The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-18
For Ones Health.

4Mh, the doctor has ordered ut. He
says it is absolutely necessary for my
health"
As we mcct,mr friends, these pleasant
summer days, and they tell us where they
are going this>snmmer, they almost inva-
rially finish of with the remark which
opens this article. .--
Doctors, in these days, are shreE:d fel-
lows. They ;hsvc an eye to the main
cl,a,soe;; and, as%every fashionable woman
is out of health, Mt "stands their ;physi-
clans y in hand ito make them believe that
their oondition is dangerous unless care
fully attended to-
OF course every fashionable woman
likes to think that her health demands
she should 80 to the salt water, or TO the
mountains. 1t isvery pleasant for her to
think that she Is seoing, and to tell hel
dear five hundred triends that she is 60
ing, and going for her health. There is
sort of eclat in going somewhere fol
your health.
And it is surprising how patert a"aa'las
no matter how penurious he may be, MOI
how obstinately he says "Fudge!" sand
'.Bosh - when all ether little excursions
are suggested-it is surprising, we say,
how quickly he willis and opens his peck
et-book when the doctors opinion is
quoted to hiM, andahe plea of For my
health is presented 1872 ;=..,.
It's singular how most people delight
to get away from home. Home, which
should abe the eenterasf all ours joys, and
the grand nucleu around which should
cluster our dearest hopes and our fonGest
affections. Home, (which should be to
woman Of a thousand fold more impor-
tance than all the Saratogas, and Long
Branches and White Mountains.
Year by year our shionable women
when Jnly' sets in, leaMe their cool, con
Portable houses, where blinds and screens
shut out the heat, and dust, and smoke
leave their spacious, we'll furnished cham.
. bers, and their elegant ~app pointed tables
to travel And they submit to be stewed
and grilled in nine by ten Bedrooms; they
are stit1ed in the packing-bsx state-rooms
of first-class steamers; they are bullied
by the landlords, cheated 10y the hack.
men, half poisoned by the bad cooking
and made to suffer from flies, heat, mos.
quitoes and other insects too numerous +c
mention, to the tune of four dollars Gay
and washing extra.
And this is called travelling for pleasure
and health
Now, we do not want to be understood
as saying anything against travel, wher
properly conducted, for we do believe
that no system Of education SO polisles {
man as a judicious course of travel, an(
we have no doubt but that if Diogene:
had come forth from his tub and Travelled
during the fashionable season, he would
have been much more entertaining com
pany (for the.tub) on his return.
But we cannot see how anybody cal
call summer travel, as it is usually con
Quoted, a: pleasure. We have tried il
quite extensively, and have failed to dis
cover where the pleasure comes in.
Andour advice would be-never trave
in July and August unless you are sal
amander. r.,
IF awoman can go on season after sea
son travelling for her health, and not col
lapse under the martyrdom, she must b.
blessed with-a sound constitution, and i
is safe for her to calculate on living twent,
years on 'borrowed me."-Kate Thorn
in Neao York Weekly.