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Show Women Have More Endurance Than Men-and Men-and Should Make Good Soldiers r. : , ... ! ' By DR. ELIZA M. MOSHER, Formeily Dean of Women at tbe Uniwnty of Michigan ' ' ' " r--"7 I agree with Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard university that women are biologically more savage than men and have more endurance and should make as good soldiers as armed men. What Doctor Sargent says is perfectly true, and no one else in the country is more fit than ha to pass on the question of woman's physical fitness. : For 35 years he has watched them go through strenuous exercises in the college gymnasia, gym-nasia, and has noted their growth. I And what is true of the college woman has always been true of all other women." Women taking care of large families washing, cooking, sewing and toiling continuously have gained in endurance. The women who have had to go out into business, as stenographers and office girls, have not weakened in stuffy offices. By an actual investigation I found they had reached a remarkable degree of endurance. They have acquired physical efficiency. , . It is not yet known how the women of the Scottish women s hospitals, hospi-tals, without the help of a single man, have carried men, driven autos, and performed every duty connected with a field hospital, thus proving to the world their ability to do anything man can do. And they have done it for two years. , . When young women are not strong it is because they have a physical defect, or have not bad proper training. ' And yet, in spite of that lack of training, they' can undergo pain, hardship and the most exhausting Jubor. , It is the lazy woman who is not strong. Give her work, and plenty of it, and watch her improve, as Doctor Sargent has watched her. She ill outwear a man every time. I ' '' . : '. |
