Delaware gazette. (Wilmington, Del.) 1837-1883, 1861-06-01
PHYSICAL rRAININa or dIRIs'5


This is the most momentous health nroblem.x7ilb
which we haye to deal, to secure theccoper pAys-
cal advantages of civilization for Amegisan wofsp
Without this there be no lasting progresJ-
The Sandwich Island proverb says
"If strong DO the frame Of tile indtfsr,
Her sous shall make laws for the people"
But in this country II Is scarcely an otaggeraa6n
to say that every man grows to maturity surround
cd by circle Of invalid female relatives be, lser
finds himself the husband Of au ipEslid wife anu
the parent of invalid daughters, and that 10 comes
a. last to regard inyaidism, as Niche Qsaflly de-
oares, the normal condition of RAats if tho
Almighty did not know how to croatc. .WsNsuan.---
This, Of course, spreads gloom ovcf lie. v4as.
| look at the morning throng Of fyhool girls in
summer, burrying through every streeAwith FRESH,
young faces, and vesture of lilies. duty curled,
straw HATED and booted and turned of us patterns
| Of perfection by proud mamnas--is il not sad 10
me to think that all this young beaAiy muss-sne
day fade and die for there are sph9rF of life be-
yond this earth, know, and the s6hrls good TO
endure through more than one the 81 lness IL In
the unnatural nearness Of the decay ttforesee ne
living death of disease that is waiting 0ss at hand
for SO many, to know how terrible s-&assEiqa.kf
these fair children are walking unconsc,usly jhto
q weary, wretched, powerless, joyess, aless ma.
turity. Among the myriad triumphs Of odvancioe
civilization, there seems but one Formidable Dan.
ger, and that is here. -
It cannot be doubted, however, t8It the peril
will pass by, with advancing knowledae. In lhc
meantime, we must look for proofs oi ihe physical
resources Of women into foreign, and even into "a
wage hands. When an American motter tells lac
with pride, as occasionally happeasR that Aer
daughter can walk two miles and buck without
great fatigue, the very boast seems a agedy, bur
when one reads that 0berea, queen oftha Sandwich
Islands, lifted Captain Wallis marsh as eas
lily il he had been little child there is a slight
sense Of consolation. Burnhilde, in the HNibci.a-
gen." binds her lover with her girdld and sIiugs
him up to the wall. Cy@burga,Tj'o of Duke
Ernest of Lithuania, could crack nutd between i.sr
fingers, and drive nails into wall with her thumb
whether she got her husband unde1it IS not fe-
corded. Let me preserve from obliyiln the renlssn
Of my Lady Butterheld, who about de year l!eC
st Wanstead, in Essex, (Hngiand,l lhus adyoyiis
cd; "rhis IL to give notice. 10 my lgsfrla nastfl
and ladies aud loving friends thatKiny lady Bat
hors., % run foot or hoit5s sitf -ss;s1 q
England seven years yO4ngtf, bed ese isfsss-pA-
dervalue myself, being nbw "a years Of age" No
should she bo left unrecofded, the high-born Scot
tish damsel whose tradition still remains at III,
Castle of Huntingtower, in Scotland, where tgt
adjacent pinnaeles still mark the Maiden's Luap.
She sprung from battlement to battlement dis
tance of nine feet and four inches and eloped witt
her lover. We're n lady to go through one of oul
villages in series of leaps like that and were she
to require her lovers to follow In her footsteps, il
is to be feared that she would die single-Atlanie