Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-07-29
DELICATE GIRLS.
9esys Cheeas sn4 Elas4ls Stepe Better
Than Pale 1Se6E; and Headaches.

!9ssys Chsssu snI Elas4ls steps Better
I Than Pale 1ssAc and Headaches.
From an address BY Dr.. r. II
Hodges before the Massachusetts Med
zeal Society:
4 justly distinguished master Of the
Girls High and Normal School In this
city is reported to have said that .
principal qualification for the Office he
held should be a good medical educa-
ton. The first hour of HIS school-day
was spent in goingfrom room to room,
at the call Of .cuchers, to see pupils
who tainted or vomited, or were in
''spasms," in mysteries, or in some
other way had come to pass which
alarmed the inexperienced. These
phenomena he clearly recognized as
due to fatigue, insufficient sleep and
the want of an adequate breakfast-a
meal which these girls were too tired
to eat, or which they did not think
worth wasting time upon. when home
duties demanded their cooperation, a
morning lesson was to be looked over
or neglected task to be made up. ard
q long walk interviewed between their
homes and the school.
The special provocatives of delicate
health in young women are in great
part social. The deleterious influences
OF multiplicity of engagements, of
the exacting demands of ambition,
fashion and gayety-and not infre-
quentIy of an early betroshal-are in-
tensified by the capacity for endurance
which belongs to the so-called weaker
sex. A girl can tire ont her partners
in the GERMAN" one after another, and
a feeble wife can. carry her baby twice
as long as her athletic husband. The
more strain there is upon the strength
of women the more completely they
forget themselves and their nsaterial
wants. They submit and give no signs
of their emotions to the depressing in
fuences Of misfortune or an unhappy
home. They suffer and are silent with
what have been called .'bad husband
headaches" They stiflc wounded
pride which is deep in proportio. to
the smallness Of the family incOmeand
yield to the aggressive attacks of neu-
rotic influences (the least wearing of |
which may be. the mental) only vixen
the limited energy their bodies possess
is exhausted and which, when once
lost, they rarely have the physical
capacity or power Of mechanism toTs-
place.
The bodies, axd BRAINS of young |
women in the wealthiest and most luEt
uriors circles of society, constantly ro..
veal their imperfect nutrition. Refined
fair an8mic complex
ions, eyes made brilliant by dilateD |
pupils, ousseoncealment of unde-
veloped busts and slender arms, excit--
able and restless ten>peraments-
ing sometimes in self-control, but
oftener sobered by overconscientious--
ness-are the retribntive symptoms
which betray lack of food. sleep,
fresh air and repese. Some of those
who embody these conditions delight
TO think that providence has distin- |:
yuished them from the common herd /
BY certain peculiarities of constitution. +
and they cherish with great self-satis- /
faction their supposed idiosyncrasies in :
regard to what they eat and in refer
snce to various habits of life. They do +
not know, or are unwilling to admit, (
hat want of tone," of which they
is only another name for
The inertia of exhaustion. - Boston
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