The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1888-11-16
THE SANITARY MARRIAGE.
Rules by which Scientific Men would
Govern Our Young People.

Rules by Which Scientific Men would
Govern Our Young People
The day when true sanitary marriage
will become the rule is n long way of.
The need must be made more plainly evi,
dent.
In this country We arc developing, from
the amalgamation OF many strains, n race
wholly new to the world Our immi-
grants, as they intermarry with those
who have preceded them, produce de
scendants OF a quicker and more asgres-
sive mental type than their own, and il is
noted by Darwin that the bodies and
limbs OF these descendants are very no
ticeably longer than those OF their an
cestors-
During our civil war the uniforms
manufactured to fit the average Amer
can soldier-including those of foreign
descent, though born here-wero found,
rs rule, to be much too long for for
eigners just arrived.
When we shall have learned, and
learned TO apply, the laws of proper selec-
tion in marriage, our race ought TO be
second to none in health and physical de-
velopmeut, and that means also intellect
ual advancement.
a wide step towards the needed reform
has been taken by MS as n people, for far
more than ever before are we interested
In physical culture, upon which health so
clearly depends. There is promise that
it will yet have the high place in the cur
riculum of education that il deserves.
Our schools now, on account of the alb
sence of n proper system OF physical cul-
ture, are constantly sending out into the
world young men and women who, by
reason OF their infirmities, never ought to
marry.
And again. our ill-ventilated counting
rooms and factories are generating an
army, the offspring of which must pre-
sent every phase of bodily imperfection.
The remedy for this is physical culture
and the sooner it is recognised 10y All. and
particularly by our educators. the better.
Social reformers and philanth ropists have
here n wide field for cultivation. Let
them impress upon our growing youth
the Importance of healthy bodies, har-
moniously developed 10y proper exercise.
Young women, perhaps even more than
young men, need encouragement to strive
10 secure bodily perfection by proper ex-
ercise. They must realize that mere
beauty of face, while ii attr.ct and pos
sibly excites the admiration OF some. does
not alone constitute true beauty, which
can only I've founded on perfect health.
Another thingwhich young ladies must
remember:
No matter how richly nature has en-
dowed them with outward charms they
can retain them only long as they en-
joy good health. They may also be AS
sured that beauty founded on perfect
health continues even to old age
No one desires to see Spartanism re-
vived in these times, but we mSy learn
valuable lessons from it. The Spartans
worshipped the beautiful and useful, and
they took means to secure them. Bodily
perfection was attained by enforced, we'll
appointed exercise. There were but few
sickly men and women among them
None sickly were allowed to marry, and
NIL in health were compelled to do 30: II
they refused they were punished. Bache-
lors after u certain age were shut oct of
the society OF women, and once year
were shametl in public. Neither boys nor
giriswcre allowed to marry before mntur-
ity was reached.
This Spartan system of marriage, pure
" for the welfare of the state, continued
for 500 years, and during that time there
were produced a succession OF the strong
est and bravrst men and the most healthy
ard beautiful women that the world has
ever known.
There il II remarkable and self-imposed
family law which popularity prevails, We
are told, throughout Brazil in relation to
matiimony. It is Recognized among all
the higher classes
The man who Is about to marry is
required TO furnish u certificate from ono
or more physicians that he is free from
disease OF a certain character, and that
he il free also from all signs of any of the
diseases which are liable to be trans
mitted to the offspring.
Not only that, but the physicians con-
suited must testify that as far rs they can
learn there exists no reason TO believe
that the union viii be other than in ac-
cord with the laws of sanitation