Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-09
The Wretched Health of American
WOmen,

women
The standard of health of American
women, says the Boston atlas and Bee, dur
ing the last ten or fifteen years, has ,,oor
greatly reduced, This is a sad ,act. The
practical and difficplt question is, how can
it 5e remediedi The causes that have pro-
duced it will afford some hints as to the
remedy: Nothing is more evident than that
the habits of the women of our country, par
ticularly in cities and large towns, are en-
ervating and destructive to health. The
whole range of habits, no less than many of
the customs Of society, is more OF less in
furious in physical point OF view. What
is done, what eaten, what breathed, what
worn, is to great extent in violation of the
true laws of health. One of the great wants
of American women is more pure air. They
stifie and stultify, weaken themselves and
become diseased by confinement indoors too
much. The average capacity OF lungs of our
women, as compared with those of England
those from which our own are descended
is alarmingly small.
AS compared with our mothers and grand
mothers two and three centuries ago, it is a
matter of no less disparity. Miss Catherine
Beecher, who has studied the subject for
years, says that nine women in ten in
America are ''ailiDg;" and that seven in ten
are the victims OF positive disease, and
thereby subject to an aggregate of pain
which it is peculiarly sad to contemplate
All physicians and Psychologists are aware
that the female organism is by nature sub
ject to more diseases than the male, but
they know equally well that the proportion
of diseases which our women have is out Of
ratio TO the other sex; in other words that
women are far more generally and oftener
sick than men. A the causes which have
reduced the standard of health have existed
for years-actively at least for whole gen.
eTation-whateve reformation is made must
be slow in its results, and conducted with
great prudence and wisdom.
RUsKIN ON THE GLORY OF THE PISEs.-
Magnifieentl-nay, sometimes almost terri
bic. Other trees, tpttlng crag or hill, yield
to the form and sway of the ground cloihe
itwith soft compliance, are partly its subjects,
partly its fiatterers, parny Us Us com'orSrS'
But the pine rises in Serene resistance, scls
eohtainedi nor can ever without awe stay
long under a great Alpine cliff, far from ali
house or work of men, looking up to its
companies Of pine, as they st md on the mac
cessible juts and perilous lodges Of the enar-
nous wall, In quiet malitUdes, each Ike
the shadow OF the one beside it--upright,
hXed, spectral, as troops of ghosts standn :
on the walls of Hades, not knowing each
other-dumb forever. You can not reach
them, can not cry to them-those trees never
heard human voice; they are far above all
sound but of the winds. No foot ever stirred
fallen Leaf of theirs. All cOmtortiesS they
stand, between the two eternities Of the
Vacancy and the Rock; yet with such iron
will, that the rock itself looks bent and shat
tered beside them-fragile, weak, inconsist-
ent, compared to their dark energy of deli
cate life, and monotony of enchanted pride;
unnumbered, unconquerable.
HoRRIBLE CRIME OF AN IDIor.-An idiot in
Glasgow, named McFa1den, stripped the
clothes from child five years ol for the