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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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d perhaps the weakened,puny, distorted, fretful little creature, who is innocent of the cause of its own suffer-ings, will live to become a curse to the world instead of the blessing that it wouldhave been had rational conditions been observed before its birth. Tight corsets grudgingly loosened a quarter of an inch at a time, heavy skirts, andall the evil conditions we are so familiar with, are still retained as the months pass,bringing ever nearer what should be the very happiest hour of womans existence —that in which she is to be intrusted with the keeping, training, and guidance of a newhuman soul. Perhaps her babv comes into the world dead or deformed, perhapsdeprived of certain of its faculties; or it mavbe that it possesses life and all of itsspecial senses and organs in such a diminished degree tnat the whole of its futurebecomes a pain rather than a ioy, while its miserable, puny structure remains a last-ing reproach to its parents as long as they live. Digitized by VjOOQIC
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