The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1897-10-23
WHY WOMEN FAINT.

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Some women, Of course, are peculiar
.ly constituted this way. Others i'm
agine they are; and still others think
they ought to be. Some have actually
considered fainting worthy OF being re-
duced to fine artor, rather, elevated
to 1t. Physiologically speaking, faint
Ing results from sudden failure of the
hearts action. Painting, like Group,
runs in families, and may be induced
by unusual fatigue, or anything that
causes a sudden impression on the
nervous system, such as undue excite
ment, or excess Of Joy. F..
There was lady who Invariably
swooned at the sight of a mouse, an
other became equally unreliable on see
ing a black-beetle, and there are fe-
males so delicately constituted that the
Jump of timid, unbusiness-like frog
IN their immediate neighborhood causes
an utter collapse. Comparatively few
women can Withstand the sight of
blood, and cases are on record wherein
a perfectly trivial cut, resulting in a
fractional loss of blood. has been rem
dered a serious mishap, in consequence
OF the deep swoon which has attended
it.
Bitter disappointment is blamable
IN some cases. "A woman who had
been led to suppose that she would
profit largely on certain mans
desease, had buoyed herself up with
pleasurable expectancy, and had been
induced to undertake rather too pre-
mature arrangements. When tho will
was read, and it was found that her
name was not even mentioned, the
lady tainted away. Another hav-
Ing to catch particular train on
urgent business, and arriving at the
station just in time to see the last car
riage leave it, swooned on the plat
form, much to the discontinue of an
astonished porter, who suddenly found
himself embracing another mans wife.
News of an unexpected or portentous
character, suddenly sprung upon GER
tain women, has induced a serious COL
lapse.
A lady some time ago received a
telegram announcing that business
speculation in which her husband was
largely involved had ended disastrous
~. tainted, and remained in state of
n al inc v1c.iI >i1i
able time, in spite of all attempts at
restoration. On the other hand, q
woman in humble circumstances. on
being informed that she had come in
for pretty extensive fortune, swoon-
ed away, and 80 complete was the COL
lapse that it seemed very probable
that her own demise would prevent her
ever touching the suddenly inherited
wealth.
But, as las been said, some women
are adopts at fafnting to order. The
faint is somewhat a common ruse On
the part Of the hysterical wife to OBJ
tain certain cherished desires which
her lord and master considers impol-
itic to grant.
A woman who has seen a duck of
bonne.-, r been frenzied to envy at
the sight of contemptuous neighbor
In "a really marvellous conception of
Dress" has ventured to hint to her
chancellor of the exchequer that she
needed check for the purpose of pro-
curing similar adornment. The fam
lily budget, however, has shown a de-
ficit rather than a surplus, ami on being
told that her desire must be negatived.
the entire household has been thrown
into alarm by the news that "Missus
has tainted" A husbandly reprimand
has also frequently ended that way.
There have been women who have
tainted because it was fashionable, and
others because they were DESTROYS of
captivating the heart of a particular
swain. Lady Hamilton was one of this
latter class, and her ruse was eminent
ly successful, for Nelson succumbed to
it. Josephine tainted whenever Ma
poleon objected to the weight of her
millinery bills.
Others have affected the disorder
simply because they had an idea that
it proved them to be women of tender
emotion, and considered that such
qualities were eminently desirable.
And how many jurymen have from
time to time been affected and their
judgment biased by well-executed
timely female faint in the Witness