Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-10-17

Practical Suggestions as to How Poor
Health May BE Restored.

! The New York Tribune. in recent
article upon delicate ladies, recon-
mended that instead of the delicate
medical treatment they receive in their
luxuriant parlors they should be banged
| about by Swedish movement cures. and
! kneaded by steam rollers. The Chicago
Alliance goes still further in this matter,
and asserts that a powerful cause ofthat
fact called frail women is want of in
tellcctual force. There are many men
and women, remarks the ANance, who
are i'll from want Of brains. They suffer
a voluntary decline because they do
not possess the brain power that offers
the blood any inducement to circulate.
Following out this argument, the same
writer remarks that pluck is wonder
full agent in throwing off disease, and
that will power will surpass pill power
IN nine cases out of ten.
While we agree partially with both of
| these writers, it seems to us that they
generallze in wild sort of way upon a
subject which unfortunately become al
most too ripe for successful and remed-
ial treatment. Admitting, because it
cannot be denied that fine ladvism.
partly in the physical sense, and gen
eral uselessness is becoming too com
mon feature among the women of
the United States, particularly in cities
let us look little into the cause of this
state Of affairs. The American city
child, US a general rule, does not get
fair chance to start. It's mothers lead
ing desire is to keep it pretty. She
clothes it in fiimsy garb when it should
be warmly clad, and keeps it shut up
like dollhouse plant when it should
be out of doors. Is is literally washed
dressed, and coddled, if not to death, at
least to the certainty Of a delicate and
tender future. When the young girl is
fit for school, her intellect is unnaturally
stimulated through the forcing and
competitive system so much abused in
our public and private schools. She
lives most probably, in house where
the simplest laws Of ventilation are set
ut defiance, and where the cooking
would most likely drive "a French woman
to lunatlc asylum. She becomes Il
young lady when her English sister has
scarcely emerged from pinaforcs she
gets her little head, fresh from high
pressure, double-act.op examining cs-
Enlistment, filled with beaux, parties,
lllrtation., marriage, and trashy novels.
Her intellectual faculties are first strain
ed to Their utmost tension, and then her
emotional nature is abnormallv devel-
oped and exhausted. What wonder.
when she comes to marry, at from
eighteen to twenty-five, that this al
ready exhausted frame should break
down after the first or second Of those
pleasing punishmcnts which try 50 fear.
fully woman's strength? What won
der that half Of our women to-day are
nervous, whining, dissatisfied invalids?
Will power, indeed What becomes of
your will power when the nervous
system has been permanently
shattered and the system run
to seed from OverStrain of the
mental faculties? As well ask a crippled
man to walk as to expect Il WORKOUT
brain to rouse itself and act. As for the
heroic treatment recommended, in nine
cases out OF ten it would simply kill.
We do not speak Of that class of women
who affect fine ladyism, so-called, who
physician, whose divine mission it is to
loll, to cultivate nerves and sensibilitv-
banging and kneading would do these
people II vast amount of good-but Of
the thousands of pale, WORKOUT, small
boned, bloodless creatures, whose lives
are one prolonged suffering. either from
positively marked disease or general
llstlessness. Such cases need rest, The
physician must begin with the mind.
and then attend TO the body. With re-
pose of mind, and feeling of peace
around the heart, would come that
strength of will Nhich is to make the
body strong. Happiness Is woman's
best tonic, work the offspring of that
happiness. Where the emotional ma
turc is ut peace the body, even when |
diseased, will make an effort of itself to |
regain It's natural vigor 1t is, unfortu- |
nately, the case that many women are
unable, through poverty, domestic infe-
llclty, and other causes to court that |
sunshine of the soul which is the truest /
physician. The spirit once thoroughly /.
broken there is no hope for the body. /
Where such IS the case Il sense of duty /.
alone can sustain the frail Casllet in its .
round Of daily cares. Those who write
so authoritatiyely upon a subject which .
1t is evident they have thought of mere /
~ rs matter of passing interest, would .
do we'll to study Michelet, to mark the
gcntlenesS, the gentlemanlincSs with /
which that delicate writer treats the sub |
ject of woman'S weakness and woman's /
pain. There is no lack of will power or .
of intellect among the women of Amer /
lea. If anything, they are credited .
abroad with an overdose of strongmind- .