Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-01
The Sanitary Marriage.
Jules OF CONDITION WHICH SHOULD Blk COMPULSORY
IN NCPTIAL UNIONS.

kULES VI CONDITION WHICH BE COMPULSORY
IN NUPTIAL UNIONS.
The day when true sanitary marriage will be-
come the rule Is a long way or, says the Boston
Herald. The need must be made more plainly
evident. In this country we are developing, from
the amalgamatton OF many strains, q race wholly
new to the world Our Immigrants, as they inter
marry with those who have preceded them pro
duce descendants OF q quicker and more aggressiv.
mental type than their own, and It is noted By
Darwin that the bodies and limbs OF these de
scendants are very nOtlceably longer than thoss
OF their ancestors. During our civil war the uni
understanding those OF foreign descent though
born here-were found, as rule, TO be much toe
long for foreigners Just arrived.
When we shall have learned, and learned TO an
ply, the laws OF proper selection in marriage oill
race ought TO be second TO none In health and ply
ual advancement. wide step toward the needed
reform has been taken by US as a people for faI
more than ever before are we interested In physi
Cal culture, upon which health so clearly depends
There Is promise that 1t Will YET have the hi0f
serves.
our schools now, on account OF the absence or q
proper system OF physical culture are CONSTANTS
sending out into the world young men and YOUNG
women VINO. by reason OF their infirmities, ncvei
OughI 10 marry. And again, our ill-ventilated
countlng-rooms and factories are generating IAN
army the offspring OF which must present every
Phase OF bodily 1mperfection. The remedy FOL
this Is physical culture and the sooner it is recor
nlzed by all and particularly by our educators
the better. Social relormers and phiIanthropists
have here a wide neld for cultivation Let them
impress upon our growing youth the importance
Oh healthy bodies, tremendously developed by
proper exercise. ~
Young women, perhaps even more than vonno
men need encouragement TO strive to secure bOdily
periectlOn Dy proper exercise. They must realize
mat mere beauty Of face, while it attracts and
possibly exclteS the admiration OF some dOes nnf
alone constitute true beauty, which can only he
founded ON perfect health. '' w
"A Another thing which young ladies must remem-
per NO matter how richly nature has endowed
them with outward charms they can retain th.yn
only Ia as ASH iohg as they enjoy good health They
may also De assured that beauty founded on per
feet health continues even to Old age No one 20.
sres 10 see Spartanism revived In these times hmt
we may learn valuable lessons from H. The Snar
so worsniped the beautiful and useful and they
was attained by enforced, wen appointed exercisa
Ihere were but few slckly men and women
among them, None sckly were allowed to marry.
reTns a ~ agaIa were compelled TO do 80: they
certain age were shut out OF the society of women
anu once year were shamed in public Neithe,
,9.s nor glris were allowed 10 marry before ma.
raue mast, LeacneS. This Spartan sytem Of mar.
r.ass, purely Ior the welfare Of the state cODtfn.
ueo lor nve hundred years, and during that tims
mere were produced q succession Of the sfron0ess
si 1u TravesI men and the most healthy and reau.
'At ~. women tnat the world has ever Known
Tnere Is remarkable and self-imposed sem,,v
Jaw Wnicn popularity prevails we are toId thronoS
". 1iazn IN relation to matrtmony Il IL recor.
u who !, AMONG an the highest classes The man
lncate from one or more phystcians that he e Sr.
ilom diseases OF certain character. ana maj ~
- tiee also rom all signs OF any Of che dises ses
Mncn are liable to be transmitted to the offsnrnc
testify that 20 far as they can learn there extsfs
no reason TO believe that the union viii ~ OK.
'nan Ia accord with the laws OF sanitation.