Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-02
HEALTH, THE TRUE NOBILITY.


The following paper was read by DR.
| Gihop, U. 8. N, at the night session o.
| Wednesday:
Which is the fairest of babes? What man
| the manifest? Who. among women, the queen
| lest woman?
Is it the infant ushered into the world amid
a nations plaudits. Graded in damask, and
surrounded by all the luxury of wealth, whose
| dull eye and feeble wall betokens its dire in
heritance from generations or royal sinners
or the rosy child, without spot or blemish,
feeding at mothers breast, which has never
ached with painG
Is it the man who daily wakes from restless
slumber to battle with one or another of the
or are the fruits of his own reckless living; or
he whose sound BODY domicIles sound mind,
aud whose nerves thrill with ecstatic pleasure
to the harmonious tunings of his senses?
Is it she whose existence has been one long
plant of suffering, who hides ill-shaped, at
tenuated limbs and shrunken bosom beneath
rich garments, and by cunning articles
makes that seem which is not, braid
ing her thin short hair with other women's
tresses, tinting her sallow cheeks, and filling
unsightly gaps until they counterfeit natures
rounded outlines; or she, whose warm blood
courses unchecked throughout her faultless
form, mantling her cheeks with rosy hue,
moisteniDg her lips with dewy softness. and
Frightening her eye with lustrous fire. whom
time fails to disfgure, and who passes out OF the
loneliness OF youth into the eternal beauty OF
perfect womanhoody
What is it thus beauties the babe, ennobles
the man and glorif1es the woman-which no
wealth can purchase, no aLcient lineage nor
exalted station secureS HEALTH Health is the
priceless talisman Of beauty. Health is the
patent of natures own nobility. Health Is the
browning glory of womanhood, and of all hui
manity the source Of all earthly happiness-the
handspring of every human pleasure.
The Greeks deified health, typifying it like
every other good and blessing known to man in
the guise of woman. She was legendized as
the daughter of Esculapius the god of
medicine, and was worshiped with him.
She sat by the 81 g of Apollo, the type of
manly vigor, and herself, the impersonation
of female loneliness. was the companion of
Palias. the Goddess of wisdom, and of Cytherea.
Queen of Love. Among the sisterhood of
deities none was more fair and honored than
the divine Hygeia. Young and old crowded
her temples, rejoicing that through her favor
the world was so bright and joyous. and life
such sweet lingering on earth Alas how has
she Jared In modern timesl Her statues have
fallen from their pedestals, her beautiful
discarded and her precepts scorned. A few
votaries OF the sweet goddess have preserved
the secrets of her cutie, and with encouraging
success have sought to re-establish her fanes
and light once more the sacred fire upon her
affairs. -
Foremost among the new propaganda of
this old faith is the American Public Health
Association. The seven gentlemen who as
sembled in the rooms of the New York Board
of Health on the 18th Of April, 1872, have good
reason to be satisfied with their preaching
of the gospel of health At Long
Branch at Cincinnati, at New York, at
Philadelphia, at Baltimore. at Boston, at Chi
cago, at Richmond, at Nashville, and at New
Orleans, they and their Jealous coadjutors