The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-05-27

SeUlleu communities. Inc young men are Dy
| no means blameless, but innocentIy the young
women also at fault. Tho fact of the mat
ter is that city aud tOwB-bred girls are too FREE
quently semi invalids, without fully realizing
it. ~ar
"One of the saddest things in life is to watch
young women commit slow suicide. Of course.
they don't know what they are doing. Start
ing with good health, strength, and good looks,
every thing ahead of them seems promising.
But they don't know how to live and take caro-
Of their own health. Their mothers
mainly at fault. They bring up their daugh-
tiers IN an atmosphere of false delcacy and in
utter ignorance of the anatomy distinctly femi-
nine and its all-important functions.
These young wemen study Latin and Greek,
go in for mathematics and ethics, bnt are faulty
In their habits of eating. breathing walking.
seeping. dressing, and working. Worse than
all else, they ignorcnt as Unborn babies
OF the real and sublime Importance of capable
motherhood and of the craver results that fol-
low neglect of the delicate organs that make it
possible. Moreover. Health is Beauty, and
Health is Happiness Where there is health
there is always amiability and some degree of
beauty. There may be sickly imitation of it,
such as We see but too frequently on the city
streets and in the city drawing-rooms. But
this transient hot=house lOveliness Of the inva-
lid is such as to excite pity, sympathy. and con-
sheraton, but not to awaken love in the heart
OF robust, hard-beaded young men.
" And the conbeq dencc Girls grow np to
womanhoOd and pass ON into unnatural spin
sterhood, because of their ignorance of the i'm
partance of thsafealth and welfare Of the
womanly organism. They suffer in silence
from weakness aud disease that rob them Of
their health, their beauty, and their capabiiity
to perform tho duties OF wifehood and mother
hood. They Imagine, iii their pitful ignore
ance. that the ills from which they suffer are
ftar ant inn rI.ax, Il
| stand that health is, the normal tendency of
| nature, and all iilness abnormal.
" From these innocent sufferers, love turns
aside. The young snan who is worth marry
ing is ambitious. He looks forward to making
"A fortune in business, name in profession.
lie understands that he cannot live always,
and dreams of perpetuating that fortune or
| nanie in a line of healthy. capable descendants.
He wants healthy wife, who will preside
| aniabiy in his home, and be capable. motherly
! mother to robust and promising children.
That kind of q young man, and it is the
only kiud fitted for young husbandhood, SHES
at the cvancscent beauty of the semi-invalid.
He has seen invaidism Ira the homes of his
friends, aud if he is a city bred mau has seen
little else. and with modern hard -headedness
wants none of 1t. While waiting for his ideal,
the habits Of bachelorhood become fixed, with
the result. As in France that the government
may soon have TO drive men to marriage by
tax Oh bachelorhood."
There is necessity for this deplorable
state Of affairs. If all young women were
taught by their mothers the supreme import.
ance Of the perfect health of the organs that
make wifehood and motherhood possible in
validism among women would soon BIO
| matter OF aucicat history. There is hardly
disease. either general or local, from which
women suffer that does not have its inception
in weakness of the distinctly feminine organ
ism. The suffering wife and mother, racked
with pain, petulant, sckly, aud untitled for
the duties of life. is only at fault in so far as
she is ignorant of her own physical makeup
and the Importance of her werzanly health.
II she Will take the proper care of herself and
resort to the right remedy any woman may be
healthy, happy, capable wife and mother,
and i'll some degree beautiful
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