Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-01-18
Let That Girl Live!

CreaLmenC, Wnllo the OOyS dcC SO,
confined as girls are, that they are per-
mitted to have little more freedom
turned loose into the yard, where they
are able to invent plays, etc, enough
to keep them in good physical condi-
ton, aside from bad habits of living.
But the girls, delicate creatures, a
different class of mortals, as it might
seem, constitutionallv frail. born to
have curved spines, delicate stoma h.
pale face. contracted chest, of the
wasp-form, household pets or tender
house plants, must be treated as If they
were intended only for the house. as it
might SEEM Their delicate stomachs
are treated to pie, cake, doughnuts, a
lite cracker. some rich preserves, ice
cream, with figs, candy. raisins, nuts
and the like for dessert, on the false
supposition tina. they cannot bear SUBJ
stantial food, and that this trash is real
" nourishing as compared with SIM
pie food, while, practically, it is nearly
worthless. on account of the little which
can be appropriated by such weak
stomachs. Besides being practically
nearly starved, the tender mother sus-
poets that the appetite is not as good as
it should be, and would be if proper
food was allowed. with out-of-door ex-
ercise. and the innocent and delicate
child is dosed with powerful drugs
powerful for harm-with but title
knowledge of the real wants of her
child, and less of the patent medicines
inflicted on the victim! 1t may be that
she foolishly resorts to the use of ar
dent spirits for such a delicate girl.
when much. if not most, in the market
is unsafe for a strong man. If made
peevish, nervous, irritable by such
harsh treatment, unable to sleep, the
symptoms, remonstrances, are hushed
by the use of some soothing syrup"
rich in opium!
Mothers, let your girls live! Allow
them more liberty in the pure air of
heaven, in the glad sunlight. DO you
fear that they will be tanned? That
tan is only the certificate of Nature
that she has commanded her blessing
upon them, the evidence of invigora-
on. Iet them play like good boys
and with them, certainly till they have
gained some muscular power, as a
foundation for what awaits them in the
future. Do you fear that such associa-
ton with boys will make them rude?
Select good boys for them, and re-
member that they were placed in this
world to mingle with society, Of both
sexes, and that if. you will allow them
to mingle with boys, the boys may be-
come less rude, better associates for
them. Remember that they were placed
here. not simply to be pets, to live an
indolent life in a careful retreat. but to
We for boys and with boys, to associate
W tn them in the family, in the school,
at church, everywhere in active life.
Good boys will not harm good girls.
| They will live together, they must assO
ciate together in after life, and should
do so now Let them run and Jump.
hop and skip, frisk and play just like
! the dear little lambs, for this is the way
in which the young indicate the ex-
uberance of their spirits, and promote
their growth and health. Let them
| join their brothers and neighbOr
associates in innocent games of
amusement and recreation. Let them
make bone, muscle. sinew, nerve, just
like their brothers, for they have the
same muscles, and need to have them
wei developed, to be strong and endur
ing, just as certainly rs their brothers.
AS the future wives and mothers they
need muscle development as certainly
as the boys, and perhaps nst AS much.
Let them wear loose clothing that their
lungs may be expanded. strengthened,
so that there need not be in the future
such a fearful mortality among the
girls, just emerging into womanhood,
as at present. Let the chest be un-
trammelled. so that the six hundred
millions (D of air cells may not be
closed by compression, thus paving the
way for consumption. Let them be nat
ural in their motions, their gait. and they
will be graceful, or sufficiently SO for
girls at that age. Do not allow any prim
"Mrs. Grundy' to instil into their ten
der minds the idea that it is ''improp-
err to be natural. and that they must