The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-01-26
EDUCATIONAL.
Female Education Considered From
the Medical Point of View by
DIR. CioustOn.
Manual Training in Pablo schools
Necessary 10 Develop M"chan-
zeal Ingenuity.
kindergarten Schools for Young Ch''-
drcn---Dimc Novel Literature.
EDrCATION or GIRLS,


EDUCATION or GIRLS.
Dr. L. s. ClouSton. in the P0pnJdf
Science MoRthly takes the position tina,
if our females were thoroughly healthy
in original constitution, the cducation'
nlists and their present oycrcntbu,iastiC
methods would not hurt our daughters
permanently. But rs few persons have
fautcss constitutions, there must be "A
Great care rs to individuals. Pointing
out bodily defects, he says:
TIE first bodily defect 70 which |
shall refer. as the result OF ovcr-timu-
lation of brain. is what we doctors call
anmma, or. in other words. bloodicss-
ness. The girls look pale about the
lip. and have no ROSY cheeks, This Is
manifcstIY most common IN school
rirIS. ANY one can see il.
The next faulty bodily condition that
may be caused 10y wrong methods of
education is that OF Stuntcd growth. |
have seen girls, the daughters of we'll
grown parents, who simply stopped
growing 100 soon. They are more or
less dwariish specimens of their kind,
this being caused, rs | believe, by the
vital and nervous force being appropri-
atcd by the mental part OF the brain in
learning its tasks and by the conditions
Of life in the school rooms not being
good, the air bad, insufficient play
hours, no playground, no play-room,
no walking in the fresh air and sun
shine.
have seen other girls who grew tall
enough, but wouldn't fattcn. They re-
NAMED thin and scrawny. Now, this
| is not what Il woman should be ut my
age if il can be helped.
| The next condition sometimes pro-
duccd is hes, described by the word
nervousness. That is u condition of
mind and body in which there is want
of stability and iiXity, undue eXcitabli-
| Is, bodily rcstlcssncsS, want of solidity
and calmncSs of constitution, uDground
cd fears, deficient power of Sell-control,
oycrsenstiycncss in all directions, and
n very great many other unpleasant
things, far too numerous to mention
here. This nervousness is commonly
hereditary, but may he greatly aggra-
tons of life, especially in youth. Such
n constitution is great curse To wo-
man, and renders her liable to many
diseases Ii means a brain wanting in
reserve or surplus energy, Such Il
brain is like Il gaIyanic battery that
does not work steadily. but gives out
too much power ut one time, then sud
denly is exhausted. and is always need
inc rcplcuishing There can be but
modern life is toward the development
OF the nervous type OF constitution, or
dialhcss American physicians and
socialists are unanimous that this con-
-tilution j. very common in their coun-
try. think there can be little doubt
that if we wish our descendants to
multiply and cover the ca?ln. We should
trv by all mclu, and Countcract this
tendency TO the nervous constitution in
morbid degree 1t is most hcredita-
nv in all itr forms. There are few
families among the educated classes
nowadays free from some faint of it,
and il is easily increased. In the FAM
lilies that are now free there Is much
risk of its being developed in the peri
cd of adolescence in the girls, through
the present system of education. All
our modern ways of looking ut life
help to develop nerves in u bad sense.
Tho ideal of man and woman has
changed from strength to culture, from
body to brain. Inc great brawny-
musclcd man. who knows nothing of
sickness. but has few ideas, is looked
down on; the rosy mother of a dozen
healthy children, who has no taste for
books. is little thought of. 1t may be
that the time will come when such
people will be more highly appreciated.
Out of the nervous diathesis may arise
all the forms of nervous disease, when
their exciting causes are put in opera
ton.
Strongly connected with nervousness
is the tendency TO suffer from pain
without any actual disease being pres
ent to account for it; that is, to be the
subject of headaches aud ncuralgias.
Headache is the most common thing
suffered by schoolgirls, and originated
by the condition of school-life. DIR.
Truchler found that in Darmstadt,
Paris. and Nurcmburg, one-third of
the pupils in the schools suffered more
or less from headaches. l think we
should find this proportion in our adj
vanced girls schools in Edinburgh.
He concludes that it Is caused by the