Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-08-16
FOR THE LADIES.
III Health of Women Woman's Figure,
Ideal and Real A Heroic Wo
man Notes, Etc.
nI Menlth OF Young women

Ill Health or Young Women.
Mrs. Rose Terry Cook, in a letter to
the Boston Globe, argues that 1t is no
wonder that many young women and
girls are unhealthy, for their mode Of
life Is SO very unhygienic. She says:
They 20 to bed at night and fall
into sort of stupor; why not?- Is
there one breath of fresh air In their
sleeping box? DO they ever, except
in the heat of summer, have so much
as a crack of the window. open? If
there is a fire. place in the room or a
stovepipe hole don't they close them
up as tight as they can? No wonder
it is SO hard to wake up In the morn
ing. l can hear them groan and moan
and yawn and scold now, at the i'm
perative summons to get up. And
what do they find on the breakfast
table? Sweet fried cakes, something
in the shape of meat, generally fried,
potato either fried or stewed, hot
coffee, and probably "griddle cakes"
fried of course. Now, am not going
on a crusade against the frying pan,
for it has its uses, but when see a
girl sit down at the breakfast table
with dull eyes, a sallow face, a listless
manner and proceed to make that
early meal of strong coffee, sweetened
cakes, fried pork and potatoes, with a
sequence of griddle cakes literally
buttered and drowned in molasses, L
feel like shutting her up for weeks
starvation on bread and water.
Then there is dinner; tough meat,
baked vegetables, pie, any kind of a
pie with crust either tough or sandy;
tasting strongly of lard and filled with
things most convenient. A fayorite
pie in our homes is constructed of
sliced lemon, flour and molasses, baked
in a mass, as unfit for the human
stomach as a stewed rubber overshoe.
Tea time brings cakes Of various
sorts, probably more pie, cheese, fruit
preserved, and so i'll done it is fer
mented, or canned fruit, which is COM
paratiyely harmless, strong tea and hot
biscuit. Repasts fit for
.. "a cassowary,
On the plains OF Timbuctoo."
Then to begin the day again. After
breakfast they run up stairs and
spread their bed with all the exhala-
tons of their bodies during the night
still imprisoned in it. At bed time
they slip into their unaired beds after
hanging the dresses they have worn
eight of ten hours in that tight shut
closet, and repeat the experience of
the night before.
snow they have sown the seed,
What shall the harvest be-"
If it is winter, heavy cold; the
misused lungs, forced to breathe over
and over air that has no vitality in it,
air that is absolutely noxious, become
congested more or less, and they begin
to cough and sneeze. If they have
scrofula hidden in their constitutions
and how few people have not-the
harvest of this planting will be bron-
chitis or consumption.
The next crop is dyspepsia; they put
into that delicate organ, the human
stomach, already disguised by the hard
labor of its next neighbor, the lungs,
and weakened by the slow circulation
of vitilated blood, vitilated by the bad
air, mass of indigistible stuff that
they call food; at first they 10 not
notice any special effect; they are
young and strong and can bear good
deal of physical misfortune without
much trouble, but after a time food
begins to distress them, life gets very
tiresome, they have acid tastes in their
mouths, heart burn, liatulence. Yes,
i know these are unpleasant things to
talk of, but they are great deal more
unpleasant to have.
Then they lose their rest, their APP
petite, strength courage, cheerfulness.
This is a bad crop; it realizes the
primeyal curse: "Thorns and briars
shall it bring forth unto thee"