The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-06-13
Onr Nemen.

To the fact that our women are not
well nourished by plain and substantial
food, we add another, that they over
work and, we can account for the some
what anomalous fact that woman's
physical condition does not improve
with the advance OF science and popular
education. While it is true that she is
overtaxed or overtaxes herself, from
kind of seryile regard to customs and
desire for exhibition, a needless and
false display, it is yet still more evident
that care, anxiety, undue seicitude and
Zexoitennent are doing a still more fear
full work of sapping the foundation of
female health. 1t is q. well known fact
that the heavy, non-excitable German
and Dutch females are able to perform
much exhaustive labor, toll, working
on their muscle and sitsnot on their
nerves. "a To us they may seem plod-
! ders, and yet an astonishing amount of
labor is performed in the long day, con-
tinued year after year till old age ar
rives Indeed the labor of the self
poised isnot exhaustive toll, but SYM
metrical development, really adding
force and stamina. nss3nss
They have more muscle and bone,
solid and firm; we, more brain, nerve,
F, excitability, r5sa, go-GheGd. We
acrowd on steam" and are running the
machinery of this wonderful mechanism
at a fearfully destructive rate of speed.
We have an especially excitable, nerv-
! Gus temperament. Our you11g women
are beautiful. but their beauty too often
fades soon after assuming the cares of q
family They are IN haste, more gov
erned by the clock than by Judgment.
They s'timent themselves and expect
their labor to be completed .'on time. ;"
that is, before dinner, so that the after
noon may be given to fancy-work and
the like. There is often fated idea
that s.some one is coming and will find
them in the sudsn or out of order.
Having company isaas great event,
one demanding toilsome cooking, for it
is custom to prepare dishes. for such
that, if intelligent, we would not dare
to give to our own family, not to chill
dren, certainly Regarding such conf
pany as q gang Of spies. as it might
seem, vast amount of cleaning seems
demanded lest some innocent dust, q
stray leaf or bit OF paper, little spider
silk, ETC., might be discovered by argus
/ eyed visitors. Instead of the social
element, q real advantage from these
social interviews they often prove q
while their unnecessary intricacy, on
account of the unusual labor, etc. ;Nen-
ders them less frequent than our higher
nature would Indicate. That was
npbleIexample of uclergyman's wife,
as was assured by her, who made no
other change in the family affairs, when
visited, than to Increase the dishes
and the amount Of food, proportion
afaIva aL93HE1 nIi1aillfid
9 Again, most of oursss nervous wom-
en- stimulate, not all of them by the use
of alcoholic preparations, but by the
irritants of the castor, by strong tea,
coffee, the spices and certain extracts
or essences Al hard days work is too
often preluded by unusually strong tea,
which acts as an irTitant, an excitant,.
the effects, in some respects, being not
unlike those OF. ardent spirits. These,
like, the partially intoxicated person,
/ are certain to labor beyond their real
strength, which must exhaust. We
need no other evidencesof the irritating
nature of fthislteas than the fact that It
produces wakefulness with an absolute
certainty, as watchers well know.
If this irritation is on the nerves, result
ing in the evidence that such "work on
their nerves,'a to this undue and ex-
hausting haste, this is ruinous waste of
vital force, we may add in inference
that much of the prevailing neuralgia
is produced by this nerve excitation.
We may infer, therefore, that all such
excited action and Unnatural effort
must tend to exhaustion, pain, sickness
and d premature death. While hard
work, may destroy hundreds, it is be-
lieyed that this excitability, this toll
under the unfavorable circumstances of
high PRESSURE and these forebod-
| ings. the fruit OF tea-exeitement. etc.
win destroy tens,ofn thousands. directly
| and indirectly. y Dr. Hannaford, ~