Year: 1873




Mr.. EUIroR Seeing in your last is.
sue an article entitled. The beginning of
evil, and which has about the right tone
in its assault upon corsets, it occurred to
me to contribute my mite TO your paper
upon the great subject ofphysical reform /;
perhaps | shall not agree with Maud
that physical disob"dience is 1.-The great
est of all wrongs" yet it certainly is the
most common sin in civilized society and
mainly from one cause, ignorance. [ will
say amen to her ascertain that health re-
form is the basis Of all reform. Without
health life is of small value; If we 90
through life, sickly and feeble, out OF
harmony with the laws of our being We
surely sin against the laws and will Of
God for he never designed that man
should be diseased being. But we no.
tice that women are much more sckly
and nervous than men this too is need
less and sinful. 1t is not natural for
women 10 suffer with disease more than
men what then is the trouble 4? "Maud"
has shown to you the result oftight iacing
which are true as truth and say amen
heartily to her article; for upon women
We must depend for the existence Of the
race and if women is pale and sckly and
nervous with delormed waists, al. our
men and women to which she gives birth
will partake of her infrmities. Now |
assert there is another abuse as injurious,
and as destructive TO the health and life Of
woman as tight lacing; and from which
nearly every woman IN Christen1on is sut-
fering | refer to impure air. Most SEN
sibe people know that air which has
been once breaihed is deprived of oxygen
aud unfit to breathe, yet they can not be
made to realize that they breathe foul
air from morning to night and from night
to morning. They make their houses as
tight as lumber and plaster can make
them and their wives and girls remain IN
them nearly all their lives with scarcely
a charge OF air aud wonder why they
have so many headaches and heart aches
and why liie looks gloomy so ytu see; a
great contrast IN the health OF men and
women There is no mystery abeut it,
while men are most Of the time in the
open air using the free health OF. heaven
without money and without price. Throw
open your windows, friends aud depend
upon it your headaches will Danish with
the foul air; Don't be afraid of that bug
bear "taking cold you are taking just
the right course to take cold at present.
All wi notice that those IN doors take
cold very easily when they get into the
free air I; and they will also notice those
who are in the open air and sunlight TAX
ing the weather AS il comes rarely take
cold and enjoy the best health other things
being equal. Woman of fLanoille County.
and men too. appear 10 you url'e MS
curse of foul air from your homes, pure
air is free, no patent upon it, kind faith
er has made it the most bounteous of all
his gifts. It will take more wood in cold
and cool weather to keep warm to be sure,
yet wood is che ,per than doctors bills and
coffins which are getting very common.
There is no excuse or need for all this
disease of woman. Disease does not come
by chance but it comes like any effect, SO
learn the cause and avoid the eff
feet. But enough and now | hope that
MAUD" will farther give US her views
upon this grant reform and that all will
make it duty to take care oftheir health.


By ONE WHO HAS SUFFERED AND KNOWS.