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caa be undermined,_and yet that their intellectual, moral 

 and religious health will suffer no eclipse or decay, know 

 very little of the intimate connection between body and 

 mind, whic)i the Creator has seen fit to establish. 



The men may, to a certain extent,^esist the injurious in- 

 fluences of foul air ; as their employments usually compel 

 them to live much more out of doors : but alas, alas ! for the 

 poor women ! In the very land where women are treated 

 with more universal deference and respect than in any oth- 

 er, and where they so well deserve it, there often, no pro- 

 vision is made to furnish them with that great element of 

 health, cheerfulness and beauty, heaven's pure, fresh air. 



In Southern climes, where doors and windows may be 

 safely kept open for a large part of the year, pure air is 

 cheap enough, and can be obtained without any special 

 effort : but in Northern latitudes, where heated air must be 

 used for nearly three-q^uarters of the year, the neglect of 

 ventilation is fast causing the health, and beauty of our wo- 

 men to disappear. The pallid cheek, or the hectic flush, the 

 angular form and distorted spine, the debilitated appearance 

 of a large portion of our females, which to a stranger, 

 would seem to indicate that they were just recovering from 

 a long illness, all these indications of the lamentable absence 

 of physical health, to say nothing of the anxious, care-worn 

 faces and premature wrinkles, proclaim in sorrowful voices, 

 our violation, of God's physical laws, and the dreadful 

 penalty with which He visits our transgressions. 



Our people must, and I have no doubt that eventually they 

 will be most tho.-oughly aroused- to the necessity of a vital 

 reform on this important subject. Open stoves, and cheerful 

 grates and' fire-places will again be in vogue with the mass of 

 the people, unlisss some better mode of warming shall be de- 

 vised, which, at liess expense, shall make still more ample 



