The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-06-02
Woman as "a Phys ci:lhlnEHer
sphere as an Educator of Hler sex.
From the Grant County Herald.

81 9r8 IRON the Grant County Herald.
Thescatalogue of the women'st Medical
College of Pennsylvania gives list of
fifty students who attended the instruc-
ton during the. season of 1869 and 1870.
These represent thirteen States an4
Canada, At the Ell shtecnth annual com
mencement, March 49,. fourteen graduates
received the degree of NJ D. The vale
.dlctory address, deli vered on this occ4-
sion TO the departing doctors by Ann
Preston, NJ D., Profcssorsof. Physiology
and Hygiene, is highly suggestive and
eminently adapted to the sex of the hear
ers; and the interest and application of
somt, OF It are by DO means limited to
those women who purpose practiclng the
healing and preventive art on others.
| { When anxious fathers and mothers
bring you their beautiful daughters,
from whose young faces and steps the
bloom and elasticity are departing, aud
ask your. counsel, what Shall you do?
You look at those girls and at once take
in their history kept long at school,
aud strained with many lessons at All age
when the condi ions Of healthful growth
and development were Incompatible with
sedentary habits and severe mental tasks
their bodies SO tightly bound with cloth
inc. that by no possibility have the ever
moving vital organs been able fully to
/ perform their functions their extremities
cold and thinIy, clad and tie weight of
their clothing supported, not by their
shoulders, male by God % bear burdens,
but by parts, totally unified to sustain
theml Released from school, they have
bent long in the same posture over piano,
fancy work orexciting novel instead Of re-
ljoicing In the open air, or in active. mus
cular exercise their homes, luxurious, it
| may be, have yet been grudgingly cup
Piled with pure air and, quickening sun
shine; the passion for dress and company
has been fostered uneiI the 90 have become
the staples rather than the stimulants OF
their lives; while late hours, artificial
lights and continuous excitements have
intelfcred with the nutrition Of nerve
tissue, and perverted the distribution of
nerve force. You know that quiet, inter.
esting, imperative work work for hands
land for inindis essential to their health
and as you sigh over their wasted, suffer
ing, unsatisfied lives, you cannot be con-
| tent with the lnockery Of merely prescrib-
| ing drugs, needful and beneficent az these
may often be. Some morbid Michelet
may speak of this feeble womanhood as
the necessary results of advanced civiliza-
ton, but it is very clear to us that it is
not high civilization, but the failure to
reach it, to which this is due. The high
est civization will surely be in harmony
with nature, with the moral and divine
law. twill drive ant. fsJilies as we'll as
fe vera; it will foster pure, quiet, simple
tastes, and will find the models of beauty
in form and drapery, and not in the vui-
gar devices by which fashionable man
tau-making distorts and burlesqaes hu-
man proportions, but in the grace and
freedom of artistic nature aad the CORES.
ponding fitness Of clothing.
The woman Of true civilization will
regard as pitiful and barbarous the idea
that uselessness is elegance, or that dis
ease and languor are wornanly and she
will surely escape the emptiness and dis
satisfaction which Cypress every human
being-th proudest queen of fashion as
we'll as the lowliest child of poverty
who does not cultivate and direct to en-
nobling uses the powers and faculties
which are the glorious birthright of hu.
mainly" ~ '
The most hopeful class of men in New
Hampshire are said to be the thousand
and one compromise candidates for the
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