The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-06

cure and Christian Science find the Da-
sis for their practice. Women think
too much about themselves and their
feelings. Their interests are not great
enough to lift them out of this self
analysis. A mans career has Its keen
excitement and brings him into contact
with all sides of the world The ordl-
nary Woman's life Is a round of petty
duties, domestic or social. She doesn't
get out Of herself. If she works she Is
usually driven to the kinds of work
that involve the most worry, worst air
and least pay. If she Is rich she fritz
tiers away her strength on social and
domestic detail. There are infinitely
more cases of neurasthenia among So
clety women than among working wo-
men, and 1t Is natural enough,
Frequently the condition Is due to
folly, but, very often, 1t is not. A SO
ciety woman who keeps up Il country
home and a city establishment, wres
ties with the servant problem, enter
tains, is good mother, wife and hos
tess, lis usually tried beyond nerve ca
pacity, Without any folly or absurdi-
ty, her nerve force is literally worn out
by the duties that her station entails,
l believe in education for women. IF
women had more colleges, more physi-
cal exercise, more training of mind and
body, greater and broader interests in
life, we would hear less about the evil
effects of over-pressure and the So
called nervous prostration.
Men work as hard as women, per-
haps harder, but they are not called
fN,, +Jon 4,.tfI tpF,
details. 1t Is the incessant call upon q
woman in trifling matters that wears
her out. A man can not understand
that.
THE enormous detail of modern life
accounts for the increase of nerve dis
orders ! believe. All the things that
are intended to simplify life but only
it, get upon the nerves. If
woman didn't have to bother about
bonnets and needles and pins, she
wouldn't mind work. All domestic and
social problems are more complicated
than they were, In spite Of all the labor
saving innovation. Every detail of liv-
ing Is more elaborate. Why, just look
at the mere matter of spoons, See the
kinds of spoons the we'll supplied table
must have. In the old times, if young
had a dozen solid silver tea
spoons and another dozen tablespoons,
she was all right. When dessert spoons
crept in, they seemed over-ela boration.
Now look at the outft-bouillon spoons,
orange spoons, melon spoons, bon bon
spoons, spoons of all sizes and shapes,
for all imaginable purposes,
1T is with everything else as II is
with the spoons nowadays. The very
sight of woman's silver toilet articles
s wearing, and the small ware counter
If any shop is enough to promote neu-
asthenia--doZens of kinds of pins,
bins big and small, short and long, pins |
with heads of all sizes and colors.
They make 1t almost uncomfortable. I |
lave small ware counter of my own, |
ticketed in separate COM
oartments I've a theory there would |
,e no nervous prostration If the world !
we're sufficiently plgeon-holed. but
ometimes l think keeping track of the
'igeon holes would wear one out
IT went into a shop to buy lace the
ther day and the thousands of pat
ems of lace were positively depress-
ng When one thought that all of |
hem were to be woven into women's
lothes, with all the imaginable intrlca-
y Of design and detail, the thing was
imply empowering ! don't know
where this over elaboration Of detail
eill end, or where we will end If it
oesn't end first
But isn't the increasing popularity
f out of door sports offsetting the pre-
'afling nervous strain to some degree,
octor?" asked the reporter hopefully.
Yes, and no. 1t Is doing the men a
'orld of good. The golf craze Ia pos
tive boon to our business men, and Is
aving innumerable men from nervous
iseases. no certain extent the out
f-door sport fad is helping the women,
DO but the trouble with the women in
his, as In all things is that they go
lto it too furiously. They do not give
p their other interests or duties, which
1ere already as much as their nervous
nergy could stand. They merely add
to the rest. A certain amount
the fresh air exercise Is tonic for
1em. Beyond that it is strain, unless
hey can abandon other occupations
nd rest between sports.
"You can't make the average girl un-
eratand that She gets up and rides
orseback before breakfast; then she
lays thirty-six holes of golf, with a
rief interval for luncheon. After that
he drives or sails or swims or rows.
alter there Is dinner, where she must
e vivacious and entertaining, and she
robably dances most of the night. At
lie end Of the season she collapses and
omes to doctor to be patched up
he feels terribly injured. What's the
snse in being i'll when she has been
king such good care of herself, stay
g out of doors so much and taking !,
ny amount of exercise! ,,
women who cannot take the time ..
n such jealous exercise still do often ,
olf and tramp, &C., when they are too ,
UGH worn to get benefit from it, and
lould take their active exercise in
TALL doses OF course 1t would be bet
r to SESSION the other fatiguing strain :,
I'd take more of the out-of-door sport, ,
1t sometimes that is impossible" .
How is neurasthenia to be cured?"
The doctor who had been half Jest ;,
g, half serious, became wholly eeri- =
Is .
That depends upon the condition of !
e patient, the extent of the harm :
me. Sometimes a complete rest cure >,
the only remedy. The nervous APP -
ratus has wholly given way. The =
tents nerve force is utterly depleted. =,
lie Is anaemic; there is no nourish- :,