. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . tion the fol-lies and vices of large cities sink the weaker sex.—Where men offend with impunity, women suffer insilence. The idleness and drunkenness of the hus-band leave the wife without bread for her little ones—and often when the culprit is consigned from thebar to the penitentiary, his sentence, is in fact, thedoom of an unhappy wife. In such a city as Lon-don, the extent of suffering and debasement is al-most incredible. There are not less than 90,000 wo-men in London, dependent upon crime for their sub-sistence. Crime cannot exist withou
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . tion the fol-lies and vices of large cities sink the weaker sex.—Where men offend with impunity, women suffer insilence. The idleness and drunkenness of the hus-band leave the wife without bread for her little ones—and often when the culprit is consigned from thebar to the penitentiary, his sentence, is in fact, thedoom of an unhappy wife. In such a city as Lon-don, the extent of suffering and debasement is al-most incredible. There are not less than 90,000 wo-men in London, dependent upon crime for their sub-sistence. Crime cannot exist without suffering; andhow incalculable the amount of anguish induced byso fearful a mass of crime! In the same city, thereare not less than 15,000 orphan girls, or girls with-out support from their parents, who wander aboutthe streets without home or shelter, and sustainingthemselves by a recourse to every species of pettydepredation on society.—[Ledger. He who respects himself will also respect others No. xi.] AND LADYS COMPANION. 169 THE AIUAL. Purgatives shouKI not be used in any case whatever. Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beseen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of which we of-ten hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Agents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are much more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, APRIL 15, 1840. PROGRESS OF THOMSONISM. How cheering to the friends of the system whichbears the name of Samuel Thomson, must be aretrospective view of the rise and progress of thatsystem. And what an inducement to its friendsto use their greatest efforts in extending a stillwider spread of this invaluable discovery, does thepresent favorable light in which it is viewed, holdout, when co
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