Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-18
GIRLS AS PACK-HORSES.
Cruel Treatment of Young Women in tn
Free Land of William Tell.

Free Land of William Tell.
| No sooner are the Swiss girls large
enough to possess the requisite physical
strength then they are set to the most
| servile work the land affords, says the
Baltimore News. The child has a panier
bas ket fitted to her shoulders at the earl
lest possible moment. and she drops it
| only when old age, premature, but mercl-
! full, robs her OF the power to carry it long
er.
| have seen sweet little girls of twelve
or fourteen staggering down a mountain
side or along rough pathway under the
weight of bundles of faggots as large as
their bodies, which they no sooner drop
ped than they hurried back for another. |
have seen girls of fifteen years, bare footed
and bare headed in the biistering rays of
an August sun. breaking up the ground
swinging mattocks heavy enough to tax
the strength of an able bodied man.
have know young miss no older than
these to be employed as porter for carry
ing the baggage of travellers up and down
the steepest mountain lath in all the re-
gion round about She admitted that it
was sometimes vary hard to take another
STEP but she must do it.
And she carried such an amount of bag
gage! A stout-limbed guide is protected
by the law, so that he cannot be compelled
to carry above twenty five pounds, but the
limit to the burden put upon the girls is
their INABILITY to stand up under anything
more. But the burden increases with the
age and strength of the burden bearers,
till by the time the girls have come to
womanhood there is no sort of mental toll
in which they do not bear hand, and
quite commonly the chief hand.
The Effects of Mental Exhaustion.
Many diseases, especially those of the nervous
system, are the products Of daily renewed mental
exhaustion. Business avocatons often involve
al amount of mental wear and tear very prejudi
cial to physical h"Olth, and the professions, if
arduously pursued = NJ less destructive to brain
and nerve tissue. Ii i = Of the most important
attributes OF Hosietterl stomach Bitters, that il
compensates for this undue loss of tissue, and
that it imparts new eu rgv TO the brain and
nerves. The rapidly VII which 1t renews weak
ened mental energy and physical vitality is re-
maTkable, and shows that its invigOrating prop
critics of the highest order. Besides increas
ing vital stamina, and couueractlng the effects OF
mental exhaustion, this potential medicine cures
and prevents fever and ague, rheumatism. chronic
dyspepsia and constipation, kidney ana uterine
weakness and other complaints. Physicians also
commend it a medicated stimulant and remedy
A doctor Of Vienna has invented fluid
the use of which he claims will minimize
the horrors of war. The fluid is to be
placed in shell, which is so constructed
that it will burst in falling or striking any
object offering but slight resistance. The
fluid upon being released SO affects persons
inhaling its oicr that they Immediately
become unconscious and remain in that
state half an hour or more.
Roof gardens have become such popular
resorts in New York during the summer
months, that club meetings are being
! held among the chimneys. The Tender
loin Club will celebrate its first anniver-
sary On the roof garden of the Casino and
dinner and music will enliven the occa-
sion