Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-29

than couple al Tablespoonful OF soup,
a very small bit of fish, and, unless /
am feeling very we'll, no meat at all.
No sweets, a cup of black coffee, and
for bread, prefer cold toast
/ do not ask other people to live as
do, but as mn answering in this let
ter the letters of over 200 girls am
serious when say that unless bad
shuwn this care as to what ! DO eat, /
ahould not be alive to-day. We Ameri-
eau women, forced by the unfortunate
conditions Of Ifs, TO 60 out into the
wors-day world. are a mysterious bun
die OF nerves aud emotions, tied
together with bright scarlet ribbon.
The ribbon should be support to U.s.
but it is not, since its color is continu-
ally exciting us. Therefore, taking uH
as we are, We must make the hest of
ourselves. And she who sits up at
night. Indeed until the late morning
working on the stimulus given by
cigarettes or strong coffee. will soon
cease to work at all; or else she will
become nervous, morbid old womsn,a
burden to the people who have to care for
her. / used to think that the French
women were the most nervous in the
world. Now am conyiEcsd that secs
uerfs" are merely bit OF acting on
their part, and that they are too clever
not to give proper care to their bodies,
and SO to control their nerves. know
woman who spends half her time in
sanitariums and hospitals - young
woman, pretty woman. woman who
by every law OF nature should long ago
have made her husband a father--but
no. she whirlod through the season, she
gave no thought to the wisdom that
might be shown in eating and drink
ing, and she would carelessly say that
life-that is the life that she wanted
should be short and merry one. But
such lives arc not short always, and
they are merry for very littls time.
Tho string that holds the nerves
together may relax bit, Its color may
fade, but the woman lives along,
pleasure to nobody and q terror instead
OF an awful example to everybody.
You look at me as much as IL to ask
if cakes and ale must be given up
entirely. Certainly not, but there are
80 many things that are good and
appetizing aud heHlthful aud cheap. As
a nation We have all the fruit in the
world at our command the whole year
dren have to be forced, sometimes be
whipped to induce them to eat beauti-
full oranges in the early morning. An
orange is more ambrosial and nearer
to the fruit found in the Garden of the
Gods than any other! How many
women do you know who prefer our
wonderful Strawberries, our dainty rasp
berries and our. rich melons, to some
ab.,n inn -, =.
times our of ten, not fit to enter the
stomach of an elephant l think If
had my way. pastry, except when il
was flaky, light and only offered in
small quantities, should have such a
high tariff put upon it that nobody
would buy it. And candies! Every
Saturday afternoon there are thousands
of dollars spent at one well.known con.
fectioners' by young girls who are
going to the matinees. 1t would not be
go bad If they bought little whole
some candy; but. no, they chuose queer
little colored sweets. Sweets filed with
absinthe. with brandy, and with all of
the dangerous cordiaiH. This is an easy
way to cultivate taste for the liquids.
l wish all the women who want to
improve their compilations, brighten
their eyes and make their lips red and
rosy, would write in very black ink,
on d square card, these words: can
the external applications to the face are
useless. Ny face is the diary that tells
of the treatment | give my stomach.
and il that treatment ia bad / will soon
be- old, ugly and by no means pleasant
as a companions. Then let this card
decorate the mirrors before which
beauty poses. Probably you dom t
believe me. Ask your physician. He
will tell you that all the wisdom of the
school of medicine is summed up in the
ounce of prevention that I have given
you, and if you do as IBay, physicians
will not have so many fees, and good
many OF them will have decided
gru1ge against Bah.