Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-01-14
WHOLE NUMBER 525.

Soon Julia and CIementina Angelica 40
to fashionable boardng.scbool, where thev
learn to play q polka, crotchet. and the
like and for health, walk up and down
Broadway twice week In procession
the principal use of which is its serving as
an advertisement Of Madame KS
school
Look at the dress Of woman. Were
man to so direct the fashion Of woman's
dress, 10 order to enable him by physical
force to overcome her and tyranize over
her, he could not more completely .fetter
her than she shackles herself Her sleeves
are placed 50 low down upon the waist that
she is unable to raise ber hands to the top
OF her head or use them freely in any direc-
ticn her limbs are restrained in their mo-
tionS by profusion OF flowing skirts. and
her breathing Interrupted by lacngs or cor
sets, which displace the organs and slowly
destroy life. 1t is 10 vain, however, te
hope for any relief from the tyranny OF
fashion Were these injuries caused by
any edict Of church or state, long ere this
they would have been abrogated. Against
the DEGREES Of fashion there is no appeal
We must therefore seek for other evils more
enrable. 't
POPULAR REASONS FOR woMAN's INFIRNATIRs
HUDIBRAs well said of men, what is ap,
plicable to women at the present time, in
their attention to matters of health; they
'CoMroUED for sins that they're inclined to
BY damning those they have no mind to-
They say that the reason of their condition
is, that they are the ills consequent upon
maternity that It is the formation of the
modern houses that they are compelled
to go up too many flights of stairs that
they are heated with furnaces, etc. They
say nothing of late hours, late suppers, i'm.
proper clothing at parties and public plas
ces, of the bad results from the modern
dances, of the want Of vigorous out-of-door
exercise, of illy-ventlsted churches lecs
ture-rooms. bathrooms, theatres. We will
look at their reasons and those just given.
THE ACTUAL FACT WHEN NATURE HAS 4 CHANCE.
The ills Of maternity are great. The
enrse has come down to the present genera
ton. But why is it magni6ed during the
last half-century? Because woman has be-
come doll, to be decked and draped and
carried out, instead of an active, laborious
working help-meet to man. WehaYe With
in year, had considerable experiences
among opera-dancers, whose occupation in
deed is unfortunately not so much in the
open air as might be desired, but which, in
its daily study and subsequent practice re-
quires an amount of long-continued muscu-
lar energy of the severest character, littls
recognized or understood by the communi.
ty. Hard and protracted as this is, il was
not 'intermitted by some, except two weeks
before their lying-in the pains of labor were
in every case most notably diminished in
such a manner as could be attributed solely
to their peculiar labor, which gives great
suppleness of limb, free play of muscle,
and that happy union of power and plia-
bility most to be desired. There is reason
why the necessities of maternity in all its
bearings should make woman less reliable
than man Tor certain duties, but why exer-
else of these functions Ia the nineteenth
century should be different from the same
actions 10 the sixteenth or eighteenth CEN
tury, is the question to be solved
CONCLUSION MKT WEEK