The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-08-06
1T RUINS THE HEALTH
1oO Early Entry Into Social Life
z Works Harm to WOmanhoOd.
Or. FeatoH b. Turck Declares Reason
Women Break Down So Early In
Life - Due to Corset and
Insuaieient Exercise.

Life - Due to Corset and
insufficient Exercise.
Corsets and the forcing of girls
into social life at too early an age
result in the early collapse of women
and the many cases of nervous pros
tration which wreck women's lives,
according to DIR. Fenton B. Turek, Of
Chicago. The artificial system of
education which surrounds a girl
from the time she can walk is mainly
responsible for the utter breakdown
of the system before woman
reaches the age of IS, says DR.. Turek,
and the many stomach and intestinal!
troubles with which women are af-
ficted are the result of tight lacirg
land the desire of mothers to dress
their daughters for society and to
show them in their prettiest before
the world.
THE little girl starts with her
dolls, which keep her in the house.
The boy. gets a wagon and goes into
the open air and wheels dirt. The
little girl Is made show of all the
time because the mother takes par
donable pride in her appearance. The
boy can have dirty face, and the
mother win say: oh. he is boy
The girl is tied to looking pretty, and
she must not soil her frocks. The
boy gains in strength and the girl
loses in proper development.
when the girl goes to school her
mother fondly wishes her to excel in
her studies. The boy is allowed to
: play as much as he likes. The moth
Y er takes more interest in helping her
girls in their studies than she does
her boys, because the latter have
been allowed natural liberties and
rebel against schoolbooks.
"Then comes the age of the corset.
which is placed on a young girl dur
ing the most important period CT
n physical development. The slightest
pressure on the thorax at this time
will contract II and bring in it's train
| series of ills which cause the break
down of women in country towns as
well as in big cities.
Mothers cling to the false educa-
tion of girls because IL seems to be in
the fashion. II the parents of a girl
are poor the girl is sent into fac
tory or dry goods store, where she
loses much of her nervous strength.
IL the parents are well-to-do the girl
is forced into society. but does not
succumb as. early as the poor girl he.
cause she has better food and
breathes better air when away from
society functions.
"Then the girl marries, bears chill
q dren and has the care of household.
II The nerves cannot stand the strain.
III The stomach has been abused and
u forced out of its natural place by the
use of the corset. When woman
collapSes il Is called nervous prostra-
tion, but most Of the trouble comes
from the artificial atmosphere In
which a girl lives from her early
years.
"Physicians earn most of their fees
because mothers will not give their
daughters an equal chance with their
l boys to get strong. Lately. however.
4 there is an inclination to make il I'M
L fashionable for women to be weak.
q As soon as this idea becomes popular
\ there will be less need for doctors,
3 and there will be fewer eases OF nerv-
Gus prostration amonk women. I do
mot believe in surgical operations
where the stomach has refused to-
perform its functions. The corse.
should he abandoned and the muscles
lleDf the walls of the stomach should
be exercised in order to bring them
back TO the ordinary performance of
fheir functions But the aid of physi-
2fcians would be unnecessary if moth
esers began the training of their girls
as early as possible"