The Weston Democrat

Frail Beauties.

A Wisconsin lady writes to the Woman's Journal as follows: The fact is that the young American girls are almost all delicate; many are confirmed invalids; many are dying in their first bloom every year. For myself, I have known, within the last five or six years, in a little village of 2,000 inhabitants in Wisconsin, a dozen young ladies who have died. They have nearly all died of anemia, consumption, spinal meningitis, and similar diseases. Two were married and died within the year. But one or two of the number had received anything more than a common school education. One or two were seamstresses, and one or two were farmers' daughters. None of them had led a life of fashionable dissipation. I know another dozen to-day who are hopeless invalids. School causes would seem to have more to do with the ill-health of these. One, lying now at the point of death, is a graduate of a female seminary, and has never known a well day since her graduation. Perhaps you will not wonder at this when I tell you that for the last term that she was in school she was not able to study, and prepared all her lessons in bed. Do you not think missionaries should be abroad in Wisconsin, with a special message to the heads of female seminaries? Four or five of these invalids came of the same school, but none of the others graduated. Two have spinal diseases, two consumption, and several of the others uterine diseases in one form or another.