodice and blue silk Bloomer skirt trimmed WITH
velvet She did not believe in the old adags " Whom
tue gods love die young" Man was plaeod here by
lie Maker because the earth good foz him - M
habit and enjoy. Naturally, he should only die wben
worn out BY good Old age. and after such .sAfr1
enee ss best fitted TO enter the next sphere Ia dis
case the mind became the slave of the body reversing
the natural, noble order OF things. How many men.
considered exemplary Christians, violate every day
ply steal laws quite sacred as those OF their moral
beng. Women greater sufferers than men FROM
i'll health. This was owing 10 her more artilt,- hf
The speaker cited the cases OF the Aboriginal,
Dutch and the Mormon women, ~ show kc
healthy the sex can become, whes trclned y,
proper exercise. WomaDs greatest sin was me-
rite piece Of mechanism and should not be cogged Of
marred by its drapery. What more wicked, ungra1e'
full, dscreditabe costume than the dress OF modern
New-Ysrk ladyl Not single article useful for tn'
purpose for which it appeared TO be designed Ihe
fair lecturer commented severely on the modern BON
net, the practice Of wearn sear-rngs ON the gloves
shoes &e, OF the female costumesbut especially o1
the dress which she asserted produced innumerabi'
forms Of disease. Besides. who could conceive AM
idea of the beautiful form Of even the farest woman b
Of harH do
might have made her like an umbrella, aud yet viii
means Of ocomOtion, If he chose. Bat since III
had given her legs-real flesh and blood legs, Ike
mans-why shouldn't she be permitted to dress tha
she could use theml tApplause.j The ssodera dsc
was the prominent theme for the carcatures Of eom
papers. The right TO loeomofion Of the deaTe
rights woman bad, and erablemsf;c Of her power a.
dignity. The hands were nobe members, bas ~ is<
were nobsr No prouder thing was said Of eerts !;
woman Than that she had walked 3 900 miles overt
Western praries. The lecturer spoke at length
this theme, and was loudly appa1ded by an and
that seemed all of her doctrine. She claimed ed
outdoor exercise was the great need Of Amercaz
women, and described the Bloomef dress adapted a
such exercise, known as the American costume "
reading letters from lsces all the country wf
Use II. AnlO6g these, a farmers wife living IN I'd
West writes that che has dsaghier vino plowed oye|
lUo acres last Fan for Spring sowing, Sile yearin
tins dress. Many wel-known persons were name (
who approve OF the dress; among others, Geuf
smith, whose only daughter has il for six year
The lecturer had worn for eight years, and had bee
N perfect health, and should never wear any othet
Loud applause.
Dr. Jackson made few remarks corob0rative a
Miss Austin's address. This gentemans speeches ar(
always pointed scientific, and eloquent, and listened
TO with tie greatest attention. lie spoke Of the advan
tages OF rustic city life, and claimed that if l0
doetored inyaids would come out of the town, pac1
themselves under care of DIR. Hall and himself. the
would cure % per cent Of them. The city girls wsrd
dying of inanitiOn-not of "notbing to wear" bat d
nothing TO 90; send them across the sea- in peasant
costume, the highlands OF Scotland. and feed theu
on oat-Ineal porndge for year. aud there would b!
an end TO their sicknesses People needed physicians
not doctors lie went on TO show the forced unnatural
stimulating hours men Of business went through witl
IN tbe ierse ciies, and concluded with glowing ex