The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1891-10-01
The Health of Our Women.

No woman admits that tight lacing
Injuries her; it is some other woman.
The worship of fashion has become so
intense, and the appearance of a rivals
shape arOuScS such q spirit of emula-
ton, that our women continue to squeeze
themselves in steel bands to such de-
gree that the functions of the body can
not go on normally: and the long train
of ills tight-lacers know so well, but the
warnings of which they will not heed,
follows, ending in slow disease and final
wreck Experience seems to teach the
sufferers but little, and the mothers are
as ignorant "a the daughters. Health
is sacrificed for a spiders wa st. Sc en-
titc doctors have been preaching against
these evils time out o. mind, but tie
hcadWay against them is slow. The
academies and colleges for women, how
ever, are getting TO lie more alive to the
importance of the pupils health. The
better class of institutions are equipped
/ with gymnasiums and provided with
swimming pools and other means for
developing til" body and preventing the
hea tn firm breaking down. Tennis
and other outdoor games are growing in
! favor. For a & ri nothing can take the
! D ace of exercise in the open air; not
merely a walk of few blocks. but a
J
/ gait, aud that, too, without much refer
encc to the weather. The girls Of to-
day will in a few years be mothers. The
/ law of hercdity is incXorab G. Strong
! healthy men and finely developed, hand
come women ar not born of Sickly,
weak parents, whose Hood, perhaps,
suffers from the poison that can be
traced back generations. Heath is
beauty, said the old Greeks who lived
in the open air, aud beauty is health -
Baltimore American
Freightcd for the Dead.
tnrc Il year beautiful spectacle can
b. seen along the ocean coast and on
every lakc--of which there are many
in japan. 1t is the feast the .iaI ancsc
MAKE to til" spirits of Their departed
friends None are rich and cnlight-
rEcl that they Go no. DIN in this, aud
there ar none 50 poor in goods and the
old faith that do not claim their portion.
Every family trings o the water edge
AT nightfal paper boat freightcd with
ri G and other ediblcS for the ghosts.
7 he hnat is any 81 they please. accord
ing to the lasts and purse, and some
OF the W ,althirr .lars expand o. this &C
caSion with boats twenty feet long.
These boats, i'll addition to their sweet
and tOo.hsome cargOes, are rugged with
say japanese lanterns. and with these
al alight at IA general signal the feet is
launched No more beautiful spectacle
can be found than this vast flotiiia of
paper ha!Iops present. when with
every colored lantern lighted il silently
picks its course Seaward to the home Of
those loving souls who have gone before,
and who now are to be reminded of
hot Fr'n DO hr,. al Al
familiar feast.
Thousands of Japs ON in this who
have not the slightest belief in its spirit,
and it viii no doubt always i've in it,
tender, sentimental beauty. As it is,
| hundreds of Americans and Europeans
| Join in and launch their boats with al
| the tcrvor Of the laps themselves, re-
| gardng the whole proceeding as in the
nature O. japanese Fourth OF July.
Vapor Poison and Its Antidote.
The morning and evening nlists that pervnde
the atmosphere OF malarious localities canno5
be breathed with impunity. safeguard is
needed to render harmless the DANCE rous MAS
mnta with which they are inpregrated. The
surest, safest defense is Hostetters Stomach
Bittors. 1t is artiote 10 tho poison which
has already been inhaled and borne ftlit, an adj
quate preventive Of its harmful effects No
preparative for breathers of iniaslna tainted air
or drinkers Of malaria poisoned water like th.
Bitters. 1t completely neutraiizes the other
wise Irresistible onset OF the aerial foe. Settler
on newly cleared land. cXcaSators OF canal
routes notably that on the lsthmus of Panama
Western pioneers and euligrants- in short. all
subjected to Inalariai influences IN ar or "ateI
find in Il BENIGN remedy an effectual safeguard
Disorders of the stomach, liver, and bowels, II
grippe" rheumatism and kidney complaint;
remedied by the Bitters.