Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-17
ARE AMERICAN WOMEN BECOMING HEALTHIER?
By Elizabeth stuart Molcy1

sort OF mystery about this suffering,
about ne pain that makes
them pale and anguid and UNI
happy How absurd this Sc and how
different from the attitude OF men on
tho same subject YOU newer saw q
man, certainly not one who approached
toe normal state, Who TOOK mide ih
his Affections They are ouNIous
enough for care and attention, ! be-
lieve. during tholr Illness, but they ave
eager enough TO get well when sickness
comes and proud Of it when they have
recovered. The sumo should be true
Of an women
u Is absurd TO assume that nature
has designed that one sox should bo
less healthy than the other As q
matter Of fact an disease is unnatural
Pain rs simply the signal which tho
body gives to the Directing intelligence
VI the human being that Il Is being
abused When these warnings are
observed and the cause OF them re.
moved suffering ceases; and the soon
en- these general facts are understood
and honored I'm the Observance by w0-
men as well as mon The better it will
be- FOR the whole race.
! so not intend 90 attempt n fun exc
PLANTATION here of the fact that women
are so much less henthy than men:
but what I want 10 emphasize rs that
there i9 absolutely mo- reason why this
should Doe so. and aG further evidence.
! ann gong 20 describe 70 new ana Inn
portant movement which. proceeding
ON the logical theory that a h wholly
unnatural FOR women TO suffer more
pain than men, has made during tho
last ton years tremendous progress
Throughout The United states and Eu.
rope. This new propaganda rs known
1s the Niuvi movement and had los be-
ginning iu San Francisco, C9i Tho mr..
gauIzation has representa- lives in every
city and town of Importance through
OUT the whole United States. aud many
iu Europe and other parts of the world
The NiaN adhcrents are conducting n
campaign of education. CudaayOriug to
dspel the false custom that has coun.
tonanced ana even compelled ignorance
among women of facts that nre neces.
sary for their own happiness and we'll
being
The lack Of knowledge among women
Of simple hygiene has furnished an op-
porunlty for an enormous amount OF
imposition, am opportunity of which
n.ny have with great alacrity avoiIeo
themselves. The Viavi cult hold that
woman should Know more about het.
SELF They are opposing the Impositlors
which many INSCRIPTIONS practitioners
claiming TO be that which they are not
infict upon women, and they are stay
Ing TO "a remarkable degree the riot
OF the surgeons knife
IN the first place, It should be UNDER
stood that IN health nearly always ~
tho specific result Of general condi-
lions We feel a pain In the head. for
instance. and we are apt to conclude
at once that the cause Of that pain IS
local, that It Is the result Of something
wrong within the skull when MS mat
ter Of fact the pain may be the result
N an unhealthy condition OF the stou,-
ach, the liver the Kidneys. or any other
Of the organs of the body. brought
about by unhealthy habits on mode or
life The pain makes itself manifest IN
the brain because that Is the center mr.
the nervous system.
The next stage is pain IN the region
Of the affected organ itself Unless the
conditions which caused the first signal