Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06


 and In the stores-Results of Petting Our Fads - Monsieur and Madame. Signs.
 In the ladies' parlor of big dry goods establishment the energies of the atten- dant were taxed by three women in hys- terics at one and the same time few afternoons ago The sudden fall of pair of scissors had proved too much for the first victim, and the spectacle of her writhing and twistling figure as half dozen people fumbled at once for smelling salts had overcome the nerves of the other two. It 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 0 scene of utter confusion in horse car, brought about by the mOmentary peril of Q passenger. A brewery wagon had brushed close to the side, knocking man from the platform and under the big horses heels. White with dust he scrambled to his seat, uphurt, in ample season to catch the car again and look about in surprise and almost in amuse- ment on the rows of women, trembling, unnerved, one slipping from her seat ina faint, and two more uttering hysterical screams.
 A popular reader, whose mission 1t is to amuse society, dropped poem from her repertory during the past season because there was nearly always ono woman, sometimes several. in her audience whose nerves were affected by the recital
 A chance mention of Mansfield's Dr. Jekyn and Mir. Hyde at ladies' lunch brought to light the fact that of eight women who had seen the 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 now than they used to be. Probably on the whole they are re- tiring into the background. But under certain conditions the busy social season of the city develops nerves with hothouse luxuriance during the winter, and with the first touch of summer heat the rest of the woman wilts. dropping away from the nerves and leaving them standing ill pie turesque outline.
 It is one indication of nerves that we have been betting our fads, good, bad and ] indifferent, with a fondneSS akin to mania | for some little time. What were more or | less wholesome likes and dislil1es last fall i 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 whatever may be your particular brand. Monsieur and madame disagree. At first they did so peaceably, but one day madame was i'll. Monsieur called Q doctor. He forced medicine upon madame by the strong hand of authority. and by the helI of or in spite of the help of the doctor and the medicine, madame got well. Mon sieur knowns it would be fiinging his domestic peace to the winds if he were te venture an anusion to the circumstanct now. One must have small acquaintance who cannot call to mind three or foul families in which to his personal knowl edge this armed truce exists. Sea ail may bring about a permanent peace.
 Esoteric Buddhism when it goes tn, length of banishing meat from the tabl, occasions much the same condition O things. Even the charities in which well regulated woman delights become t, the ill regulated woman a source of hys teria, as when a woman who supports two beds in a hospital for particularl, painful disease burst into 0 madness o weeping some days since because one o them was empty. Bible readings in par lors by one or two especially gifted womel filled the rooms in which they were hell for months to overfowing. Before the, stopped, few weeks ago, observers ha begun to say that they developed in som impressionable girls hysterical dress, wal and demeanor. The violent colors whic many women wear this summer-reds green and yellows-are enough in them selves to suggest some emotional strain.
 There are people who say that tn woman who does not use cosmetics is nov an exception. This is not true but c the multitude who do paint and kalsc mine their faces the great majority ar victims of nerves. This follows as easil as B after A. Artful beauty means ns tural pallor, the result of late hour : growing later all the time. Late hour mean nerves, and cosmetics commonl mean dirty, clogged skins, which als means nerves. Bleached hair mean poison, which means nerves. Oddl enough the pretty loose blouses which a the girls are wearing just now mean nerves. Primarily they mean tight belt ! to contrast with the fullness above, whic means tight lacing, which means nerves What except nerves can you expect of
 girl who has to keep young man in to to tie her shoe, because with corset thu . fits and gown from her pet coutouriel she can't stoop within touching distant of it herself? Heavy gowns and heav bonnets mean,nerves. Out of door exc else itself sometimes means nerves. Jol j ing in that twisting and racking device the arch enemy, side saddle, very ofte means nerves. The summit of our civi ]. ization, a leisure class mostly compose of women, means nerves. Men grow rit
 that their wives may live life apart fro them, a life whose controlling interes
 are not of 8 sort to divert their min,
 from nerves, and in which reading a1
 study, even without any practical end
 oftener than not breeds fads, and fa s are closely allied to nerves.-Cbicai