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Title: Feminology; a guide for womankind, giving in detail instructions as to motherhood, maidenhood, and the nursery
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dressler, Florence
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Publisher: Chicago, C. L. Dressler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ity is weakening to the moral fiber.Work is necessary for one to bear her true relation tosociety, and it is only necessary to respect ones self in thedoing. The dignity is in the worker, not the work. George Herbert, centuries ago, said,— Who sweeps a room as for Thy lawsMakes that and the action fine. The girl with a trade or profession in which she isskilled, has a better basis for decision as to whether ornot matrimony is sufficiently attractive. And in that sheis vastly more independent than another who is broughtup to believe marriage is the end and aim of her maiden-hood. It may be well here to mention again the subject of 414 FEMINOLOGY. dress, and the specially cultivated deformity of the Cau-casian race of women. It seems strange that any peoplewould cultivate a deformity of any kind, but it is true, fromantiquity to the present. Stranger yet, that the race pre-sumably the most enlightened should practice constantlythe most injurious of all deformities upon the female half
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Cultivated Deformities. From Good Health, April, 1899. of the race. Strangest of all, that women themselves, afterhaving learned the injurious effects of deformity-cultiva-tion, will continue in the error of their way, for sake offashion. Men are often accessories to the crime of waist-compression, through condemning an uncorseted sister orwife as being slouchy. Unless she is well grounded inthe principle of sparing herself the sin and suffering, shemay return to that relic of the medieval idea of beauty.There are very few women of this day who know noth- THE DAUGHTER. 415 ing of the physiology of the human form, who do notknow that breathing is curtailed, the circulation hindered,and all the vital organs crushed in and interfered with intheir perfect work, by the corset. Within the lower chest and abdo-men (the portions deformed by corsetwearers) each organ has its properplace and is so related to the sur-rounding organs, that not one can bepressed or pushed without interfer-ing, to

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