Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-03-23
EADE0 GIRLS.

Aucic arc hDunOant reasons VIII
many young men are elder at twenty
nvs than their grandf.thers a, seventy
nve. They drink. they smoke, the,
chew tobacce, they debase and debauct
themselves: they use poison enough
evefy dav to kill boy ten years old
ConmencinR such a coJrse in early life
1t is not strange that old age finds then
before they ever attain the strength anC
beauty Of mature manho,d.
But the exhAu std and faded eondi
ton OF " men - not, As rule, to b<
accounted for in this way They do no,
smoke tobacco, they do not drinh
hqnor, they do not indulge in certain
vices that often roin young men: and
yet, IN point of fact, they rye quite as
fast and decay quito 40 early AZ men
W. have seen numbers Of school girl
and young women. from Is 70 u, VII,
looked older than they b ad any right "a
look at ~; who were pale and sallow
who had sankeu chseka and hollow
ey.s. and all the marks OF wcarlness
exhaustion, age and decay.
moments consideration would shOs
us that man or woman at the aye Oi
a5 or ~ should be In the prime Of health
strength and bea1ty-ripened. but moi
decayed full Of manly power AID
wOuanly grace, with strong muscles
rosy cheeks, bright eyes and forms elias
tic, plump and vigorous. Instead of
this. We see persons at y who have los,
the last traces Of their early beauty
whose cheeks Are pale, whose faded lips
have lost every suggestion Of health and
freshness, who have false teeth in their
mouths, false hair on their heads, false
color on their cheeks, false muscle on
their forms, and who are in a chronic
state OF feebleness, nervousness and de-
cay. And this exhaustion is not the
result Of family cares and burdens, fol
many Of the unmarried women are
qn,te as ha2Rard III appearance and
wretcbed III health as their IN arried SIS
ters.
What IL the cause of all this waste of
human life which sends so many per-
sons 90 the grave, just at that time
when. having passed the portals Of
youth. they should be prepared for
thirty or forty years Of active and infiu-
entiai service in the world. OF course
IN the mind of fools it is all the Result
Of some IN, steriOus providence - but
more careful consideration assigns
definite Causes for this decay, among
which may he mentioned the following
First, a style Of dressing which for
bids the expansion of the Waist, the
30 It Of the vital organs; 10 that most
women are no larger about the waist at
thirty than they are ut fifteen. They
have grown everywhere else, except
there, where they most needed to grow.
Other portions of the body are guarded
hxy hnnA, rwhsAk, pausoH
waist Is left unprotected, simply that ii
may have freer opportunity for ex-
pansion than any other portion of the
human frame. Just here, Satan, the
dresslnakers, and the fools combine
their efforts to prevent all expansion,
and sometimes to reduce to the smallest
possible Dimensions, the space which
the Creator has arranged for the per
fOrmance of the vital offices upon winch
all healthf0l human existence depends.
The stomach is compressed against the
spine, 80 that it cannot properly digest
fosd, the constant expansi sion and mo
tion which it should have with every
breath is interrupted, the appetite
ID hereby ruined, and food is only
taken III small quantities the lungs are
cramped into the upper portion of the
chest, instead of being allowed to ex-
pand downward, as Is natural, making
huge shoulders and causing that heav
ing of the chest 1T every deep inspi-
ration, which IL so unnatural and So
nearly universal among women. limit
ing aud diminishing the amount of air
to ken into the luLgs, and of course thus
preventing the proper aeratiOn of the
blood, and rendering red cheeks and
good health An inpOsslbility (; the dia-
phragin, the great organ Ut respiration,
is crainpsd and confined, and rendered
inactive, while as regards the Contents
of the lower part Of the body, every Or
gan IL cro,e'ed ont cf place by the oOm-
preston of the waist, causing endless
miseries, diseases aud difficulties which
enrich doctors, but run women, untit-
ting them for the privileges and duties
of motherhood, cOndemning them to
life long misery and causing pains and
ailments too numerous for present men
ton.
Thus deprived Of fosd and air. the
poor woman is languid aud feeble; lack
ing nutrition, she seeks for stimulants,
which she finds in tea, coffee, Op um,
bitters, drugs and strong drink, and so
drags out weary life aud sinks into
an early grave. leaving two or three
sickly orphaas behind her. and hus-
band who shortly goes hunting around
To find him another wife.
The whole procedure is an outrage
upon all the principles of health, right
cOnsneS and religion. The bodies
which God himself has fashioned aft r
heavenly models are destroyed. debased
and bu * ed over by DIRE 'smak n9 blook
heads who with Internal ingenuity con
trive to waste more cloth and create
more misery than an ordinary mortal
could b licve to be possible. Aud faded
girls, with stolnaohs compressed till they
oan neither eat nor digest u decent din
her, with lungs compressed until they
cannot take u full breath to save their
lives, view their sunken cheeks and
scrawny arms aud fTiZZled hair. and
81 III for the freshness aid boAuty of
eiriheod, which. alas. has forever gone.
They must get married before they are
twenty. or they become suoh guys that
nobody will want them ; while If they
would return t. simple Weth DIS Of liv.
ing, taking abuDd ant sleep, dressing
loosely, breathing freely, eating simple
food, and ceasing to drink drugs and
dye stuffs, they Would grow young fcr
ten years to come, and be beautiful AZ
long as they lived. But, alas. to dc
this requires independence and Wis.
dom, and - the unwise are not ali
dead.-The .rhristian.