Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-03

Is child old enough to walk about than
is is put into fashionable straight jackets
that prevent the exercise and
development of the muscles, i'm
heart, lungs and other vital organs, and
enervate the whole system, assisting in
the propagation of the germs of diseases
that may have been inherited from the
parents. To make girl appear delicate
seems to be the aim of nine tenths of the
mothers of the land. Sickly girls are
fashionable; those who enjoy robust
health and possess all the vigor Of woman
hood are esteemed vulgar. Therefore
every ebullition of youth is repressed;
every naturals desire to ronp is curbed,
and 'lady-like demeanor" instilled in the
minds of children on all occasions.
If death does not claim the girl before
she has reached the age of woman
hood, and she retains some little vitality,
the work of murder goes on. She is sent
to the ballroom to waste her energies
hopping around a hall with some male
popinjay till the rising sun ushers in a
new day, and all the physical energies
are exhausted. Her corscts are laced
tighter, her feet cramped into high heeled
shoes several sizes too small, her body
burdened with loads of skirts, and pads,
and bustles, that would exhaust pack
horse. If she survives this ordeal she is
married off to some worthless fellow
whose vices, added to her own, hasten her
| end
Mems habits and the treatment that
boys receive are as rule as reprehensible
and as detrimental to health as the man
ner in which women treat themselves and
their offspring. Few Of them attain to a
vigorous old age, but pass to the grave at
an age when they should be the embodi-
| ment of mental and physical health.
And yet, as the victims to fashionable
folly among women and to sensual appe-
titles among men are laid away in their
last resting place some ''man of Cod
there is much of irony in the term) i'm
piously exclaims at the open grave, ''The
Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away;
blessed be the name Of the Lord" Bias
phemy is mild term to apply to such
language.
All diseases to which flesh is heir are
due to some violation Of natures laws.
Epidemics in cities are the result of i'm
perfect sewerage and filthy streets and
alleys or to impure water. Because the
| Almighty does not see fit to reverse his
laws-to make impure water healthful
instead of otherwise; to make malaria
nourishing rather than pestilential-men
and women who are. responsible for the
existence of these sanitary conditions re-
fer to the diseases which they generate
as dispensation of Providence.
Because it is impossible to rear a
child fashionably without impairlng its
constitution, people complain bitterly of
the cruelty of fate that cuts them off in
the flower of their youth, and the Lord
is charged with bringing about the ter
rible affection. Thousands of children
are literally murdered every year by
their parents and thousands of men and
women commit suicide annually, and still
the pulpit cantingly, falsely and impi-
ously murmurs, sit is the Lords will.'
A religious system that tolerates such
mockery is rotten. True religion and
common sense are outraged by such ny
pocrisy. 8eligion and hygiene should go
hand IN hand, and as the laws of ma
ture do not tolerate departures from
proper sanitary conditions, the church
should not tolerate them either.