In The Morning I Saw A Third Sister Of The Same
Florid Bloom And Healthful Proportions.
They were none of those slight,
frail figures, copies of the monthly plates of fashion, with waists of
artificial
Slenderness, which almost force you to wonder how the different
parts of the body are kept together - no pallid faces, nor narrow chests,
nor lean hands, but forms which might have satisfied an ancient statuary,
with a well-formed bust, faces glowing with health, rounded arms, and
plump fingers. They are such women, in short, as our mothers, fifty years
ago, might have been. I had not observed any particular appearance of
health in the females of the country through which I had passed; on the
contrary, I had been disappointed in their general pallidness and look of
debility. I inquired of my host if there was any cause to which this
difference could be traced.
"I have no doubt of the cause," replied he. "These girls are healthy,
because I have avoided three great errors. They have neither been brought
up on unwholesome diet, nor subjected to unwholesome modes of dress, nor
kept from daily exercise in the open air. They have never drunk tea or
coffee, nor lived upon any other than plain and simple food. Their
dress - you know that even the pressure of the easiest costume impedes the
play of the lungs somewhat - their dress has never been so tight as to
hinder free respiration and the proper expansion of the chest.
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