How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are^ if possible, even more injurious than on men. Being in a great measure debarred from those vigorous and enjoyable exercises of body by which boys mitigate the evils of excessive study, girls feel these evils in their full intensity. Hence the much smaller proportion of them who grow up well-made and healthy. In the pale, angular, flat- chested young ladies, so abundant in London draw- ing-rooms, we see the effect of merciless appli- cation unrelieved by youthful sports; and this physical degeneracy exhibited by them hinders their welfare far more than their many accomplish- ments aid it. Mammas anxious to make their daughters attractive could scarcely choose a course more fatal than this which sacrifices the body to the mind. Either they disregard the tastes of the opposite sex, or else their conception of those tastes is erroneous. Men care comparatively little for erudition in women, but very much for physical beauty and good nature and sound sense. How many conquests does the blue-stocking make through her extensive knowledge of history ? ’’ This is a question quite worthy of the considera- tion of every teacher of girls in our land, and a paragraph full of suggestion, not only to every parent having a child’s interests in his or her keep- ing, but to every spirited girl herself as well. Every school-girl in America could be daily
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