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84 THE LADIES' SANITABY ASSOCIATION.
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want one immense centre of activity in London , Brighton , or any other villages place and ; manufacturing we want a multitude towns , little of little centres centres which in shall agricultural be
supin plied with " tracts which by the association to , be and beneficial shall be . connected Cooking schools with it mig every ht be way organised may in connection prove with it by the chief ladies in each districtand perhaps no greater benefit could be conferred on .
the health of , the working classes than that ensured in the knowled ies ge ill of cooked how to meat prepare and health ill fermented y food . Bad malt bread li and the indi dail gestible -- quory op
pressing p , of the digestion by aliments . tinfit for the nourishment , of the human body—all these causes of imperfect nutrition prepare
the "way for falling , an easy prey to the malaria of foul air or bad drainage . Upon the delicate stomachs of little children the evil
influence of unwholesome food cannot be exaggerated . Again , the dress of the lower classes in England is very far
from what it should be . _- The pernicious custom which assigns a common costume to widely different occupations , and gives to the
maid of all work and the maid of honor , garments which vary only in their price and textureis not only ugly but very unhealthy . Thin
, flimsy materials are not suitable for those who are constantly exposed to draughts from open doors and windows , and who have to
scrub the house down alike in winter as in summer . Yet no sumptuary laws can now be made to restrain the extravagance of
the rich , or the unwise imitation of the poor . Nothing but the kindlpersonal influence of woman over woman will ever-modify
the foolish y excesses or short-comings of female dress . Then as regards fresh air ; the architect may allow for windows ,
but who is to open them at proper seasons ? Or as regards medicine ; the physician may prescribe and the apothecary may send in
the dose , but who is to administer it at the stated hour and with the limitation of quantity ? It is the house-mother who must
proper do all these things , and we must teach her why and how to do them . We do not need only to persuade her to do this or that , we
need to inspire her with a living horror of ill health , and to make her see that the bodily welfare of her husband and children chiefly
depends The chief on herself value . of an association for the lishment of accompany
reform , lies far less in the particular items of practical reform it is able to accomplish in itself , than in the thorough discussion
of the idea on which it is based . Once let this idea be worked into the public mind , once let it be condensed in domestic conversation
and expanded in penny periodicals , and taught as a common-place in schools ; once let it come in as salt to the soup , and as fuel to the
fire , and the mission of an association is complete . Look at the great reliious organizations which have sown Bibles and tracts
broadcast g over the country , and how they have resulted in Sunday
classes and ragged ~ schools , in new churches , city missions , mothers ' -
84 The Ladies' Sanitaby Association.
84 THE _LADIES' _SANITABY ASSOCIATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/12/
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