Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-20

" ~ ne wrote to seven OF
the worlds most dis
tinguished medical specialists in all that
pertains to women. and requested them to
state what, in their op.rion, is most es-
sential for woman to do and what Is most
essential for her to avoid in order to some
day attain that most enviable condition
fair. fat and forty. Recognizing the inter-
est and value of their replies to all wo-
mankind, we have requested him to favor
us with them, and are thus able to present
the following most interesting symposium:
! DR.. VIM. E. Ashton, demonstration of OBJ
stetrics and diseases of women in the JEFF
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, thus
expresses himself:
I II should divide the life Of the woman
anxious to live to be fair fat and forty
into four periods. namely: Approaching
womanhood, prior to marriage, married
life and old age. In all these periods she
should be careful to avoid everything that
q little careful consideration would show
her to be detrimental to health, and she
should be particular to observe all rules
that common sense dictates as conducive
to her physical, mental and moral well be-
ing. To clothing especially she should give
attention, being careful to resulate 1t in
everything In accordance with the dictates
Of health and not of fashion"
a Our so-Called Civilization.
! : DIR. Thomas Opie, professor of gynaecol-
ogy in the College of Physicians and Sur
geons, Baltimore, attacks some evils of
modern society which are directly inimcal
to the attainment by our women Of that
env;able conditiCn-fair. fat and forty.
~ There is bat little chance for our young
women to ever be fair. fat and forty so
1cEg as they continue to be impressed by
the perni;ious cry of higher and still
higher education for women. just when
they are emerging from girlhood to wo-
manhood. say between tie eges of fourteen
and seventeen. This Is the age of all others
at which the natural strain and nervous
excitement of hard study should be avoid
ed by every girl who hopes to be some day
fair. fat and forty.
But not only dies modern civilization
demand that girl shall be subjected to
the close &C nfinement aid rigorous study
of the modern school. but 1t also forces
her into the unhealthy auditoriums and
ball rooms, inseparable from fashionable
diversions.
"Our so-called civilization is principally
responsible for defeating Gods intention
that every woman should live to be fair,
fat and forty. 1t grossly outrages and vio-
lates natures plan that wonderland men,
too-should live an outdoor life by day
and should rest at night 1t Is Responsible
for the wicked habit of women and chill
dren spending their lives in houses and
densely crowded towns and cities. We
seem to be steadily growing wiser and
weaker, and until 1t Is the case that those
of our women who attain to fair. fat and
forty must be the, exception and not the
rule. The woman who desires to be fair,
fat and forty should marry. for science
confirms natural laws in the view that
marriage is, or rather ought to be, a con-
servator of health and promoter OF lon
that women should undergo the physolog-
1cal changes incident to maternity once in
three years during that period of her life
in which it Is possible to do so. and If she
does not she is liable to have fibroid tu-
mors.
=, "The woman who hopes to be fair. fat
and forty should nourish her own infant
simply the good will of God expressed in
facts. intends she should: No mother
should repudiate nature and substitute art
in the form Of a nursing bottle.
1.-THE woman who lives to be fair, fat and
forty. by observing natures laws. should
live far beyond that period and pass out
of life at last as unconscious of her death
as of her birth, for the cycle Of life COM
pleted, the living being simply sleeps into
death when nature has her way Thanks
to our advanced civilization we cannot
feet form, but we can approximate it much
more nearly than we do"
Maternity Must Not BE Shirlxed.
DIR. E. o. Dudley, professor of gynaecol-
ogy in the Chicago Medical College, thinks
that those who seek to evade the RESPONSE
bilities of maternity as so many American
women are now believed to do, from the
large and constantly increasing number Of
childless marriages, stand no chance of
ever reaching fair, fat and forty, as will
be seen from his letter.
"a woman who cultivates clear con-
science and benevolent disposition, and
avoids can't, has taken long step in the
right direction to reach fair. fat and forty.
Some of the best physical specimens of
women at the age of forty-those who are
fair and fat as well-with whom am ac-
Quainted have taken care to marry clean
healthy men, and have brought up large
families of children. The woman who
shirks maternity will not be fair and fat
If she lives to be forty. On the contrary
she will probably be as weakened and dried
up when she reaches that age as any of
the unfortunate single women whom the
world calls old maids
How to be fair. fat and forty may be
summed up by the words elimination and
nutrition; that is. women desiring to live
to be fair, fat and forty should be careful
throughout life to have the eliminatory
functions of nature by which the waste
products Of the system are gotten rid of
properly performed and to be always well
nourished.
Exercise. bathing, judicious and regular
habits of eating and sleeping. moderation
IN the use of sweets and an abundance of
pure fresh air would all be included in the
proper observance of elimination and nutri-
ton because they are essential to Them
Women Must Study Hygiene.
DR.. F.Winokel is professor of gynaecology
clinic for women in Munich. He gives his
ideas on the subject under consideration as
follows:
eff our women would live to be fair, fat
and forty they must first of all become bet
ter informed in all that pertains to hygiene
and the laws of life. Without a practical
knowledge of these laws they cannot OBJ
serve them, as they must do If they
would attain to fair. fat and forty.
Instead of elementary branches and
so-called Accomplishments, which they
are taught at school. girls should be
taught to know themselves and the great
laws that govern their being, that they
may not through ignorance trifle with
those laws, and thus entail upon them
selves years of misery and wretchedness.
Then our women may live to be fair, fat
and forty"
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Dr. Barton Cooke Hirst, professor of OBJ
stetrics and diseases Of women in the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, at
tacks two of our peculiarly American in.
etitutions, as will be seen below:
- ssTn brief the following are. in my opin.