New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-08
"UAvE WE A HEALTHY WOMAN AMONG Usp

"UAVE WE A HEALTHY WOMAN AMONG USl'
To me Edftor Of The Tribune.
SIR: Having noticed in your SEMI WEEKLY
issue OF 2sth ult, an article headed by tie
startling question, "Haye a healthy woman
among usl" | beg to say few words In
reply However, before answering yes or no
one would need to comprehend what the writer I'M
dersauds by the term healthy because OF men or women
who could be classified perfectly healthy there are
certainly very few anywhere But giving niue more
latitude | should answer, Yes. For instances III TINS
New.Euglaud farmhouse where now write, are two
women OF different types, whose lives are widely apart
aud botI, are-wc it is safe TO call them heathy-l
sbod say strong One Of these is the mother OF half
crown family tall, wemade rather thln woman, VINO
h no assurance save that OF a little daughter, does all
of tbe homework churning, washing, baking, &c. III
cluded and only twice in the course OF SIX weeks mas
she been even 'out Of sorts" The other is young
mother scarcely more than 2o small, but round as
,uuIno bright and rather rosy; she has good appe-
lite good Digestion and could to all appearance, nurse
,vins N necessary should not fear to guarantee her
for the fun sustenance OF any young SAMPSON ana yet
she comes direct from BroOklyn-has Hyed IN ely All
her life do not forget the old proyerb
.Two or three swallows do not make a
s,,o,oer.~ but look across the road and
100 on, GOD vonan q grandmother doing all the work
t her b0nsr and that includes the care OF an lhsau
J,uehrr: moreover, among all the farn-honses Oh me
ucighIorhOod, there Is - 9Ite! ~. 49,,
,,onc of these women belong To the city leaders OF
iliott rgfg
n,.r COZ. nudge with any correctness nom appear
many of the city ladies Of some pretcnsl0- IN the
me of 1ashon are not very scky certainly not fragile
nnrn soiourn OF several weeks AT the ST. COuu Holel
g. tn Snrn and early part OF Summer, could not but
,nnar, The humber OF stately DANES OF really hani sOe
n"ai Who seemed best with good appetites, ana VINO
nini, cnul1 have 10 occasion 10 enact "VlOahtc IN
80 nr;ry Indeed, In many II not most cases, the
~ aud inotbeT seemed quite 10 Guido her lord and
49, in Soats OF the trenoher. II those women were
Int we'll and nasgably strong, why, then see no com
,,on.ense I'm Juno-ike frames and rounded contours
T tese we're not young girls, though several Of them
were youngish matrols, ana one insn' ieaS"pi' '"p
nose IN developed girls ,
fs a. mist be confessed that there are too many
weakly women In America; too many prematurcly one
,,igh saw irnmaturely broken down. Aye ana lar 100
nanv a., our Young girls either pretty yet fran ana
,, 49, dofs or limp, wishy creatures, needing
modern toilet nccronancy render
thcn' urfentae and, worse than ALL like the miiliner-
vanned they shall change only to decay. Now there
are many roots and rootles 10 this evil though all are
moi necessarily found In connection with each ind idua
cose sometimes poverty, sometimes phullefeu ease
stands as chief motive power behind the scenes Dut
ot of the imps OF mischief well enumerated Dy the
| writer of that article as thus; -
Wh,t Win their unrrsing sBrons lives foal iunseehead AZ
gr.su tr, Hanor end than AL the absolute ignos
80 o them quiet OF contenmel of simple beshhy asnseD
r. S,se tIeu tie dance of dshl TO the end
Th. paragraph IL rs true as Gospel, Yet methks
4. one esuse of this eNll American specially, ho'
,',tnncl therein, viz, that In America we nave hu
j;JJren I .sy we, because, though most OF my ne ~
h.en pns.ed In CSada there too, especially Anon 'e
,,,,er ,1llcs at society," this EVIL prevails lhls ~
~ burr,ing age, and are an ambitious tus'i ~
,l, an. ,tlau VI such hlc j. terrible even on "eu