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Show I i Women Have More Endurance Than Men and Should Make Good Soldiers By DR. ELIZA, M. MOSHER, Formally Dwa ol Wonra at ll Uunrnty of Michigia I agree with Dr. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard university that women are biologically more ravage 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 he 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. And what is true of the college woman has always been true of all other women. Women taking care of large families Mashing, cooking, sewing and toiling continuously have gained in endifranee. The women w!k; have had to go out into business, as stenographers and office girls, have not weakened in stulTy offis. I'y an actual investigation I found j 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 juah, have carried men, driven autos, a-i'l 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 voiin-' women are not ttronif it is because they have a physical iMVi t, or have i,..t had propr training. And yet, in spite of that lack f tnvnii'g, tlfv inn undergo pain, hardship and the most exhausting ?,tbor. It is the l.iy w..'r.att who i not strong, (live her work, nnd plenty of it, a: i ! wuMi !x-r improve, as Doctor Sargent bus aU-h--d ber. .She iu ou r a m,m e.cry time. |
