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The Physical Side of Education.

cessories become so elaborate and costly, and beset with so many formalities that physical recreation is not expected from it. The game merely answers as a scheme to bring people together who are hankering for some opportunity to be near each other and exchange the sentimental platitudes of unsatisfied and instinctive social emotions. If Gustave and

Regina, at fifteen years of age, are to be improved by scurrying about in the manner and time of the modern waltz, then 'twere well that the latter were dressed so as to give her freedom of limb and lungs, and the recreation given in the afternoon, so that regular sleep at proper time may allow that recuperation of energy and nourishment of wasted tissue consequent upon exertion: The dance would then become a means of physical training and not altogether an opportunity to test or break the physical resistance needed to bear up under the fatigue, excitement and exposure of late evening parties. If dancing is supposed to minister to any other demands of human nature than the demand for pleasure and innocent exercise in agreeable company, then of course this view of the matter is wrong, and the writer is unable to explain why the recreation is in place or is to be tolerated by polite or moral society. As Wesley remarked in apology for the liveliness of Methodist singing: "It is not right for the Devil to have all the best tunes," so it may be said of dancing that "Recreative means should not be mon'opolized by the social usages and occasions where circumstances exclude the greatest benefit from the exercise, and sometimes induce positively injurious consequences."

These suggestions and remarks may be summarized. We need conversion from an exclusively intellectual ideal in the means and occupations by which we strive to educate the young.

We must accept and obey the law of limitation in mental growth and development, and, while allowing time for "unconscious cerebration," as physiologists call it, we must nurture the thinking organ by physical culture.

The Physical Side of Education.

The dominant activity of youth is physical and sensual, and repressions of the impulses to bodily activity are factitious and unnatural.

Gymnastic training is important to muscular culture and development of tissue and general health.

The tendency of youth to active play requiring active exercise of the senses should not be ignored, and this common disposition may be turned to good account in a true scheme for harmonious culture.

Ideal Sanitation.

IDEAL SANITATION.

BY B. O. REYNOLDS, M. D., Lake Geneva.

"Man can invent nothing in science or religion but falsehood; and all the truths which he discovers are but facts or laws which have emanated from the Creator." (Types of mankind.)

True science, then, is the discovery and elucidation of eternal truths which are self existent and coeval with God himself. The law of gravitation was not the invention of Newton, and the circulating blood-currents coursed through the arteries and veins of Adam, and his posterity, thousands of years before a Harvey was born.

We live in an age where many important truths in science are being discovered, utilized, and made subservient to the comfort and happiness of man, not the least of which are those that relate to sanitation and the preservation of health—a science yet in its infancy in this country, but which has become an eminently practical science, whose beneficial effects are felt in every department of life-a science whose sole object and aim is to secure the health, happiness and longevity of the human race. Hitherto its efforts have been mainly directed to the prevention of contagious, infectious and epidemic diseases, but the time is near when its boundaries will be greatly extended, and very many diseases not now regarded as preventable, will be brought within its benign influence. Doubtless many of the truths of this humane science yet remain undiscovered, but facts and reason constrain us to believe that ere long a great majority of the diseases that now afflict mankind will be wholly prevented, or shorn of their terror and danger when they chance to occur.

Ideal Sanitation.

Health is by far the greatest earthly blessing vouchsafed to man; without it no others can be fully enjoyed; yet he will trifle with and abuse this inestimable boon until it is impaired or lost, before he duly appreciates its value. Every chronic invalid will agree, that it is better to be born healthy than rich; that a hearty beggar, is happier than an invalid king; that the stalwart tramp, enjoys more solid comfort, than the sickly millionaire; and that there is in all the earth, nothing that will compensate for the loss, or permanent impairment of health.

While the support of the medical profession depends on the cure, and not on the prevention of disease, and every step in successful sanitation lessens its legitimate income; yet, paradoxical as it may seem, it is as much the duty of the true physician to prevent disease and suffering,. as to alleviate and cure it when it does occur; and to his credit be it said, the claims of humanity have ever been held paramount to pecuniary considerations by him, and his profession has always been found in the foremost rank of sanitary reform, laboring zealously for the establishment of all measures calculated to prevent and diminish the ills that afflict the human race.

Sanitarians claim that a vast majority of all the ills that afflict us could be avoided by proper knowledge and due observance of the laws of health. But will the people ever duly observe these laws? It would seem that they already know enough of them and of the dire effects of their nonobservance, to avoid Delirium Tremens, Venereal Disease, etc., etc., with their long trains of health and life-destroying evils; they are voluntarily induced, and it is innate viciousness rather than ignorance, that maintains the prevalence of these disgusting diseases among us. We knowingly violate the laws of our being and for this sanitary science has no remedy. Dyspepsia, Constipation, Diarrhoea, Hemorrhoids, Gout, Bunions, Corns, Baldness and a multitude of

Ideal Sanitation.

functional diseases are avoidable and might be prevented by a proper observance of the laws of health.

CRIMINAL ABORTION.

The unnatural crime for which our country is becoming noted, is making such fearful inroads upon the lives and health of the people, that we are constrained to raise aloft a danger signal to warn against this great and growing evil

a crime that often results in the murder of two human beings at the same time, and, as a rule, entails a long list of incurable diseases upon its deluded victims, and consigns annually many thousands of the fair and lovely of the race to premature graves.

The testimony of all medical writers upon this subject is to the effect, that it saps and undermines the constitution of those that survive its immediate effects, and entails many painful and irreparrable diseases upon its victims. We may point in vain to the insidious effects of fashion in dress, social customs, sentimental and sensational novel reading; to charlatan advertisements which promise immunity for the violations of God's eternal laws; to ignorance of the physiological laws of life and health, to sedentary and irregular habits and vicious practices; to the precociousness that modern society demands of the youth of both sexes, that keep their minds and passions stimulated and wrought to their highest tension, as some of the causes that lead to this crime.

NOSTRUM VENDING

is a prolific cause of disease, suffering and death; the promise of a sure and speedy cure for nearly all the ills that afflict mankind, offered by means of brazen advertisements, flaming handbills and free medical almanacs, filled with lying affidavits of miraculous cures, tempts the unwary invalid to give the trash a trial; in many cases direct harm is done, and in nearly all acute diseases valuable time is

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