The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-05
FINE PICTURE OF THE HONEY
MOON,

lHe many SupeESLltlOAAo VI INV 1-'N'i "
too many instances shared by the pro
fession, as, for instance, that an egg
is equivalent in nutritive value to
pound of meat; that the various mys-
teries sold in the drug stores as beef
extracts" are sufficient by the tea
spoonful to sustain a famished invalid
or convalescent for twenty-four hours,
more or less, and that milk is the one
grand. important, absolute and univer-
sal food for every breathing thing; if
hygiene could only restrict itself to
such things, it would occupy us to the
very full while the world shall last, but
there are many other errors almost as
widespread and more fatal in their con-
sequences. 1t is almost Incompetent
sible to the thoughtful physician why
the atrocious vice of wedding tours has
not been utterly stamped out. No mat
ter how robust, how tenacious of life,
how full of energy, how many times
the four hundred years, which the good
DR.. Holmes insists should be the time
for preparation for the newborn in
FAINT; no matter what adjuncts TO ease,
of wealth, of education, of refinement
not one of them can stand safely the
dreadful physical and mental eXactions
of the prolonged and, too often, delete
rious excitement of the engaged.
6a .+y In, 80 Ioap that
somewhat unnatural front" which has
attracted and which continues to at
tract the betrothed together with the
six months siege, more or less, of the
most laborious exertion in the prepara-
ton of the trousseau, the exactions,
impositions and fatigues of the dress
maker, the same to s!esser degree of
the milliner, and to crown all the
dreadful hurry and vigils which attend
the few weeks Immediately preceding
! the ceremony.
| With the bridegroom it is scarcely
! less exacting. Whether in business or
whether of leisure, and, like all the
strictly leisure class, driven by the lash
of necessity for amusement, his atten-
ton divided, his habit of life, so far as
| it is then formed, completely subverted,
his hurried and frequently frenzied at
! tempts to regulate his business affairs
in order that he may have nothing on
! his hands to interfere: these cob5ined
produce a condition of the system, both
mental and physical, of both the high
contracting parties, which peculiarly
and positively unfit them for the dread
full exactions Of a honeymoon trip.
Immediately upon the conclusion of
the ceremony the youthful couple pro-
coed with the utmost dispatch to the
train and then begins the most tire
some episode which human beings with
| all the varied ills of life are subjected
! to. To the sensitive; modest young
woman the mental disduiet of appear
! ing to the world in the not~to-be-con
! cealed role of bride is in Itself suffi-
Client; but this must be supplemented
by the discomforts of that Procrustran
travesty, the modern, much overcrowd-
ed sleeping car. The over-studied in
difference Of the bridegroom needs nc
mention here, as this is not intended as
humorous sketch. Arriving, not al
their destination, for their proper desti-
nation will probably be a sanitarium
! but at the city which they have chosen
/ to honor with their incognito they be
! gin a life burdenSome from the very
| strangeness of the room, of the furni-
ture, of the surroundings and the I'M.
familiarity and too often indigestible, II
not absolutely hurtful menu.
| Lnu g,yf4i r
the great majority of them. Hardly
have they swallowed an early break
fast before they are off sightseeing
I and visiting every celebrity within
twenty miles of the city, too often ir
inclement weather, and too often in the
reaction brought about by the months
of strenuous endeavor which have pre-
ceded the trip. 1t does not suffice thai
/ they should thus drag themselves from
post to pillar ostensibly enjoying these
various sights and landscapes in each
others society, while, as Lord Allcasf
says in Fra Diavolo, leach longs fol
his Or her sleep all the day." wei
meaning, misguided friends. who have
been appraised of their arrival, visit the
newly married couple at their hotel ir
the afternoon and evening.
Thus in the very critical time of {
womans life, when above all she need:
the quiet seclusion and comfort of The
home which she has been accustomed
to since girlhood, she is exposed to &
series of laborious mental and physica
efforts which might well break dowr
the strongest and most robust man. Il
1t any wonder that the wedding trip i:
the first and most powerful factor il
the wretched health for many years Of
young American matrons?
No mention is made here of the alb.
surd vulgarities of the would-be witty
sol distant friends of the couple who
signalize themselves by throwing ole
shoes and rice, or in a spirit of gummy
pleasantly paste or tie various label!
and ribbons to their luggage. Thest
things are better left to the strong
arm of the law, which, it is gratifying
to note. has been thrice exercised with
in the last month in one of our larges
eastern cities. Let us pray that W.
may follow in it's footsteps.-JaRnes NJ
Gassaway, M. D., Professor Hygiene
Marion Sims Beaumont Medical Col
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