The Portland daily press., 1890-10-29
AIR ANo EXERCISE.
Second Lecture In the Course Given
BY miss Beecher.

The second lecture in the course which
Miss Beecher is giving at the Falmouth HO-
tel parlors occurred yesterday afternoon at
o'clock and was even better than the first.
The audience was largely increased and in
eluded several well-known clergymen. AS
was announced, air and exercise were es-
pecially considered, involving necessarily a
continued discu ssion of the dress problem
which was taken up In the first lecture. 1t
is impossible to give any adequate idea of
lecture where every sentence was filled
with thought in the limits OF brief
abstract One could but wish that every
growing girl In Portland were in reach of
the voice of the speaker. who spoke as one
having authority, as we'll she may, being
both allopathically and homeOpathically en-
titled to write M. ID. after her name.
After referring to the impOssibility OF
touching more than here and there a point
In the vast realm, Miss Beecher said:
The ethical connection and condition Is
rarely realized. To assume that physical
ailments are often traceable to mental or
moral sources has, until recently, been re-
garded as the height of folly, il not absolute
blasphemy Anger, envy, 1ealousness, greed
and all the mallgn passions were OppOrtunt-
ties for the application OF saving grace,
all their baleful effects were inscrutable pro-
videEces TO which we were to submit, as to
rulings Of an infinite being who was some
how TO extract from them all greater
amount of glory than he could otherwise OF
tain.
Fortunately the demonstration of science,
couoled with the growth Of the spirit has set
ms free from the gross nlaterialism OF the
past.
The provisions Of nature are ample for the
carrying cut of all plans. Her stores are full
to repletion. 1t only remains for us to un-
derstand.
Whatever interferes with a full supply
of oxygen which Is eliminated from the air
In breathing Is a slow suicide. No part OF
the mechanism of the temple of the Holy
Ghost can perform its functions properly
without the air in full quantity ana OF pure
quality.
demned as absolutely suicidal.
Can there be more absurd picture Inan
one of these "lay figures" In full regalia?
The perpetual and persistent interplay be-
tween the physiological and psychological
was strikingly illustrated.
BE good and ,yo9'il be happy" may @ pc
good" Be healthy and you will be happy
and consequently good.
Goodness is rightness. or obedience to the
requirements of right living toward all
things.
Put yourself in harmonious relations with
tine universe Is only saying prepare your
selves for complete happiness.
But what has this to do with air and exer-
else you say? Much every way; IL You do
not believe 1t shut yourself up within the
fOLr walls Of the finest mansion OF which
you can conceive, shut out the pure air, give
yourselt up to inaction and see II life runs
smoothly.
Exercise of all the functions Of the bed,
and all the faculties of the soul Is demanded
by nature. The amount cannot be measured
by any arbitrary rule; the needs Of each in
dividual must be the law OF that individual
Excess Is to be avoided. Know the law, and
this may not be effected without patient, per
sistent study.
In the pleasant Informal discussion which
followed many practical points were still
further illustrated. The care OF the feet Is
especially important. AS they are not SO
we'll ventilated as the rest of the body more
bathing Is necessary, not so much tor clean,
liness as for oxygen. Shoes should pc wei welI
aired, and stockings very frequentiy cIa% ;1 pot
every day II one can anoId !" ~ air
| turn them and air them, While psSS,,v pleo ~, in
| In circulation Is an imperatiye I'M neSV'''
every home, never sit In the dTanen''
Rev. Mr.. Bellows and Rev. Mr.. biii'ns
made brief and pertinent remarks IN re-
sponse to an invitation from Miss Beecner
| for the,gentlemen to talk
The third and last lecture VIII Dc AZ
| O'Clock this afternoon.