Year: 1867

idly increasing, both by actual lHnhgralion
and by the greater number of births whlch
take place, in consequence of the better health
of the women. SO that the question naturaiiy
arises: Unless the health of American women
improves, and the practice of abortion ceases
what will be the effect upon the country III
the course of fifty or hundred years Dr'
Allen then went on to examine into the causes
of the diminished health of American girls
and the reasons for the increase OF abortion
Our readers will find even the brief abstract
we are enabled to give of this portion
of his remarks intensely interesting. lie
ascribes the growing bad health of our
girls to their modes of life, to the
follies of fashion, the improper character oil
their food, the want of sufficient exercise anu
to the too great cultivation of the BRAN. lie
asserted that all these causes combined hao
injured the health Of our women, and that the
worst sign of this want of health was the loss
in women of the sexual instinct, which mean
while remains in full force in man, ana the
diving out of the love Of children and the de-
sire to have them. And even when they are
produced the Doctor declared that the mother
had no breasts to nurse them at, ana WIN d
grim satire said that the false breasts when
are so much worn can but i'll supply the want
of the natural fountains OF infant n0urlshmeht.


As our readers probably know, this is not
the first time that Dr. Allen has presented
these views to the public, nor is he alone in
maintaining them Dr. StOrer OF Boston mas
shown an equal zeal in putting these facts be-
fore the American people, aud he pe2rS u;
strong witness as DR.. Allen to this fearIui
state of decentralization on the subject in our
American society. The remedy lies with the
women themselves, or rather with the parents.
1t is useless to talk of putting down the prac-
tice by the strong hand of the law: nothing
but education will do any good. Mrs. Caroline
Dall-the one woman who seems to hold II
her duty to attend these meetings, and TO
take part in their discussions, which she
does with such modesty, and yet with
such ellect-declared her conviction that
the true efficient remedy for this evil lay in
the right education of women, neither making
her a drudge to household duties, on the one
hand, nor refining her into pedant, on the
other. "Woman's brain should be educated
:" as much as possible. The great trouble is
that woman's muscle is not educated equally
with her brain. There is in the higher caste
/ Il ulStdSle IOI UOuScHOlu IdOolot anu AVA ""J
"knd of work This must be corrected before
" anything can be accomplished for the real
&" help of woman. Neither the middle nor the
lower classes will love labor 50 long as the
higher classes despise it,"


For cOm,went on Dr. Edward Jaryis's (oi
Dorchester) somewhat dry, but still interesting
paper on the Comparative Value of Life III
City and Country, we have no room to-day,
but our readers will find it well represented in
our report. 1t was every way worthy Of the


intelligent though small audience to whom 1t
was read. The Society will hold its next
yearly meeting in this city, probably in the
Cooper Institute, and we trust that by that
time its purposes will be so well understood
and so truly appreciated that the intelligent
part of our community will hold itself bound
not only to attend the meeting but to aid
with their best means the extension OF the
Associations influence