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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
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Florence Hartley
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"Supposing
that
the
seeds
of
disease
have
not
been
laid
in
childhood,
and
that
there
is
no
particular
predisposition
to
any
malady
in
the
constitution,
a
young
woman
enters
life
with
every
fair
prospect
of
enjoying
tolerable
health;--yet,
how
variable,
and
delicate,
and
complaining,
do
the
majority
of
women
become!
What
a
vast
expense
is
incurred,
during
the
course
of
their
lives,
in
physicians,
medicine,
change
of
air,
baths
abroad
and
at
home,
and
journeys!
How
few
women
can
walk,--or
can
suppress
nervous
feelings,--or
can
eat
like
reasonable
beings:
how
many
suffer,
or
say
they
suffer
from
debility,
headaches,
dyspepsia,
a
tendency
to
colds,
eternal
sore
throats,
rheumatic
attacks,
and
the
whole
list
of
polite
complaints!
With
all
our
modern
wisdom,
with
all
our
books
on
health,
our
smatterings
of
physiological
science,
our
open
carriages,
sponging
baths,
and
attention
to
diet,
women
now
are
a
far
more
feeble
race
than
our
grandmothers,
or
even
our
mothers,
were.
What
daughter
can
walk
half
as
far
as
her
mother
can?
What
young
woman
can
take
the
active
part
that
her
mother
did?
In
most
families,
the
order
of
things
is
reversed.
It
is
not
a
child
trembling
for
her
mother's
health,
and
fearing,
lest
her
parent,
no
longer
young,
should
be
fatigued;
but
it
is
the
mother
who
is
always
striving
to
spare
her
child
exertions
which
she
can
herself
perfectly
well
undergo,
but
which
the
enfeebled
child
of
modern
self-indulgence
dare
not
encounter.
"Yes!
we
are
a
self-indulgent
race,
this
present
generation.
Witness
our
easily
excited
feelings;
witness
our
late
hours
of
rising,
our
sofas
and
easy
chairs,
our
useless
days
and
dissipated
nights!
Witness
our
pallid
faces,
our
forms,
sometimes
attenuated
and
repulsive
while
yet
in
early
life,
age
marching,
not
creeping,
on
before
his
time;
or
witness
our
over-fed
and
over-expanded
forms,
enfeebled
by
indolence,
and
suffering
the
worst
species
of
debility--the
debility
of
fat.
Witness
our
doing
those
things
by
deputy
which
our
grandmothers
did
themselves;
witness
our
host
of
scents
and
perfumed
waters
on
our
dressing-tables;
our
over-refinement,
which
amounts
to
an
enervating
puerility,
and
our
incapacity
of
parting
with
one
accustomed
indulgence,
even
at
the
bidding
of
the
learned
and
disinterested
adviser?
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