. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . chiefly by nerve andwill power. This expenditure of vital force is somuch withdrawn from the processes of nutritionand assimilation. It reacts on the mind as well asthe body. On the l>asis of a good physique thecoining woman will have an intellectual and moralequipment widely differing from the present sensibility will be held in equilibrium,not by the effort of the will, but by the counter-balance of a substantial physical organism. Ex-perience shows that weak, sh
. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . chiefly by nerve andwill power. This expenditure of vital force is somuch withdrawn from the processes of nutritionand assimilation. It reacts on the mind as well asthe body. On the l>asis of a good physique thecoining woman will have an intellectual and moralequipment widely differing from the present sensibility will be held in equilibrium,not by the effort of the will, but by the counter-balance of a substantial physical organism. Ex-perience shows that weak, shaky, hysterica]nerves accompany soft, flabby muscles. Whenthe higher education of women begins with thephysical,nervousness and hysteria will be despisedby them as by men, and unless it begins here thecoming generations will show still greater lack ofnerve equilibrium. A body so healthy as to beget a sweet temper ;not subject to headaches and nervous prostration ;not exhausted by slight exertion ; a nervous sys-tem not rasped by the petty frictions of every-daylife ; a physical vigor which shall bequeath to. An example of Gown which has no division between skirt and waist. NORMAL WOMAN. 23 coming generations a heritage of acquired healthand character; all these ought not to be the traitsof the exceptionally endowed woman, but the char-acteristics of every woman. The circle of femininegraces must be enlarged until it includes courage,self-reliance, self-control, truth of being, spiritualfreedom, graces which we are accustomed to con-sider as belonging to noble manhood. There is nosex in soul. The graces which dignify manhoodwill also dignify womanhood. The graces whichennoble womanhood will also ennoble manhood. Since physical weakness handicaps womansactivities, bars the way to higher education andhinders the development of many noble traits ofcharacter, it follows that an important step in theattainment of true womanhood lies in the directionof physical reformation. CHAPTEK II
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