Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-11-17
WOMAN'S WEAK NERVE.
WHY CITY LIFE IS so TRYING TO
 THE FAIR SEX.

Nerves on the Street. in the Horse Cars and fin the stores-Results of Petting Our Fads Monsieur and Madame. sIgns-
 In the ladies' parlor of big dry goods establishment tho energies of the atten- dant were taxed by three women in hys- terics at Une and the same time few afternoons ago The sudden fall of a pair of scissors had proved too much for the first victim. and tle spectacle of her writhing and twistl.E- figure as half dozen people fumblcd e.. once for smelling salts had overcome t.o nerves of the other two. IL was noticeable that these sympathetic attacks were most violent and lasted longer than the seizure which had Occasioned them.
 It is no long time since there was scene of utter confusion in horse car, brought about by the uomentary peril of a passenger. 4 Lr.ugFy wagon Lad brushed close 10 the side. knocking man from tho platform and under the big horses heels. White with dust he scrambled to his seat, unhurt, in ample season to catch the car again and look about In surprise and almost in amuse- utnt on the rows of women, trembling, unnerved, one slipping from her seat inga faint, and two more uttering hysterical screams.
 A popular reader, whose mission it is to amuse society. dropped q poem from her repertory during the past season because there was nearly always one woman, sometimes several. in her audience whose nerves were affected by the recital.
 A chance mention of Msnsfeld's Dr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde at ladies' lunch brought to light tho fact that of eight women who had seen tho play one did not sleep at all and two were walked from sleep by the "horrors" after it.
 A woman physician says that one fourth of the patients on her list this spring have been nervous, hysterically inclined women Not that nerves are more prominent nov tan they used to be. Probably on the whole they are re- tiring into the back ground But under certain conditions d., husy social season of the city develops nerves with hOthouse luxuriancs during tLr winter, and with the first touch of summer heat the rest of .he woman wilts. Gr ping away from the nerves and leaving t.eu standing in pie
 
 turcsque outline.
 It is one indication of nerves that we have been betting our fads, good, bad and | indifferent, with a fUadnCss akin to mania for some little time. What were more or less wholesome likes and dislikes last fall grew into passions during the winter, and became sore spots that might not be touched in the spring. It would be neces- sary. for instance. to reckon in high num- | bers to count the households in which 1t Is literally unsafe to mention the mind cure, Christian science, faith healing, or wbatever may be your particular brand Monsieur and madame disagree. At first they did so peaceably. but one day madame was III. Monsieur called doctor. | He forced medicine upon madame by the st rong hand of authority, and by the help | of or in spite of the help of the doctor and the medicine, madame got well. Mon- sieur knOwns it would be finging his domestic peace to the winds if he were 10 venture an allusiOn to the circumstance now. One must have small acquaintance who cannot call to mind three or four families in which to his personal lUOwl- edge this armed truce exists. Sea air may bring about q permanent peace. EsOteric Buddhism when 1t goes the length of banishing meat from the table | occasions much the same condition of things. Even the charities in which a well regulated woman delights become to | the i'll regulated woman a source of hys- teria, as when a woman who supports two beds in hospital for Q particularly painful disease burst into a madness of weeping some days since because one of them was empty. Bible readings in par | I,s.s by ,..ss, ss.e -aFeeislly gifted women | filled the rooms in which they were held for months to overhowing. Before they stopped, few weeks ago, observers had begun to say that they developed in some tmpressionable girls hysterical dress, walk and demeanor. The violent colors which | many women wear this summer-reds, green and ycIlOws-are enough in them selves to suggest some emotional strain
 There are people who say that the woman who does not use cosmetics Is now an exception. This is not true. but of the multitude who do paint and kalsO- mine their faces the great majority are victims of nerves. This follows as easily as B after 4. Artful beauty means na- tural pallor, the result of late hours growing later all the time. Late hours mean nerves, and cosmetics commonly mean dirty, clogged skins, which also | means nerves. bleacuCQ HALT AltdllS poison, which means nerves. Oddly enough the pretty loose blouses which all the girls are wearing just now means nerves. Primarily they mean tight belts to contrast with the fullness above. which means tight lccing. which means nerves. What except nerves can you expect or a girl who has to keep a young man m tow to tie her shoe. because with a corset that
 fits and . gown from her pet coutouriero she can't stOop within touching distance of 1t herselfi Heavy gowns and heavy bOnnets mean nerves. Out of door exer- else itself sometimes means nerves. Jolt. ing in that twisting and rscking device of the arch enemy, a side saddle, very often means nerves The summit of our ciyil- ization, a leisure class mostly composed | of women, means nerves. Men grow rich that their wives may live life apart from them. a life whose controlling interests are not of a sort tO divert their minds from nerves, and in which reading and study, even without any practical ends, ! oftener than not breeds fads, and fads arc closely allied to nerves.-Chicago Herald.
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