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Show INVALIDED BY FASHION. .Society Girls Overworked Trying to Become Be-come Accomplished. To learn as many of the fashionable accomplishments as possible appearlc to be the ambition of the girl of the period and her mamma. It is too often the case that considerations of physical physi-cal health are entirely overlooked and that the fashionable girl finds herself worn out and old in appearance and disposition before she has reached the age of 23. The Ladies' Home Journal characterizes this folly properly when it says: "There are parents who, not content with the studies which their daughters have to grappie wun ai school, load them dowp with a few special studies in the finer arts. I have in mind now several young girls between the precarious ages of 12 and 17, who, after they return from school, have an extra dose of painting, music or languages. 'But my daughter must know something of these things,' is tha protest of the fond mother. 'She must be able to hold her own with other girls of her set.' Of course, the girl at this tender age, with such a mental load, soon goes to pieces. She becomes be-comes anaemic, listless and nervous, and then the mother wonders why! To tuild her up everything under the sun is tried except a lessening of mental work and the unnatural strain upon tne nervous system. The girl develops into what? A bundle of nerves incased in the most fragile frame, her physical vitality sapped almost to the last dreg. And in this condition she enters the marriage state! And yet we wonder why there are so few women absolutely absolute-ly free from organic troubles. Is it so inexplicable?" |