El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-13

Curealps pills. Other anaemic and lazy
women follow in her wake to his door
and his fortune is mace.
WOmen's Besetting Sin.
Tn my opinion, the besetting sin OF
women is laztness. Does anything else
account for the way they congregate
in hotels and boarding houses, except
house? Because they dread the worry
and work OF seeing about meals and
dealing with incompetent servants. they
deny themselves all the sweet privacy
Of home Yet there Is no other such
deadly and relentless foe to a woman's
good looks and health as the boarding
habit.
all the lotions and beautifiers in the
world are going to enable here to keep
her figure and complexion. Think OF
the daily routine. with its aimless mo-
notony. and cease to wonder that II
makes invalids.
Madame gets up late in the morn
ing, with no definite purpose in view
bat getting through the day. She de-
sends languidly to breakfast, and, that
over, lounges in the parlor until her
room is set in order. Perhaps, If she
feels very energetic, she gets on the
patient and long-suffering clerks
amuse her by pulling down piles or
goods while she INDUCES in the pas
time known as shopping for samples
Then she goes home 10 lunch. dawdles
through the afternoon, eats enough for
a workingman at dinner, and at bed
time finds herself the victim Of insom-
venges itself for such an outrage by
giving her sallow complexion and q
rebellious liver?
"Of course, before long her mirror
tells her she has gone off in looks,
and she HES away to the complexion
specialist. who steams her and kneaos
her and plasters her over with pastes
q nd Lott hut l. M
feiting the look Of health. The quick
rush of good, red blood through her
veins, the strong and supple muscles.
speak for themselves and are not to be
The woman who IS the victim or
boarding wonders how it is that poor
Mary or Sallie. who Is only moderately
well off and has to do so much OF her
own work, keeps her complexion and
looks SO young and we'll, while she.
who has nothing on earth to do and
has every luxury. Is grown hopelessly
stout and ugly.
ut doesn't occur to her that work in
moderation. without worry, is the very
best blessing that ever befeu the hu-
unmitigated curse, and responsibility
as an evil she is perfectly justified
In shrinking whenever she can. ct all
the ingenuity of man has never been
able to devise any scheme of exercise
as good for the general human needs
as old fashioned every day work
Another potent cause of i'll health
among women who have nothing to
do" continued the doctor. revertins to
his original topic. Is that they have
too much time ! to think about them
selves. That is the greatest calamity
on earth. The woman who is too physi-
cally lazy to keep house or keep up
some systematic occupation Is general
ly too mentally lazy to care really to
use her mind She is given to silly and
sentimental novel reading. and she va
ries this diversion by imagining that
she is i'll.
The Favorite Disease.
"Of course she doesn't feel we'll
Nobody could who lived such an ex-
istence Then she begins to canvass
~ she decides on nervous prostra-
ton. which has an air of dealing with
glittering generalitieS and is q handy
amateur kind of disease TO have, be-
cause 1t doesn't often Interfere with
the things you want to do. Anyway, she
an expensive career as an invalid that
forbids anything SO heartless as the
mere suggestion of going to work and
doing something useful.
Now" concluded the doctor, snap
ping together his prescription blanks.
laziness against the whole sex I
know plenty of women who could give
points to the little busy bee about i'm
proving each shining hour, but I do
say that large part OF the sickness
among women and much OF the ugli-
every woman would make her own beds
and sweep her own floors every morn
ing there would be little need for
and physical culture classes,
and lot of US doctors would have TO
take In our signs and hunt for other 90