Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-03-08

Wheat lis lull at lO5s@l963 for April.
Corn, 42@42s cash, or April; 42l@42s
for May; 4l5942 for June. Receipts
Flour, 1885; wheat, lO5,59S; corr, AZ.
sS5. shipments-HOur, 1S.tO7; wheat,
1886; corn. 1872 l4.
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oar women's PhysicoI EaueafiOn.
New York Times.l $3.50 bHa
What is true Of one generation is
very likely to be thought true of
the next. We are as slow to recog-
nize the decline of an old habit as
the growth of a new one. We have
heard so muchiof our women's in
disposition to exercise, that we
have accepted it as a fact of to-
day, which assuredly it is not.
They no longer stay in doors from
morning to night-it is question
able if they have ever done So
when the weather is pleasant they
no longer refuse to breathe open
air they no longer decline to walk
even a short distance; they no lon
ger insist on driving when they 60
out at all. Nevertheless, these
charges are necessarily made against
American women, particularly
those who live in cities, and much
of their physical fragility and most
of their ailments are ascribed to
such cause. They are compared or
contrasted with European women,
who are ever paraded as their anti
podes, hygienically, and reported as
taking every sort Of outdoor exer-
else. Many Of us, no doubt, have
come to believe these stories, partly
from mere force Of repetition, and
partly from lack Of opportunity to
disproye them.
The truth is that American
women, whatever they may have
done or failed to do hitherto, now
exercise a great deal, and are SO
very fond OF fresh air that they will
not do without it. No people, un.
less the better class OF English, 50
insist on pure air as we do. 1t il
absolutely Indispensable to us, w
will have it at any price; We vii
sacrifice a deal Of convenience ant
comfort to secure it. The French
Italians, Spanish, and Germans carr
far less for it than we. When tbeiI
climate will allow, they like to DIM
and seek pleasure under the sky
but they are not preiudiced. afte.
our fashion, in favor Of ventilation
as their residences, halls, an(
theaters, abpndantly testify, The,
can breathe with satisfaction an at
mosphere that we cannot an(
would not endure.
AS to exercise, snch as walking
riding on horseback, and the like
only the educated and well-to-d'
English women assume to compet
with our women. In fact, we be
1ieye that the Americans, partiou
larly the city-bred, walk more thai
their English sisters. In Londol
and ether large towns Of Grea
Britain, these hardly 60 anywher
on foot, depending on conveyanc
Of some kind almost entirely, Will
American women here in Boston
Philadelphia, Chicago, San Fran
cisco, and other cities, walk mile
without thinking anything Of i
1t is in the main our city womeI
who are addicted to pedestrian pei
formances, not our country wome
who have little to tempt them fortl
our rural regions being for the mo-
part devoid Of the s~moothness, fin
ish and attractiyeness Of Englis
landscape. English women do thei
walking in the country America
women do most of theirs in town
because country life is the large
and better portion Of life in En-
i. land, while, until recently, il ba
T, been rather incidental with us. G
. late, however, our women have b
gun to spend three, four, and fly
months of the wear out Of the cit
f and to employ much of their tin
on foot. They can now be see
b every season making long pede
trian excursions by the lake, at IL
seaside, near the quiet hooks, an
among the mountains. The Lat
: or the German women are general
! as disinclined to walk in the coul
n try as in town 1--WE except, of cours
the ~peasantry and the lower classes
d driving well-nigh invariably whC
they want outdoor exercise,
We are told pnremlttlngly Of Il
feats of English women in Il
Tyrol, Switzerland, Northern Ital
). and other high districts, and th
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