The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-17

men are leehle race: and, if he n q physsolowi
Cal ohserveF, he b sure % add: They WiE give
birth 20 feeble race. not OF women anly. but q
men Al well never saw beiure - many
pretty girls together said lady Amberlsy u the
writer, after visit TO the public schools Of Boz
ton; and then added. They ell looksd sick
To large extent, our present system Of edu-
eating giFis u the cause of this palor and wezk-
ness II has jusi bssn nd thAl
the educational methods of our schools and col
leges FOR girls, are. 10 large extent the c4n~e Of
the thousand Ills that besef AmeTicE n women.
II il not asserted here that improper
methods Of study, and disregard 0f the repro
ductive apparatus and its functions, during the
educational lie OF girls the sole causrs oi ie
male diseases; neither Is il asserted that all
female graduates Of our schools and colleges are
pathological specimens But u Is asserted thai
the number ol these graduates who have been
permanently disabled lo q greater or len degree
by these causes is 50 great 10 excite the
grzvest alarm aud 10 demand the serious arien-
tim OF The community II these causes sbsuld
continue for the next hali-cenIury, and increase
IN the same ratio AS they have for the last any
years. II requires NO prophet 10 forUtel thai the
wives who are to be mothers ia our Republic
must be drawn from trans atlantic homes The
sons of the New World have To react on a mag
nihcent scale, the old story of unwiVed Rome
and the Sabines"
DIR. Thomas Adds Emmet. in his great work.
" The Principles and Practice Of Gynecology,"
says: On looking over my case OF books have
oeen surprised 60 ind the same statements re-
peafed again and again. viz: thai she suf
had taken the highest honors ssl nsess.-s
male school or college, and gaVe'no tan y .
sign OF weakness until re action took place rsSe<
her return home hold that il Is not pFaciica-
BILE TO educate girl by The same method found
best fitted Tor the boy, without serious conse-
quences afterwards We are indebted to the
late DIR. Edward Fl. Clarke, Of Boston fOr two
valuable ireaIises ON this most important subject
and already II is evident that promising results
are TO spring from his good work | not only
fully endorse DIR. Clarke's views as being in &C
cordance with my own experience. but claim
that the evil results are even more serious than
he has represented"
Prof Goodell, in his incomparaby able Les
sons in Gynecology,' says: Take, for instance
this too Common picture from life girl who
entered puberty in blooming health, and with
out an ache, is Oyef-laSked and Over-taxed al
school, and her health begins TO fail she loses
her appetite and grows pale and weak" Afier
reciting the l'ng catalogue of symptoms consti-
tuting that honor of the sex and OpprObrium of
the Profession, Nervatise and exhaustion he
says: Now what Is The Interpretation 0f this
train of symptoms What means this headache.
this backache, these lerine aud Vesical symptoms!
Icannot pretend 10 give the precise pathology, but
lake it to be something like this: The yet devel
oping nerve centres of this brain-crammed girl
were unable to cope with the strain thrown on
them, and they broke down"
MIR. Editor, might go on indefinitely swell
ing the list of authorities I'd the effect that the
proper methods of educating girls aud boys are
essentially different, and that disregard of the
method adapted to each sex is followed, 100 often.
by consequences most hlrmful to the individual
and disastrous to the race; but the weight which
attaches to doctrines taught by those alrea.y
quoted cannot be increased
Nor Is 1t true, as asserted by Progress" that
" Every teacher who has tried this plan (of CO.
education) approves it," As could show, had
not already extended this article too long, by
"a cloud of witnesses"
GEO. TRoUP MAXWELL