Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1866-05-30

tanned by honest labor and good condn,t
they deserve all the good fortune thus
accruinS to them. But when I see sicklv,
nervous American women ioSiliur and
struggling n the few crowded avenues
which are open to mere brain, cannot
help thinking how much better their lot
would have been, with good strong bodies.
steady nerves, healthy digestion. and the
habit Of looking any kind of work in the
lace, which used t5 be characteristic OF
American women generally, and of Yam
kee women in particular
The matter becomes still cTaver bv the
laws Of descent The woman who eafee-
bfe5 her muscular system by sedentarv
occupation, and over stimulates her brain
ana nervous system, when she becomes n
mother peTpetuates these evils to her of
spring. Her children viii be born feeble
ana delicate Incapable Of sustaining any
severe strain Of body or mind The uni~
versai cry now ahart the Ill health Of
Young Amer ran girls is the fruit of some
three generations of neglect Of physical
exercise and undue stimulus of brain and
nerves. Young girls now are universally
bum delicate.
The most careful hycicnio treatment
during childhood. the strictest attention 10
diet dress, aud exercise. succeed merely
50 far as q produce 4 air' who is healthy
s- 5ag~ as she does nothing. With the
strain ner delicate organization gives
rU5. now here, now there. She cannot
study without her eyes fail or she has a
Aea6ache, she cannot get up her own mus
Inns or sweep tho room, OF pack n trunk
without bringing on q backachn she goes
- q concert or lecture, and must lie by
p the next day from the exertion If she
skates she Is surc to strain some muscle
or, if she falls and strikes her knee or hits
her ancle, blow that healthy girl wo'd
forget IN five minutes, terminates in some
mysterious lameneSs which confines our
poor syhil for months
The young American girl Of our times
is n creature who has not a particle Of vi
tality 0 sparc-n0 reserved stock of force
to draw upon in case offamily e1iccncv-
She IS ezquisitclY strung, she IS cultivated
and refined but she is too nervous, too
wiry. too sensitive; she burns away too
fast; only the easiest Of circumstances. !
Tie most watchf5l Of care and nursing.
Fan keep her within the limits of comfort
lble health; ard vet this : the creature
who must undertake family life in coun~
-rv where IL is next 70 an absolute impo5-
sibilitv TO have permanent domcstics
Fragment change. occasional entire break
iowA9. mu=+ BE tho 10. or the majority oil
particularly those who do !
g0t .lfa i1 @3t-r
+. fact. "a in america have got so far |
.st Of las way cf e womanhOod that has |
5-v yg-lr vf rllIoe or orulencc Of ply |
lc.t Fro...fl.an=, taat, whom we see n go~
man raalo rs q woman ought to hc, she
-tsfI-
eirfs are AFRAID % GotHlnE SO fnucl IS
rowing stout; and If the Young lady bo-
rirs to round into proportions like the yo-
Dcn in ritan's ana ETiUr1iore's pictures.
he Is distressed above measure, and be- /
gins t. make secret inquiries into reduc- /
NJ diet, and cling tenaci0uslv to the stron /
rest covset-Iacinr as her only lcpo I'll
yonld require one to be better educated /
han most Of our girls are to he willing I
% look Ike lie SistlnC Madonna or the (
Venus Of Milo
Once in q waila our italian opera sing
rs bring to our shores those glorious +
lhvsiques which formed the inspiration
IF Italian painters; and then American
,ditors make coarse Jokes about Barnum /
1t women ana avalarches, and pretend .
O ho struck with horror at such dimeu-I
ions We should be better instructed.
md consider that Itslv dcos us q favor in +
eadinE US specimens not only OF the mu-
ical art, but Of warmer, n richer and /
more abundant womanly lie The mag
lifceut voice IS only in keeping with the
magnificent proportions Of the singer. The .
-oico which has no CRATE. nc strain, but
lows without effort; which does not Ia
,or eagerly up to a high note, but aliGhts
IN it like q bird from above, there care-
assly warblinr and trillingi a voice which /
hen without effort sinks into broad, rich, :
.ombre depths Of soft, heavy chest-tone, .
,an only come with n physical nature at /
)nce strong, wide and fnc-from a nature /
such as the sun Of Italy riPens as he does
ler golden crops, filling 1t with the new
vine Of song