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318 woman's work in sanitary reform.
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( Continued From Page 227. J Those Women...
it would be difficult , in many cases impossible , to find a single one , whoafter having * lived under the regime only a few months , would
be pronounced , by the well practised medical man as not evidencing symptoms of functional derangement . " A whole legion of medical
writers have for many years been complaining thus ; but the evils complained of must continue till educators feel their deep
responsibility in the matter , and resolve to allow no conventional prejudices , no parental to the whims health , to prevent harmonious them ph from ysical adopting development every of means their
pup necessary ils . To secure this y , end , some more systematic and thorough method of exercise is needed than walks or dancing lessons , which ,
thoug action h some beneficial of the so muscles far as . their The influence system of extends bodily , onl training y brin distin g into
guished as Ling ' s national Gymnastics , is the most perfect of any results yet introduced in some . of These the best gymnastics conducted are practised schools in with London most , beneficial and also
very Austria generall . An y in those lanation in Sweden of the , Russia peculiar , Prussia excellencies , Saxony of , this and exp
admirable system would be misplaced in these merely suggestive its cannot pages ming claims , is especiall be another too as strong a y most mean as l it y s beneficial urged has of been self upon -preservation alread exercise the y attention , g the iven independentl importance elsewhere of every . * educator of y Swim which of its ; -
, value as a means of health and enjoyment , are sufficient to prove not that be it confined ought to , form as it now part generall of the education y is in the girls of week all ' schools . f Dancing but , to the the should for ils
mal should lessons be given once d to or dance twice as during a recreation in , the playground pup when the we encourage ather permits . In winter evenings , too , when the day ' s
work is done , a merry school-room dance—about as orderly as Mr . Fezziwi structive g ' s to - —is chilblains a very healthful and " the and blues exhilirating . " Every affair encouragement , at once
deshould also be given to the practice of those out-door and in-door games In which schools bring it the is found muscles into difficult vigorous to induce exercise the . elder ils to pup
take a school any many - interest girl attains in the to means the m very of agn p children h ificent ysical developm age If of she thirteen ent is . Usuall or fourteen y when vain
she leaves active games to " the . " a pretty , mantles girl , she , and strai crinoline ghtway turns ; if _sjie her is attention an ambitious to the , clever mysteries one , of she bonnets begins ,
" cramming " for examinations , and waxes great in crayon heads ; and S " Letter " Gymnastic on the Free Importance Exercises of Rational of Ling , " G translated ymnastics" by by Dr Dr . . Roth Roth ; .
London : Groombridge , 1854 . , ing _j * of See the " Eng Swimming lish "Woman Bath ' s for Journal Ladies " for ; " an August d " "Wh , 1858 y do , article not Women on the Swim " Open ?" - LadiesNational Association for the Diffusion of
Sanitary a tract issued Knowledge by the . " " London ' : Groombridge ' , 1858 .
318 Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform.
318 woman ' s work in sanitary reform .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/30/
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