The Portland daily press., 1874-04-01
lFrom the Boston Courier. I
The Bridal Tour.

Young Spriggles and his Amarantha Jane
had just been married, and were goiug upon
their bridal tour. They didn't know whether
upon their return they would board with the
old folks or take rooms in private hotel.
Being only clerk, ,Spriggles' means we've lin
tied, and he could not expect much at first i'm
the way OF living. "Of course" be said to
old Dodge. wealthy member of the finn
who had granted him three weeks leave OF
absence, 1--WE must be in stA lie, you know,
sir, s'post you took rusher when you we're
married. mean you took an extens We one
and showed your wife the sights EYES,"
said Dodge, with nod, IN tell you about
it. l made long preparations for my bridal
tour, and the girl tina; was to be wife helped
me. We had it all fixed aud everything laid
odt beforehand. 1 worked hard for it, and
she worked too. 1t was to be the grand
event OF our lives, and we wanted that it
should be "a success. We felt that as the new
lite opened, so should i; continue. l was
earning $500 year. That was good pay for
salesman fve-and-thirty years ago-better
than three times that amount now, as things
go. We were married in the morning at the
house OF my wife's father. Then we rode
two miles to the substantial cottage / had Sc
cured as a home. My money had made
the first payment on it, and Marys money
had furnished three rooms in it. And
we ate our first meal thereafter in our
own house, and thence went to my work,
and my wife set about her work. 1t was
new life, and we were determined to succeed
If possible. Aud in that effort was our joy.
And in the success that followed was usually
happiness. In less than three years my house
was pai0 for, and my home was my own.
Come storm or come sunshine, we had roof
to cover us-a roof from which the hand of
man could not turn US. doubt. young
man, ifever brical tour was happier or
rlGi ioll th,.x n
that the exercise of housekeeping upon her
owl account was invigoratng and healthful.
But then we married for real earDes living
and loving. We believed we should fiji d
life's purest joys in the discharge of liie's
sacred duties. l DECLARE" pursued the old
man, with glisteDing moisture in his eye,
81 should like those first blessed days of my
own home life to live over again. But it may
not be. And" he added. with regretiul
shake of the head, 81 fear the young men of
the present generation will not live them for
my viewing"
Spriggles walked away scratching bis head.
He wasn't sure that he had really caught the
drift of the old mans remarks.
A PLEA FOR CoRsETs in the opening
lecture of Mrs. Walter Lyman's course to
ladies, delivered recently in New Yolk, the
lecturer, while advocating most of the views
recently advanced by women ph1 sicians OF
physiology and hygiene, made some wise
notifications. Rules that will apply to
aborigipes need exceptions before being
adopted by civilized people. Perverted
modes of living acquire. so to speak, per-
verted styles OF dress. While health is large
ly dependent upon a right diet, it is still
more dependent upon right breathing. A
woman's animal spirits and her endurance
are proportioned to her thorough inhala-
tions and exhalations. If she be prop
erly dressed, the ascent of stairs, as
well as of hills, may be made con-
ductive to health. God, in creating particu-
lar portions OF the body to perform special
functions, did not intend one organ to per
form the work of two. Fashion, however,
demands tnat women crowd the organs of
the thorax upon those OF the abdomen, COM
press instead of expand the floating ribs,
partly dispace the stomach by the liver and
contract The space required by the lungs.
But the lungs are to purify the blood. If
they do not have room to perform their
function, if the breathing because of wrong
dressing be light. the blood becomes imp +
fectly purified. Because so many American
women a.e sedentary in their habits. tue
head is much OF the time bent forward the
spine is unduly curved above the shoulder
blades, the organs OF the chest are pressed
downward. Many school girls acquire cur
vature of the spine. Now, il women cannot
be cured of excess ot inactivity, the next beat
thing to do is to put them i'll strait jacket.
Corsets are result OF modern modes of liv-
ing. Women, however, who sit much, or
very aeshy women, might better wear them
than suffer from diseases that may result be-
cause t. ey lack means OF support. A wc-
man who wears a corset cannot sit bent tar
over. The steels and bones of corset dis
tribute the weight which would otherwise
cut into the body from skirts and other
bands, and thus cause torpid state of alb
dominal muscles. Corsets can be so made
and so worn that a full and deep respiration
can be taken. 1t would be safe to &C mpare
half dozen women who habitually wear cor
sets with half-dozen who do not.