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152 PHYSICAL TKAINING.
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of death . We also read in the same chapter a description of an establishment at Marseilles , where ,
" h in thisis a . climate This malad which y , de recalls velops that itself in It the aly educational , are found establishments numerous case where s of
p young h seden umanity t girl life s from are within broug tuberculous ht doors up ; produces affec the t ions t everywhere , and sou it thern would the clima be sam t easy e effect does to . show not One preserve tha of t the ary
most eminent schools is devoted to the training of orphans ; it is in a high of situa the tion young , the air girls is are as pure large as , well in the ligh country ted , and , the fulfil dormi to every t documents ories desirable and workrooms communi sanitary
cated condition to me . by Yet M , notwi . Girard ths , t p anding hysician this to , and this according establishment , pulmonary phthisis - has carried off in twenty-one years forty ei -five ht orphans , out of the total
number of deathswhich amounts to sixty-g . " , The boys' penitentiary in the same town is scourged by scrofula
port and consumption of Marseilles , while are free the sailors from these , fishermen ailments , and . workmen Thus the in unfor the
tunate little female orphans are put on the same footing in sanitary matters as the juvenile criminals ! In fact , M . Fourcault appears
to be actuated by real medical enmity against charitable asylums to for " g _poltssonner irls , and " probabl among y their thinks own they mud woul pies d . have Tie fared then tells better out us of if of left his a
custom-house officer who lost his wife by consumption ; five childrenthe boys , placed out in the world in situations be requirin strong g great men , activity the thre and e irls frequent seeming change ly in childhood of abode , grew as health up to y
as their brothers ; , were broug g ht , up at home , and all died , under the of eihteencarried off in six months of " galloping
consumption age . " A g gain , , M . le Marquis D had five daughters , all brought up about at home enjoy , ing very good piou health sly ; three ; the married two who forei remained gners , and at home travelled died
of disease , of the lungs . In another branch of the same family were two the one went across seasand lived long in America , —
the other sons;— a studious youth , unlike his , brother , dwelt at home , and died consumptive , at twenty-three .
pre but " m How understood ature m any th young , the or happy from girls the , effects " says ravages of M gymnastics . of Fourcault scrofulou , " s of would disease frequent be , if preserved tri their ps into mot from hers the
, country , and sea voyages ! " In the chapter devoted to " Temperaments , " he dwells upon the
delicacy , activity , and high gifts of the temperament denominated nervous;—but he also lays great stress on the excess of nervous
sensibility common to the inhabitants of large towns , and to women of rank who lead a sedentary lifedevoted chiefly to the arts , or to
, is pursuits the natu of ral intellectual temperament interest of a . class The of more hum refined an beings and , of impassioned either sex ,
the more imperatively do they need the counterbalance of healthy
physical activity . In fact , while he shows that every infringement
152 Physical Tkaining.
152 PHYSICAL TKAINING .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/8/
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