River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-07-19
For Ones Health.

"oh, the doctor has ordered it. FL,
says it Is absolutely necessary for my
health"
As We meet our friends, these pleasant
summer days, and they tell us where they
are going this summer, they almost inva.
riably finish off with the remark which
opens this article.
Doctors, in these days, are shrewd fel.
lows. They have an eye TO the main
chance; and, as every fashionable woman
is out Of health, it islands their physi.
clans IN hand TO make them believe that
their condition is dangerous unless care
fully attended to.
OF course every fashionable woman
likes to think that her health demands
she should go to the salt water, or to the
mountains. 1t is very pleasant for her to
think that she Is going, and TO tell her
dear five hundred friends that she is go
ing, and going for her health. There Is
a sort of ecldt in going somewhere for
your health.
And it is surprising how pater,fdmasds,
no matter how penurious he may be, nor
how obstinately he says Fudge" and
"Bosh :" when all other little excursions
are suggested-it is surprising, we say,
how quickly he wits and opens his peck
et-book when the doctors opinion is
quoted TO him, and the plea Of For my
health" is presented.
1t is singular how most people delight
to get away from home. Home, which
should be the center of all our joys, and
the grand nucleus around which should
cluster our dearest hopes and our fondest
affections. Home, which should be 10
woman of thousand-fold more impor-
lance than all the Saratogas, and Long
Branches and White Mountains.
Year by year our fashionable women,
when July sets in, leave their cool, COM
Portable houses, where blinds and screens
shut out the heat, and dust, and smoke
leave their spacious, well-furnished cham
bers, and their elegantly appointed tables
TO travel. And they submit to be stewed
and grilled IN nine by ten bedrooms; they
are stihed in the packing-box state-rooms
of tirst-class steamers; they are bullied
by the landlords, cheated by the hack
men, half poisoned by the bad cooking,
and made to suffer from flies, heat, mos
quitoes and other insects too numerous to
mention, TO the tune of four dollars day,
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, when
properly conducted, for we do believe
that no system of education so polishes a
man as judicious course of travel, and
we have no doubt but that if Diogenes
had come forth from his tub AMI 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 can
call summer travel, as it is usually con-
Quoted, Q pleasure. We have tried it
quite extensively, and have failed to dis
cover where the pleasure comes in.
And our advice would be-never travel
in July and August unless you are a sal
amander.
If a woman can go on season after sea
son travelling for her health, and not col
lapse under the martyrdom, she must be
blessed with a sound constitution, and il
is safe for her to calculate on living twenty
years on borrowed time. "-Kdte Thorn,
IN Nac York Weekly.