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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
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"'In
the
education
of
women,'
writes
a
modern
physician,
'too
little
attention
is
given
to
subdue
the
imaginative
faculty,
and
to
moderate
sensibility;
on
the
contrary,
they
are
generally
fostered;
and,
instead
of
a
vigorous
intellect
and
healthy
condition
of
mind,
we
find
imagination
and
sentiment
predominant
over
the
reasoning
faculties,
and
laying
the
foundation
of
hysterical,
hypochondriacal,
and
even
maniacal
diseases.'[B]
It
is,
in
fact,
this
want
of
judgment
in
the
management
of
early
life
that
produces
so
much
misery
when
women
are
called
upon
to
perform
an
important
part
in
society,
and
when
all
that
exertion
can
do
is
required
at
their
hands.
[B]
"The
Sick-Room,"
by
Dr.
A.
T.
Thomson.
"The
duration
of
sleep
should
not,
in
the
adult,
exceed
six
or
eight
hours;
women
injure
their
health
greatly
by
excess
in
this
respect.
On
rising,
all
women
should
use
some
mode
of
cold
or
tepid
bath;
and,
indeed,
in
this
respect
the
practice
of
the
present
day
is
admirable;
there
is
every
facility
for
the
bath.
To
some,
the
use
of
the
shower-bath
is
deleterious,
and
to
all
inconvenient,
and
not
likely
to
be
resorted
to
except
when
positively
ordered.
Dr.
Combe
recommends
for
general
use
the
tepid
or
warm
bath,
as
being
much
more
suitable
than
the
cold
bath,
'especially
in
the
winter
for
those
who
are
not
robust,
and
full
of
animal
heat.'
When
the
constitution
is
not
sufficiently
vigorous
to
ensure
reaction
after
the
cold
bath,
by
producing
a
warm
glow
over
the
surface,
'its
use,'
observes
the
same
admirable
writer,
'inevitably
does
harm.'
But
he
enforces,
that
'in
order
to
promote
a
due
exhalation
from
the
skin,
the
warm,
the
tepid,
or
the
shower-bath,
as
a
means
of
preserving
health,
ought
to
be
in
as
common
use
as
a
change
of
apparel,
for
it
is
equally
a
measure
of
necessary
cleanliness.'
He
inclines
to
the
use
of
the
tepid
bath,
as
likely
to
be
the
most
generally
efficacious.
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