The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03

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history, petrifed language or two.
stocking the poor little fellows out
with one hundred fold more informa-
tion than Plato or Socrates ever poss-
essed, and over loading them 80 heavy
with the burden they become old men
and old women before they are out Of
their teens, and alas, many Of them
are laid away in their graves before
maturity.
The genuine American is the fast
man Of the world. He eats FAST he
lives fast, and he dies fast.
The manual labor and physical exre-
tion which made the pioneer living
reality, has in measure lost its re-
spectability, and the children of the
well-to-do American are taught to look
upon work as degrading Physical
effort in youth strengthens the body,
and is the means of laying up reserve
force for future use. Depend upon it
young man, if you would be successful
in your life work, you must have re-
serve force of body as we'll as brain.
OF the thousands who annually grad
uate from our colleges but few are
ever heard from simply because they
lack the vital force to carry into effect
their stock of knowledge, Great war
riors, distinguished statemen, renown-
ed authors, successful business men
great political and religious readers,
have as a rule been men of strong vital
force. Hannible, Caesar, Alexander,
Napoleon, Daniel Webster, the Beech
ers, Humboldt, Bismarck and Gladstone
are examples of great physical energy
and vital force.
Young America must pull down
brakes and go slower. They must
work more with their hands and less
with their heads during the growing
part of their existence. They must eat
palmer food, and be more regular ir
their habits. They must sleep more
and dress more for comfort than fol
fashion. The younger children must
be kept at school fewer hours during
the day. Too much mental irritation ir
early childhood retards growth and en-
fcebles the entire foundation of the
future man, or future woman. Educa
ton is Il good thing and the more We
can acquire the better. 1t is our prim
ary stock in the business of life, but il
its acquisition we must not interfere
with the development of the physica
man.
Finally, the American mother mus
not be allowed to deteriorate into {
condition of physical weakness by 1
want of outdoor exercise. Great nat
ions have strong mothers. Great mel
are born great. A noted physician
once said: 'If you would raise fam
= lily of great men, select great woman
for wife and any blank fool of maj
for a husband" The Beecher famil,
was Il great family, because they had
great parentage; Socrates, Plato, Cae
sar, Cicero, Napoleon, Bismarck ant
Gladstone had great mothers. Their
is to much ignorance on the propoga
! tion of the human rece. We know
more about domestic animals than W,
/, do about our selves.
J The rosy checked happy school girl
S of today will be women grown in les
L than ten years, and in twenty year
5 hence will be mothers of the comm
(; Americans. If these school girls de
: velop into a strong physical woman
u hood, with large amount of vita
; force, their children and their child
X rens children will inherit these quail
Il ties, and perpetrate them, while o
o the other hand if our school girls ar
5 treated to much like house plants, b
e being kept within doors, and not re
$ quired to take active exercise, ther
+ will be less bodily force, or a CORES
+ ponding smaller life power, and the re
: suit will be a weak mother with fec
II bic offspring, and nation of debilite
e citizens. History tells us that tn
u ancient Scythians, Huns and Teutor
l. had strong women, who did hard labc
81 anu fought side by side with their hu'
Is bands, in battle, and that they CAV
J. birth to their children on the marc
u without hindrance. This fact, {
J. civilization, seems brutal, but it pro,
u es that physical strength can be cult
/ waited and transmitted to succeedir
generations.
d But we are not Huns, nor Scythian
neither are We Greeks, or Romans, bl
Americans. The Roman masses wei
A little less than slaves. As soldiers the
went abroad and led captive the your
men and young women of other nation
and brought them home to ensla,
them, while the young men of Anne
lea liberated three million slaves ma
ing the land free indeed
We live in the nineteenth centul
Our environments are different. v