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150 INS ANITT ¦ AMONG WOMEN.
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In Directing His Attention To The Import...
extent all who of are insanity anxious . In to what adopt condition prophylactic of niind measures does the to young lessen " lad the y
well of the as present crammed age with leave words school ? ? "Words Is the alon mind eas strengthened a great writer , as
tells us , are apt to become the tyrants of thoug , 'ht , and thought , under such circumstancesthe slave of some conceited dogma . Has
a control health developed y direction ? been Is she g , iven the to better thought prepared ? Is the for power those of useful
selfwalks of life for which woman is so admirably adapted ? It is to regard Too be fe often ared to that a they considerable these leave questions the schoolroom portion must of be with the answered young a superficial - ladie in the s knowle of negative Eng dge land , in of .
no every t been subj real ect l except trained that the of facult music . of The attention powers has of not the mind been exer have - y
cised ; the mental y functi ; ons which are concerned in discriminating , tion analyzing and some , comparing of the , perceptive have scarce faculties ly been em have ployed been ; calle the d imag forth ina to
the the statement neglect of of the a female higher writer and sterner —and qualities as such I of cite the it , in mind preference . It is
to any other—that , _" Wlieawe meet in society witli that speechless , inanimate conie from , ig school norant ' , it and is useless thought being a sufficient called apology e a young for lad all y just her
social Thus deficiencies imp intercourse ly , ing that that she , has ada nothing , poor tation in thing to the circumstances *! way but j of ust domestic come can from be usefulness expected school . ,
frora her until she , has had p time to learn it . . . , . The case is too p remark itiful to , ' justif Poor y thing any further ! she has descri just ption come . home The popular offer from , scho and ol familiar ; what
can you expect ? ' is the best commentary I can . " * there were If the accomp would neg be anied lect less now by cause a comp proportionate for laine regret d of but in development the unfortunatel education of the y of the ph women bodil ysique y
the powers chest are , is but not too allowed frequentl to y , develop neglected , itself also . in When _jDroportion this happens to the , instances
demands of the respiratory system ; the spine is in many insanity tion weakened exist it , s or elf these distorted may diseases be , ; and where are no developed a doubt tendency often ; and to are scrofula , lastl sown y , , the or thoug -consump seeds lect h the of of
p bitter hysical fruit health may is not not be onl tasted y injurious until after in its twent direct y . effects The neg _iij ) on the to system the , laws but is closel which y associated depend the with possession the absence of of a sound instruction mind as in
a sound body upon . On this subject the young lady often leaves school profoundlignorantShe continues to infringe these laws as she
advances y to womanhood . and thenshould it fall to her lot to bring , ,
in rowed . * " marg The from Women a , public " These of library bi Eng peds , land has aboun . " the d By everywhere above Mrs passage . Ellis !" . scored The writer , with ' s copy addition , bor-
150 Ins Anitt ¦ Among Women.
150 INS _ANITT ¦ AMONG _WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1861, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051861/page/6/
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