Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-25

.~dSyelopmoAt enuues nim, At1o vii IVY
hermit me to enter into the details OF the
toilet, beyond insisting that . matuanai
wssh;ne al the face and hands and an COCA
s;orsl sblution OF the feet are not all the
care of person that health requires: The
nnderearments, freighted with their load
Of organic debris. must be changed and
cleansed. and the porous surface OF the
3 freed from the dry, horn-like coating
N enitbelial scales, which neglect allows to
form and interfere with the ~cutaneous ex
halatiou. Man is pre-eminently the crea-
tnre of habit. The child trained to b cieen
from birth will look upon sponge opd bath
and tooth brush as indispensable, and will
walk all its days on the cieanly, path on
stems. The sordid teeth and fetor.tainted
breath are not only disfgurements OF the
fairest face, but shameful evidences OF ma
ternal neglect and ~incapacity.
With this / might cease to claim your
attention. When the lungs are hourly
filled with pure air and the clean body Is
batbed in its sun.lit ocean, the enlivened
blood will crave its proper food, n the
awakened appetite may be safely trusted :
select il. Food has hitherto engrossed the
attention of hygienists to the exclusion OF
this weightier matter Of fresh air. Eat
what YOU please of the good things OF his
life, only be sure to eat enough. Renounce
the heresv that il is wise TO rise from the
table with hunger u~nappeased, and above
all do not send the little helpless depend.
ents on your bounty supperless to bed,
to have their empty stomaehs rack them
with unquiet slumber. The gaunt-eyed
gaze of the poor underfed shop girl Is q sad
der sight than her scantily.clad form. but
the saddest sight of all is the spectacle OF
the poyerty.stricken mother spending her
little stock of hard. earned pennies for drugs
for the feeble child, which, like herself,
needs only abundant food To be well. The
discussion of dietaries is q matter OF sec
ondary importance. Accustom the child
to be omnivorous. The eccentricities OF the
palate of later life are often the results OF
caprices gratified during childhood. Let
the food be good n wholesome, plentiful
in quantity and not ruined by the ootin
National and sectional habits become idio'
cratic and are not easily eradicated. The
Yankee stomach delights in pies
and baked beans, while hog and
hominy are in equal favor IN Dixie. Ban
ish the pie board from the North and the
irving pan from the South, and thousands
will live who now perish. The cook is q
mighty power. Amid the smoke and YER.
min OF the kitchen he wages war on the
people who despise him. He sugars the
| yenomed pill and sweetens the poisoned
draught, and with ~disdainful contumely
bids You eat, drink and die. Dignity his
calling and expound its mysteries to the
ruler of the drawing room. Let the young
mistress of the household know that
| culinary chemistry is as elevated
q study as the physiological chem.
istry Of her brother, and that the
changes to be Jung in flour and butter, and
sugar and milk eggs are not mere psnder.
ings to taste, but the foundations on which
| are reared races of valiant men and lovely
women
The sanitarian who has invaded the pen.
| etralia Of the household, who has fought
his way from kitchen to dining.room and
| salon, may pause before he seeks to peer
beyond the curtained entrance OF the dress
ing.room. Though he disclaim the Pur-
nose to assail the aesthetics Of the boudoir,
and invoke the womanhood Of Hygeia, as
his authority for pointing out wherein
| they have failed to obey her laws, mother
and daughter, grandmother and grand
| child, viii bar the portal against him. and,
in spite of the goddess precepts and his
warnings, will clothe the future woman as
they were clothed, and flock around the
gaudy shrine where tickle fashions holds
her sway. He may unveil the ample
wasted Venus, but they will turn admir-.
ingly to the costumed model In the mod
iste's window. He may point TO the index
| of the s%pirometer, which proves unerringly
that no woman who wears a corset can fully
initiate her lungs. and they will contemptu-
ously lift the edge and ask II that be tight
He demonstrates how the loosest stays pre-.
vent the rising of the ribs and tlatten the
bust, and summon the Uniformed Andalu-
sian, Moorish Jewess and Manillian to bear
him witness. He shows by diagrams how
the French heeled boot p~aralyzes the mus
cles of the leg, %attenuates the calf, and de-
forms the foot; and argues in vain that u
ring in the nose is no more barbaric than
rings piercing the pink lobed ear, and that
a mountain of hair, robbed from some vic.
tim of the morgue, and piled on oval, Hat,
elongated heads, without regard 10 symme'
try, is both hideous and unhealthful. The
corset maker wakes rich, and her hour
glass shaped abomination, fifty like the
grim symbol Of Time, the destroyer. con-
tinues to distort, deform and destroy the
beautiful outlines Of natures grandest
masterpiece.
Ii is not my purpose TO discuss the thou
sand sinnings against the divine Hygeia's
laws which we all commit daily. Our chill
dren, as soon as born, are thwartcd in their
natural instincts by grandams and doting
fathers and anxious mothers, who either
starve them through fear Of overlooking, or
gorge them into dyspeptic surfeits. The
breast that should nurture them is I'M
fitted for its Office or denied them, and stall
wart boys and girls are sought TO be built
up Of farina and its thousand starchy con.
geners. The little child tOddles to school
to have its brain prematurely stimulated
by mental aliment as indigestible as the
viands put into its stomach-by day cheated
of its outdoor life-and burdened with
nightly tasks, sits clearing its eyesight
over illegible printby Pickering lights. IL
enters upon adolescence with sallow face,
bent form, round shoulders. fiat chest
and thin frail limbs. IL O boy, the weakly
semblance OF a man learns TO smoke
cigars or cigarettes, arresting development,
%obtunding his brain, and importing his vital
powers, until he is only fit to lie the father
Of one or two puny, whining, suffering little
shrunken chest, disguised into Hn absurd
imitation ofthe shape Of woman, her cheeks
unlimited, save by cosmetic art, defying the
elements in mid winter, in thin stockings,
paper-soled shoes and phantom undercloth-
ing, she lives in the foul over.heated atmos.
phere of the ballroom, squirting her feeble
energies by the stimulus Of excitement and
beef tea to spurts Of muscular effort, or
saving herself when about 70 fall gasping,
by rushing to The open windows, she sur.
wives by chance TO become a mother, a
mother unfit for maturity. IL parents thus
idly witness the immolation Of their chill
dren. they are not more tolerant OF them.
selves. They labor TO amass riches, TO attain
position, to acquire power, spurniDg the
health counsels, the man whitening and
molding under the pleasureless monotony
Of office routine, the woman bending and
breaking beneath the seryile drudgery Of
domestic burdens, her feminine charms
and soft attractions vanishing TO give place
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