Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1889 — The Health of the World. [ARTICLE]

The Health of the World.

The other day 1 took up a New York newspaper and read: “The dictates of fashion death to health and happiness. The world is cursed with sick people. It is almost impossible to find a well woman, and not a little difficult to find a perfectly well man.” and so on. It was all anent the poor, much abused corset, that hapless womt insists on wearing to the grave, let that pass. . ■' ' . •" We don’t cares button about corsets Boston, where the women go about looking like bags run through a cylin-der-press; but what I would like to remark is this: Corset, or no corset, a onsideration which ought not to af'ect the sterner sex, the world is much! tore healthier than it was 60 or a 100 ears ago. It is a deal bigger than len, and the sufferers may be in proortion, but physicians who have ■•eached the good old Egb of 70 odd affirm that the average of life is greater than in their youth. One of the most thoughtful practitioners here, a nan of learrting and wide pathological research, s ays the improvement in the American race, physically, is due to its regard to hygienic laws," better" food, less medicine, and the protect ion science has afforded against the attacks of climate. Our great-great-grandmothers killed themselves wearing low shoes in midwinter, and died of consumption because they would not cover up their necks and arms, and it was rare in those days to find a New England family that had not lost one or more members by that disease, while now their descendants have almost eradicated its seeds from their constitutions, and look the picture of health in—corsets. Well, you pay your money and so forth, but as to getting frightened by the resounding phrases of dress reform, don’t. Perhaps the dear girls, though, are not as healthy as they appear to the appreciative eve of a believer in anti-sloppiness.—Boston Herr aid.