The Wilmingtonian., 1885-04-04

says HERBERT opencef 9haO eho iN0e v
new generation should be left to the chances
of unreasoning custom, impulse, fancy, join
ed with the suggestions of ignorant and
preiudced nurses
| If a merchant commences business with
out any knowledge Of arithmetic and book
keeping, we should exclaim at his folly, and |
look for disastrous results.
But that parents should begin the difficult
task Of rearing children without even having
given athought to the physical principles
which ought to guide them, excites neither
surprise at the actors, nor pity for their
victims"
This ought not to be- Mental and moral
culture at the expense of physical develop
ment is the mistake of modern times.
There are children in this city, almost
without number, who are forced in their
studies in the school room as is the fruit in
The hot house; this forcing process may be
gratifying to the teacher and fiattering to
the parent, but it is death to the child.
Hystera, tuberculosis, spinal deformity
chronic and acute meningitis stand as broken
monuments that are reared to the madness
: of this forcing process of the schoolroom.
: One of the very worst cases of hysteria
: that has probably ever occurred in this city
J had its origin directly in the overtasking
D of the nervous system in her efforts to keep
/ apace with her little school companions
{ aud this child must remain physical wreck
: in all the gears of her life.
= The Morntng NeWs thus cogenIly refers
to physical culture:--''The physical training
9 | of school children is one of the neglected or
: forgotten arts, and instruction in the wants
e of the physical man receive but little more
IS attention"
# The mortality Of Cholera Infantum every
successive summer is perfectly appalling
n and we are safe in making the assertion
e that more children, under four years Of age,
le die in the summer months from Cholera
" Infantum than from all other diseases COM
S, bined, yet there is not an authority on med.
4 icine who does not unhesitatngly assert that
in the main, Cholera Infantum has its origin
le in and is propagated from agencies which
b. are directly under thsEontrol OF science
m Think Of t-rendeai -Ter the fact tha
les there are absolutely tens of thousands 0
children in this enlightened land that ar
in each year sacrificed to either the ignorance
ot- to the indifference or to the cupidity of mar
re- Every department of science is taking rapi
is strides at this time-never before in the hi
raj tory of the world did the science of med
cine proffer the relief to suffering humanit
on as it does to-day, but tile great questio
ire concerning the vital forces and preservin
ion the general health has not advanced in pr,
| a portion to its Importance, neither has it II
nat ceived that enlightened attention commel
surate with its vastness.
ace As before stated the daily press devot'
po- It's time, energies and space to the currel
md topics of the day-and the medical press
uld teens with technicaities that it is unsati
,tic actory and uninteresting to the gener
reader; hence the opportunities for gathe
see ing information upon sanitary science al
,lli. It's kindred branches has been largely lin
,ro- ted to the system mongers or nostrum sci
ern ers whose object is to mix just enough di
not torted physiology with their doses to mai
me- them go down.
lat- Physical education needs to be raised
a higher plane. There is uinter- depende
ses, cy between mental and physical develo
of ment that canuot be ignored; these chara
now teristics are SO intimately connected al
IBID harmoniously blended together that tn
of must be encouraged simultaneously in t
and child-one cannot be subordinated to t
into other without impairing and disfguring t
ents structure.
ould However strong and comprehensive
to intellect, if it is dependent for its nutrti
steal upon frail and debilitated body it has
nse- force and its positiyeness materially mo
igh fed.
OF what avail is that mind capaeitated
'ster grapple with and analyze the most obtru
self questions of metaphysics, if slight men
be exertion superiuduces physical exhausti'
rue Mcns sana in cOrpOre sano should be e
we blazoned on every household. Pare
,ing, should ever remember that those who
life to come after them cannot fulfill the me
the ure Of their destiny in its supremest me,
pom, ing-that they cannot command that
ltion fluence among men, that mental and mo
ably worth command if the body is impaired
ltion disease.
f all We have thus referred briefly to what
peared as an uncultivated field of jour-
hysi- ism in this city, and its momentousness v
from the terminating influence which begot L
they WIIM1NeroNIAN.
OF While all questions relating to the pres
walton of health and the elongation of /
gard shall be considered of paramount impt
-half ance to these columns, yet art, music,
J, are drama. temperance-in fact all issues aft
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