The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-07-20
SUNSHINE AND FRESH AIR.

Enough mas Deen Seslu OF tne want OF
fresh air and sunshine in women a lives
TO last the century out for all the heed the
sex give TO IL. If women Will give fifteen
hours day in back apartments, where
the sun seldom enters, and take their
only outdoor recreation shopping In hot
stores, the skin will become anaemic,
lose its functions and grow pallid, dead
and thick with wrinkles, which form
most in dull flesh. IL they would only
take care always TO sit in the SUM ny win
dow, and to keep the rooms we'll aired IL
would turn the dial back for their looks
at least ten years out of forty.
But they will not reach this wisdom for
another generation, and / pass to the
fact that women task themselves too hard
to expect TO keep young. Only today q
stranger writes that she Is twenty eight,
has been married over eight years. and
had four children. losing two; that she
goes into society. which she calls lovely,
to dinners, lunches, dancing parties, keeps
house and speaks OF being up nights with
sick children a good deal. Yet she won
ders why when she tires little at dances,
she looks badly, and ehe lines give worn
out look to her face.
Men say that women will drive the
best horse To death, aud they are not moro
merciful to themselves. Suppose this
woman should advertise for strong,
fresh girl of tolerable manners and educa-
tion, and say to her: Il want you to
take charge of our children in sickness
and health. keep the house, do more or
less shopping and sewing for the family,
be company for all my guests and our
own people, do the preserving and the
nice cooking very likely take the place
of whatever servant Is away, and beside
this dress and go out to parties two or
three times "a week, where you must be
lively as a girl of eighteen. You must
be prettily dressed and keep your hair
-. NIL hn
children nice"
What terms do you think would induce
any girl TO take these dutiesg What
price of love and home. think you. would
induce any girl of nineteen To undertake
such life IL she knew It's stress before
hand-I doubt If any lover, however mr.
dent and handsome. would ever win q
wife II she com mprebended what life would
bring her. But entering ignorantly upon
these duties, which tax mind and body,
she insists upon adding 20 them the full
tale of society Drickmaking, and wonders
why she looks worn out. She Is worn
out and she will droop and die as GER
tainly as any overtasked creature long be-
fore her time What she minds more. she
will be baggard and repellent To her
beauty-loving husband long before she
dies
No woman in ordinary circumstances
can rear1four children in eight years and
OF all women, should Dc in bed by 10
o'clock each night II she values her looks.
But one might as we'll talk to women
about turning Mohammcdan as about
going to bed at 10 o'clock. Patti does 10.
and Lucca, and all the great singers
" no are radiantly handsome at an age
wnon other women retire from tho fore.
ground. But these home-performers
think little Of themselves and too much
of empty society chatter even TO forego
being up nights. Can you wonder that
they fadey
Ii Is risky 20 suggest cosmetic aids to
women who are given TO OVERRIDING pro-
cesses which promise improvement in
looks. There really is no remedy for
ugllness which. swallowed over night
will effect a cure In q week. Ill-looks are
the punishment OF neglected health.
neglected perhaps. for generations. Tho
precept, Obedience Is better than saorl-
ilco - ought 60 be written on every door
that 10 might be hecded In going out
and coming In. both for the written law
of morals and the unwritten moralities
of natural law. Obedience. day by day
and hour by hour. TO simple duties is
more a test Of sound brain and moral fibre
than any amount Of tho heroics young
ladies are fond Of asssying. Here In the
heat of summer young women are using
pots OF extravagant cosmetic creams In
hope Co secure blameless complexion, or
spreading their faces with dainty violet.