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WOMAN'S WORK IN SANITARY REFORM. 319
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( Continued From Page 227. J Those Women...
if she is thoughtful and conscientious , she devotes herself to an van unmercifu taes l " course whatever of stud she y , is under she the votes idea exercise of " improving a bore * her and ad a -
hinderance g ; and takes as -little , as she can . This state of things is a necessar rareltaug y result , ht the of value the p of lan h of ysical educa developmen tion usually t and adop strength ted ; girls ; they are
are s y timulated by prizes and p every possible inducement to cultivate the mindwhile the claims of the body are tacitly understood to be
thoroug of far hl less , y impressed importance with . But the fact let , that every the gir hi l ghes be t const perfection antly and and
ties h throug appiness let h the the of simultaneous belle which of her the nature school , harmonious know is suscep that development tible health can hei be of gh ob all tens tained her beau facul onl ty y -
let the ; ambitious , studious girl be told of the dependence of mental u deve pon lope bodil her y vi whole gor ; let being the is conscientious a duty she one owes be to convinced her Creator , that , to to
excel society in , and language to herself s , . music Let , , prizes and drawing be offered , but not also only to to those those who who most
for de grace dance li boys gh , t bes ease in prizes t , all , and and the are execu precision means offered te gymnastics of . for ph Then ysical proficiency we development and should other in various soon exercises . see In some t g ir with ls schools taking t-door
frame games . of , Thi both s p sexes lan shou is l governed d be adopt b y the th same girls g also eneral : the laws physical , both
alike require vigorous muscular exercise , both shotild alike be enthe courage furthest d to take and fence it . A the prize most for skilfull the b y ; a w prize ho thro for w the the g h irls ammer who
run the fastest , , and skip the best . The idea of any similarity in who the training havin of no the faith two in s th exe e s ermanence gives instan of t th alarm e eterna to some l dist persons inctions , p
nature , has g established , fear that if girls are allowed to develope boy their allowed -like ph . ysical to But develope , , or on other the her contrary faculties whole , being , the as full more , the y as full more boys y and , distinctl they freel will y y a marked become girl t d
will her feminine characteristics become . They are deeply rooe in stroy her ing very them nature . It ; there is most is no painful need to to cri know pple , her how for ever fear , that of de to
thousands of the inmates of our ladies' schools , vigorous out-door there exercise are is impossible hundreds throug of schools h want to of which playgrounds no e . / whatever In London for spac
out-door exercise many is attached *— ' in other words , hundreds of schools where the pupils are compelled to violate one of the primary conditions
of health . preventable of In the many pupils schools causes is much . for The g inj irls ured lad of y the - throug visitors poorer h bodil and classes y supporters inaction also , the and of health other such .
* Mr . Thomas Hopley ' s " Lecture on Bodily Exercise . " Part 2 , page 31 .
Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform. 319
WOMAN ' S WORK IN SANITARY REFORM . 319
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/31/
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