The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-01
DIR. SHRADY TALKS.

There is no reason why woman
shouldn't be as healthy as man." said
DR.. George f. Shrady but she is not.
The majority of sick people are among
women. They have earned for them
selves the title Of the weaker sex. Wo-
man is far more responsive and conse-
quently more eXcitable than man, and
loss of vitality always follows undue
excitement. This very responsiveness
IN her nature, which makes her so dear
10 man, invites fatigue instead of sat
lslactory eXhilaratiOn. Take the soc-
ely woman, for an example. She goes
TO excess in everything. Pleasure be-
comes the hardest kind of work to her
She goes all day and far into the night,
ana the next morning she is apt to
waste hours in bed when she ought to
be up getting the fresh air. She turns
night into day, cheats herself out of her
breakfast, and compromises by taking
meal at midnight, upsetting the
rhythm of nature. The best sleep is OBJ
tanned before midnight, between the
hours of 10 and y, and food is at the
bottom of all regeneration. SO what
right has she to expect anything but
physical degeneration.
"On the other hand, the shop girl Is
anxious to make a record, to be pro-
NOTED, and she overstrains. The intel
lectual woman works inordinately, and
so it goes. She is so responsive that
she even goes to excess in taking eXer-
else. It's always just one dance more ;
or let's wheel a few more miles, or
skate around few more times and
instead of stopping when they are
merely eXhilarated and in a condition
to be physically benefited, she goes on
until she is almost exhausted. Woman
| isn't weaker because her constitution
is degenerate, but because she doesn't
| take care of herself.
THE most perfect woman physically
is the most perfect home keeper Her
only worry is to make her home
healthy and happy for herself and to
give health and happiness to her child
ren. When she sticks to that, her
highest function. she enjoys the pleas
ures that come to such a home ration
ally, and does not throw the harmony
OF her physical and mental being out
| OF gear The mediocre woman Is on a
level physically and mentally with the
mediocre man. He makes the home and
she gets the pleasure out of IL for
the family. He is the worker; she is
the general sympathizer. The greatest
need in the nature of man is the COM
Elemental support Of a true woman,
and that of woman is the help Of a
strong man. Women are intuitiye: men
reason. Women develop him by oppo-
sition. John l.. Sullivan told me, when
he held the championship of the world,
that the first success of a prize fighter
| depended upon his ability to take
blows, not to give them. Every man
Is prize fighter in the sense that his
success depends upon his ability 10
take his punishment in this world, and
many who have succeeded would have
failed If they had not had women, with
their wonderful sympathetic respon-
siveness and natural intuition, TO turn
| to. This takes as much strength from
woman as the punishment does from
the man. That's an old figure about
the ivy and the oak, but it's a good
one. A big wind storm comes, and
the strong eak trembles and would fall
were 1t not for the delicate ivy twined
around II. steadying II until the storm
has spent itself.
| 1T requires a woman of steady nerve
20 keep healthy in the enticing environ.
ments of today and women generally
are becoming more rational They are
beginning to see that IL is worth while
to be healthy, They see that they car
enjoy themselves better if they are
well; that they have more appitite fol
work and pleasure II they are physl.
cally sound. II a woman wants any