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Identifier: womaningirlhoodw00soli (find matches)
Title: ... Woman in girlhood, wifehood, motherhood; her responsibilities and her duties at all periods of life; a guide in the maintenance of her health and that of her children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Solis-Cohen, Myer
Subjects: Women Child care
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J.C. Winston co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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instance, instead of being stout and of good color, is oftenpale and thin. This is in part due to the too frequent use of thefrying pan, to the eating of salt fish and meats instead of freshfoods, to the drinking of coffee and tea instead of milk andcocoa, and above all to the constant use of pies and hot bread.In the large cities, on the other hand, women eat too much, andin consequence develop dyspepsia, constipation, and allied dis-orders. It is here that the late eating and drinking among thefashionable people is productive of so much chronic trouble. Want of Sufficient Rest.—Many nervous disorders occurfrom women not taking sufficient rest. Many young girls goout night after night during a whole winters gay season, com-ing home from a dance often at four or five oclock in themorning. With the using up of the nervous energy which sheneeds for resisting disease, a society woman frequently becomesthe prey of various disorders. Nor is the society woman the only offender. Many work-
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A FAMOUS BEAUTY BY A FAMOUS PAINTER. It is the duty of woman to add to beauty, given by nature, theexpression and sweetness which comes by cultivation. THE CAUSES OF DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN 381 ing girls, after standing before a loom or behind a counterfrom early morning till sundown, will go out again after supperand will not return until late at night. The mother of a largefamily after a hard days work will often sit up until midnight,sewing. It is no wonder, therefore, that with this waste ofher vital force, a woman loses her inborn ability to combat dis-ease and soon succumbs to one of the many diseases peculiar toher sex. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIND AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BODY. Every physician sees the injurious effect upon the girlshealth of the modern system of education. Mothers whose eyesare open should also see it; yet the melancholy fact remains thatfew do. Even female school teachers seldom recognize oradmit that such a state of affairs exists. The difficulty seemsto the

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