Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-07-13
THE FEMALE FORM.

Tight Lacfng q fruitful source of
Crime-Mrs. Swissheim ON Women
Who Look Like Black Ants and
Who Can't Breathe Below the Dfa-
phragm.
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
| / have said that doctors are the only
class of men in position to do any
thing worth the doing in any effort to
stop the crime of abortion, and this is
true because it originates quite as
much, if not more. in physical than
in moral disease.
| Our civilization has been SO largely
built on hopes of the hereafter that it
/ is peculiarly deficient in its require
ments for the hour. 1t has taught us
to live for what is to be at the expense
of what is, and so in physical culture
leaves us far below the pagan Greek.
Man, in christian civilization" sees
there is a notch all around it, like that
with which a woodman deadens tree.
The deeper the better is he pleased,
for it makes convenient rest for his
arm. In making this notch for his
admiration and convenience a woman
as surely, if not as shortly, takes her
own life as the woodman takes that of
the tree, and completely units herself
for the ordinary duties of woman
hood.
CREATURES NOT HELP-MEETS.
After it is made she is no longer a
! help-meet for man, but a creature who
must live by his generosity and boun-
ty. She is totally unfit for wife or
mother, and is good for nothing but
riding in coach, lolling on sofa
and nursing small dogs. The form
which was worshipped and immortal
lied by the Greeks was that of a wo-
man who drove four huge, snorting
horses abreast. or took bull by the
horns and led him to the altar as fear
lessly as she stepped into her bath;
but the form which is divine to nine
teenth century christian is that of
one who faints at the sight of a mouse
and shrieks over a spider or an angle
worm.
Well, the main difference between
the two specimens of female human
ity is that of the notched and the UNI
notched The one adds to the cencus
at fearful cost of anguish and risk
of life. The other was and is not
materially Inconvenience by the com
ing of baby.
In the trail hour preceding the birth
.of the King of Rome the doctors in at
tendance consulted the husband and
father as to his choice between the
life of his wife and that of his child
and his answer was save my wife.
Now not a small part of the abor-
tionist's business comes from the
same source. The husband fears for
the life of his wife in the trail hour
the prospective mother fears for her
own Our unnatural civilization has
with such abnormal suffering and
danger that people grow more and
more unnatural III enduring or trying
to avoid them.
CAN'T BREATHE BELOW DIAPHRAGM.
Not one woman in every thousand
of the upper walks of life i'll any civil
lied land breathes below the diaph
ragm The fashionable notch prevents
its rise and fall III about nine hundred
and ninety-nine ladies and gentlemen.
Their vital organs are all out of place;
every operation of nature is perform
ed with difficulty, if not pain every
breath is limited, every pulsation of
the heart restricted.
Many of our women are no more fit
to become mothers than are the wire
frames on which they model their own
deformity To those who do add to
the population the expense caused by
these deformities become serious
item. The cost of doctors and nurses
and appliances foOts up fast, and
makes a large hole in years salary,
and, to avoid the risk and pain and
expense, thousands resort to feticide
Thousands of women destroy their
own health or unintentiOnally take
their own lives to avoid falling into
the hands of male doctor; for the
male accouches is an unnatural pro
duct of an unnatural civilization, and
one that always adds to the risk, even
when the SterneSt necessity demands
his presence.
Whatever the inspiration or non
inspiration of the old Testament may
be it abounds in lessons of wisdom,
and, no doubt, the authors gave us
freel V of their best thoughts.
There is evidence that the story of
the sojourn and increase of the Israel
ties in Egypt was at least founded on
fact and the increase seems to be ac
counted for on the ground that it was
women alone who had charge of wom-
an in the crisis of maternity. WOm
an doctors might now lift us out of
the slough into which we have fallen,
but where are we to find the women
who can be made into doctors?
FEMALE CARICATURES OF HUMANITY.
A female caricature of humanity,
who has tottered up from babyhood
in high-heeled buttoned boots, one
who has spent years struggling to
move her legs inside a pull-back or a
mass of heavy skirts, one whose blood
must run blockade at both ankles.
both knees and the waist, is much bet
| ter fitted to become a dude than doc
| tor.
You can not lessen the natural cir
conference of a womans waist with
out stumting her brains. You can not
convert her body into IA wab-stick, for
wiping the streets. without muddying
her brains. Yo can not send her down
street inside mule load of houmces
and bugles, rolling and pitching like
ship with torn sails in short-chop
sea, without msettling her brain
So we have woeful lack of brain
power on the female side of the
| house.
The want of women must, for many
a year, contine us to a very limited
supply of woman doctors as we have
and ask them to enforce the laws of
nature. and SO save us from the dis
gushing crimes which grow out of their
violation.
OF course no one or two doctors can
compel or induce his or their female
patients to take off their corsets or
bands, to remove all external pressure
from the walls of the chest and limbs.
and suspend their clothing from the
shoulders; but this might be done by
medical associations
They could certainly correct that
VICIOUS TASTE IN MEN,
which leads them to admire waist
which looks as if it had been cut out
of a solid block of white oak, and is
more the form of black ant than
any thing human. They could, GER