BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



Dame Fashion 

 and Hygiene. 



Society's 

 Restrictions. 



Outdoor 

 Games No 

 Longer 

 Tabooed. 



gone years, so-called civilization and the ac- 

 companying customs of the day laid so many 

 restrictions upon women that it was impossible 

 to follow fashion's dictates and be healthy at 

 one and the same time. Young girls were put 

 into tight corsets, French-heeled shoes, etc., 

 when scarcely beyond babyhood; at any rate, 

 before they were fairly in their teens and while 

 they should still have been at play, a thing quite 

 out of the question for the poor little martyrs 

 arrayed in such outlandish costumes. In fact, 

 at the time when foolish mothers allowed them- 

 selves to follow fashion's whims and so torture 

 their young daughters, for half -grown girls to 

 romp and play games was considered a social 

 outrage and if young women were to attempt 

 to join in outdoor sports the ofifense was rated 

 as about next door neighbor to criminal. While 

 there may be, and probably are, many who still 

 cling to such erroneous and silly notions, the 

 day has pretty well gone by when established 

 fashions are so directly opposed to the laws of 

 health. Woman now-a-days has just as good 

 opportunities to be healthy as has her brother 

 man. In this age young girls and young women 

 may join with members of the "sterner sex" in 

 games of tennis, golf and croquet without 

 being considered "Tom boys" or unladylike. 

 They learn to swim and to row, to climb to the 

 hilltops, to ride horseback, to take calisthenic 

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