Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — Laziness and Health. [ARTICLE]

Laziness and Health.

Our experience is that a large number of girls’ ailments are due to idleness, and the consequent ennui, and that the nerve-forces are as self-destructive as an unrestrained locomotive engine would be; which, if not properly directed, would injure everything with which it came in contact, or soon cripple itself. We have seen lamentable instances of girls among the middle classes whose bodily and moral health had been ruined by ignorant parents. The strong, rightminded girls are those who have been well educated at school or college, and who are constantly engaged in work for themselves or others, who are employed at drawing, sculpture, languages, or even science; whilst the sickly, complaining creatures, who are ever on the doctor’s hands, are those who are doing nothing One of the worst chronic cases of hysteria we have ever known was cured immediately upon the young lady being required to take charge of her father’s house.— Herald of Health.