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

more than the writer's Of any other stamp
Of the same period, makes no charges nf a
natural weakness Of the animal woman
No record Of this kind is made BY the his.
torians Of the colonists Of the various set
Elements in America, whether Dutch, Eng.
lish, French or Spanish.
Finally, the Indian women Of this coun.
try, when uuexposed to the damning inHuen-
ces of civilization npon the animal econo-
my, are payi passu eqnal to the man, endur-
ing cold, hardships, and more labor than
the man with equal results. DIR. Living
stone, in his travels in South Africs, while
be recognizes the existence of female dis
eases among the women, does not note any
physical inferiOrity Of the women to the
men. | AIN also Informed by gentlemen of
extensive experience among the slaves Of
the South, that the muscular vigor of the
men aud women among the ield-hands is
not markedly different, unless when abused
while carrying children or being forced to
hard work too speedily after their Iying.in.
Now, what is the recognizable difference
in the lot of woman from the past to the
present, between the savage and the civil.
lied Her lot is said to be ameliorated.
From being a'pet aud inferior to man, she
is now considered pet and equal to man.
AS pet, she is carefully guarded and not
allowed to do anything, so far as this is
possible. The rich being able to effect this
end, their woman are all sick, the poor com.
paratively so. The whole sex are being
killed by Kindness. $50
THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF THE sexes con-
TRAsTED.
LET us take the actual condition Of the
rich child of different sexes in this city of
New Y ork, and looking at them, let us see
if there is any wonder that they are sckly,
miserable, inferior in physical force to what
they should be, and why the female is con
stantly, after they each can walk alone,
far below he male even in his imperfect
physical development.
So long as children are infants, wearing
the same dress, their exposures are the
same, but as soon as the boy leaves his cum.
bersome garments, the swaddlng-clothes,
which must be kept 'ft to be seen, the dis
tinction begins. The right of woman to
be free and equal with man will come with
a Declaration of Independenceawhchs shall
strip off the fetters of petticoats and the
gilded meshes of lace which have SO long
bound down the gentler sex.
For short period the rich boy is little
| benefited by the change of attire. The
shape of his garments do indeed give liber-
ty TO the limbs and play to the muscles,
but the exigencies of rich velvet jackets,
slken trowsers, and white shirts, with their
lace fret scorR of frils and furbelows, re.
quire him to be constantly guarded and
the natural ebulitions of his animal life
restrained by imported bog-trotters, educa,
ted to know what dirt is, or by o more
fashionable bonnie denfant, who unites to
her duties instruction in the freedom of
Partisan morals with the restraints of
French manners
Soon the American boy is beyond the de-
moralizng Influences Of Hyperion curls
which have so long fed the sickly vanity of
his enervated mother His velvet cap,
which he so recklessly offered to his friends
to be pegged az with tops, has given place
to one of meaner stuff, and in games of
ball, tag, and the like he neither respects
his cloth himself nor exacts regard for it
from others. Witness the impetuosity
with which those boys in yonder retired
street rush in friendly strife after the shin
ny ball > hear their ful.mouthed cry Does
not the air permeate the lungs to their far
theSt Granny, leaving no portion of their
tissue full of stagnant blOodH Are not
the pores of their skins opened to the free
out-pouring Of the waste of the body No
matter if their foolish parents stuff their
stomachs with improper food, if nature can
thus have full.opportunity to get rid of it.
We may speedily follow the boy in his
career through life, and whilst we find him
free from the bad effects of tobacco and
alcoholic stlmulants engaged in out-ofdoor
exercise, even while breathing the air of
city througed by near a million souls, and
most perfectly attended, to by the authori-
ties in its sanitary matters, yet we find the
man comparatively vigorous Debility aud
disease commence With the boy confined
over bis book in ill-VeOtilated school rooms,
neglecting healthy exercise for the ambition
and literary superiority or in our own
city, most frequently bent over a ledger
II is worthy of note, that there is scarcely
single well-ventlated private counting
room in New ork, aud most of the bank
rooms are little better, The New-York
merchant changes his badly heated house
for his worse heated cOuntingroom, not by
the healthy walk from one to the other, but
by the locomollon OF crowded. shut-up
omnibus or car. Is it strange that the
Businessman of this city is deteriorating :;
that gout, dyspepsia, aud all chronic dis
eases. in addition TO consumplions, errone-
ously supposed to be the oRly malady en-
gendered by want of exercise and bad air,
are greatly on the increase
But although the physical stamina of the
men is not what it might be, it is far supe-
rior 10 that of the women, to whom we
will again turn. We will start with tho
girl who has kept pace with her brother IN.
til the date Of his assumption Of breeches
and their inalienable privileges We feel
that we are treating upon delicate sub |
ject, and we beg our readers to attend to
the general idea, rather than to any pecn- |
liar form Of expression, or to any pa.tlen-
lar illustration, about which there may be
more than one opinion .
So soon as the sex Of the child is made