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146 PHYSICAL TKAINING.
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blood lungs ; is havoc depositing proceeds its day fatal by burden day , till on the the wan delicate sharpened tissue features of the from the
arrest some watchful eye , and the invalid is taken away college or the office , and sent If east the , west , and south of love , —to be Torqu also backe ay , to d
the West Indies , or the Nile . strong arm b lief y all which the skill worldl which ease money can render can purchase available , , and the sufferer by schemes may be of , for rey
years comes , — suspended how soon above —how his often inevitable , let the grave hearts . of But our the readers fell , moment as they
, this recall , . peruse With page women , it is a different process . As girls they are sent
to schools young where every incitement to emulation is applied to make them work from morning till night . The hours of so-called regular learntnot
s tud but y are out in of themselves school-hours very crammed long;—and down the before lessons and are after dinner , , , , for exercise
the furtivel last y hour acquired before during going the to bed scanty . We period have allotted been told by a young , or
lady at five in a o ' fashionable clock on summer boarding mornings school , of and her burning having begun her candle to stud into y This
the an ambitious nights as g far irl , as " cramming the candle " could for an be examination coaxed to . burn . was From the boarding schoolwhere no ] bodhas looked after her
healththe young lady goes , home , where nobod y y knows anything about it , . She leads a sedentary life , sits over the fire , never goes the and
out in doubtful weatherdances till four o'clock in morning , or finall whole settles y falls better into into a ch life weak ance of health delicacy than , , her break . brother But s a the blood ; young she -vessel breathes lad , and y stands better either on air dies the in ,
a the her drawing meals at -room shorter than and he more breathes regular in intervals the counting and -h is ouse less ; exposed she has
, to weakl sitting y , ailing or standin , married g in woman damp ; clothes while . he She runs probabl a greater y becomes chance of a
death . When we turn to the young working women we see a different
health picture than . Girls other who irls have commence not had an better uphill earl strugg y influences le in a about profession their .
They become teachers g , artists , writers . They undertake some of the man's labours without even his recreations . They have no
young citement they boating thro , no w which skating into their enables , no dail cricket them y lives to ; instead cop an e intense with of such p amount hysical natural fati of nervous stimulants gue , and ex if - ,
they scorn live deli in hts towns . " Trud they ging do backwards indeed both and " forwards lead laborious in all days weathers , and g
through the interminable streets ; standing for hours in the school , sitting sure of for anxiety hours and in many the studio disadvantages , working unknown into the ni to ghts the under other pres sex - ,
which is helped by wealthy public institutions , by scholarships ,
146 Physical Tkaining.
146 _PHYSICAL _TKAINING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/2/
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