Show causes auses luses anses of decay de cay oay of the national health 1 I 1 two things are generally conceded viz that the american women ure are not as healthy HB us the european eu and hat that the present eem gem ab iiii n especially recia lecia ally aily lly ily tile tiie worm women are not us healt ly and aud vigrous rous as the former one wha wh t are the causes not nut conr clin climac cli lupe muc for that hat is the same as it was WB m aheu hen heu the women of this his country were as healthy its s the tile english Ei Er glish scotch and arid if lull ish and when both lexes sexes were as I 1 j vigo vigorous rohs rons is s their autti urs rs nr r aliv othor people trie trio chang chaug then niu fiut l be fiig to if our do dorne itic aud and diodes of education i some of these w li now tion be indicated nothing so certainly deteriorates and tinder j mines the tiie body as us habitually breathing g impure i air Thelo pant pent fireplaces fire places in kitchens parlors I 1 beJo beto amb ams and und N ork hops to our oar arces aicer j tois lots pure alid and cul cl ar nir but at the pr sent day celoso stoves and close g with mill no proper ventilation venti lenti lalion are perhaps dinue of the people while chidden ch cli idren are crowded into schoolrooms school rooms heated with stoves stores and almerit I 1 never properly ventilated four fifths of UJ tj tle ilc e food al ard drink ink taken arc aro ar i thrown oft off t in url uyi the lungs and blin hlin every i pair of luu luv v totes oue one pint of air at ever ex el exi eti 1 pira piru tiou that 1 hat is equal to one hogshead of air I 1 each hour for every pair of in lungs figs no room thui thel can be properly ventilated that does not receive from without ata at least one hogshead cf of air each hour for every pair of lungs this is always secured by open fire places but by a stove sture almost never thua thur it Is that the greater part of this generation have bad fled every tissue nourished by lna fra perfected blood thus indu inducing chig clig a delicate and feeble constitution A second cause of debility is the ilia vigorous exercise especially especial lk to the arms armb and trunk in former da das 9 the children worked witti wild their in pure pire and cool air for everal veral hours bours a day and thus exercised the muscles most important to health especially to female beaith health but in these days da s school children especially especial ly the yo youn gMt girls have hate little vigorous exercise aud and where exercise exorcise la Is demanded a walk of a I 1 mile or two is 13 deemed sufficient while whua the exercise of the muscles most important to health is entirely neglected thus thur both sexes but bat espell atly ally that upon whom depends the ilia constitution of the childr children qu are every year becoming moro mors delicate and sickly bickly bicky the thiro baure caure of national debility ts Is a chal chai chaug chang lige tige from a simple to a 0 stimulating and luxurious gut vt stimulating food provokes an arrum natural appetite A great variety tem ten tempts pta to excess both combine to overload ha the organs of 01 autri nutrition ta aud and the whole organization is strained and overworked to throw off the tho excess the more mora food we eat and the richer it is the more exercise is needed but bat instead of this the leople people constantly are re eating waro moro and exer exor claing less loss ess meat bleat la fa the most stimulating food there is and there here Is no other nation oa cm earth where all classes devour such euch quantities of meat ment fat butter sugar molasses not hot cakes eakes aud and hot bet tea add nod and no nation on earth have such bad teed and every other indication of a constitution A fourth cause of national debility is excle 18 in tife life th e brain unbalanced by exercise and recreation fifty years since bince to read write and cypher were all that was expected out of a college cour course no daily drilling ili in hot holi school roams in all manner of sciences selan selen cw wm with even evening brg big less lees at home no bunday sunday less lee oas no boota books fo for r children at every turn both sundays aud week days there is fifty times as much in intellectual stimulus of the brain in childhood as ai wu was ever known in former borther generations tuen taen the carea caree bu business sins bins and excitement of all kinds for both men and women romen have increased at an equal ratio everything is going on oil at high steam pressure now i the more the brain 14 is thus stimulated tha the greater the need for pure air exercise exer dise and seasons of relaxation but contrary to thi thle the more the ibe brains of children and adults are stimulated atin stin the lees lesa relieved te Is use usa the words of a medical writer the he cong coni constant tant ex ercie of the brath takes up the chief strength of the system and con cou names tames it ia in feeling and thinking j another cause of or general argeneral debility is the fashions fashio nr of iho tho female dress the stays of our ancestors were trifles compared with tile tiie accumulated en ell that have been practiced frad prid iced oh on the female form during daring the last twenty years the thin covering for the upper portion of the spine and tha the vital or corgins p as in cold weather the accumulation of clothing oil oa the lower portion uhe the pressure of tight light dresses around the waist the preb pree pressure sure of whalebone ia in pointed baws and the weight as well BS as the life heat of the tile enormous mass of clothing resting on the hips all these thee combining with delicate constitutions have produced and are increasingly crea singly producing terrific results that thai are but little known or understood LElec electric medical journal |