Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-05-24
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,xrrnusTIxG INFORMATION FOR
" THE WOMEN.

,xrEnEsTING INFORMATION FOR
THE WOMEN.
~. ucnlth Of OF Eirls-Women Not
coo1 Risk.-Alhkrlcnn Girls Crow
,rr TnlIer-CIlfldren's GownsJThe
season's Cont and street Waist.
There is no better way of making
healthy girls than to make the various
branches of science, according to their
taste, a part of their education: there Is
not a gir!. or in fact any individual, WHO
has not a latent taste which, with Il lit.
flo care, eau be developed. If fond Of
drawing or painting, encourage it from
the earliest moment; teach her to draw
from nature, and she will spend hours
in the open air. Botany, mineralogy,
photography, will embrace the roper
torv Of an educated woman as we'll as
Latin and Greek, and n wOman's mind
is capable of accommodating them all,
il necessary.
Unfortunately, the present fashion is
totally at variance, strange to say, with
that of the ancient days of Greece and
Rome. Nowadays it seems that per-
son can learn nothing except in an ill
ventilated school room, in a barrel-hoop
Dostion. The philosophers of ancient
days studied as hard as those Of modern
times, but they sought the solitude of
the woods, and made their studies a
Measure instead of task. 1t is not in
tense study that breaks so many down !;
it is the confined air, the sitting in a
bent position, the loss Of appetite; the
muscular weakness, and the poor blood
that does the harm.
We wish we could impress firmly
upon mothers the Importance Of an
erect carriage in young, growing girls,
/ 1t IS not merely the case that STOPPING
shoulders and curved spines make their
daughters unattractive in appearance,
| but such conditions are absolutely q
predisposing cause of disease; and we
/ that such girls are tit subjects for tuber-
fected with painful periods. To correct
this before the age of puberty should
be the aim of every mother. Make
your girls straight from habit, with
shoulders we'll thrown back, and they
will avoid many troubles in the future.
If outdoor exercise does not seem to
correct this habit, there are certain
movements of the muscles-light gym
nastics-which your family physician
can tell you of, that are beneficial.
One Of the straightest and best-formed
girls we ever SlW--a picture OF health
owed it all to her mother. who, MOTTO
ing a gradual habit of STOPPING, required
her to lie fiat on her back on the floor
without a pillow for one hour each day,
while she read some entertaining book
to her. Another matter, which is i'm
portant in this connection, is the ques-
ton Of young girls wearing corsets.
Fortunately so much attention has been
paid lately to the subject Of dress in
England that those whose opinion is
most valuable have freely expressed
themselves.
We fully endorse the view Of the Lon
don Lancet in an editorial, that corsets
should not be Worn by young women;
their dress should always be made so
as to give free and Independent move
ment to every part of the body; their
garments should be light in weight, and
the burden should fall as much as pos
sible on the shoulders; there should be
no restriction of any part oft he body,
and If Il girls figure needs a corset to
make it shapely, let her endeavor to &C.
complish the same end by the more
natural means Of muscular develop
ment, which will at the same time give
health as well as beauty. A strong
back is far better than a corset-John
NJ. Heating, NJ. D. Ill. D.