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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1864
Copyright
Public Domain
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-The Kev. Ilenry Ward èhér süVH : "A girl is not allowea to bo ti girl al'tor tho s ten yoars old. Ii you treat her 'lis tbough she vvere one, alie will ask you what you mean. If she starts to run acroas tho streot, sbo is broiifilit back to tho nursery to listeu to a lectura on the propriety ot womanhood. Now it seems to me that ft girl ought to be rio' hing but a gir! nutilshe isseventeen. Ofcourse tbcre are propeities buhingiug to her st-x, which it is fitting for her lo observe, but )t sooms Co me that asido íroni these she ought to have the utmost latitutle. öheought to bo encouraged to do muoh out of doorr", to run and exercise in all thoso ays which are calculuted to develop the muscular frame. VVbat ia true of bovf, in the iiiiUter of brnlily health, is eminently so of girls. It s viJstiy more important to woman. Man votes, and writes. and does business, but woman is the teacher uud the mother of the world ; and anything that deteriórales woman is a comprehensivo plague on huma hfj itself. Health among wom! en is a thing that every man who $ ' We and considérate for his race,Bh"uki

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Old News
Michigan Argus