[3] A letter to the author, inclosing twenty-five cents for expense of time and correspondence, will secure a circular with further account and directions for using this stove. Direct—Care of Dr. G. H. Taylor, New York city.
[4] For these statements the writer is indebted to Maudsley, a recent writer on Microscopic Physiology.
[5] Some extracts from medical writers in Note A will give the views of the most respected physicians all over the land on this point.
[6] The universal practice of this nation, in thus giving precedence to woman has been severely commented on by foreigners, and by some who would transfer all the business of the other sex to women, and then have them treated like men. But we hope this evidence of our superior civilization and Christianity may increase rather than diminish.
[7] The most effective mode of exercising the abdominal and respiratory muscles, in order to remedy constipation, is by a continuous alternate contraction of the muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm. By contracting the muscles of the abdomen, the intestines are pressed inward and upward, and then the muscles of the diaphragm above contract and press them downward and outward. Thus the blood is drawn to the torpid parts to stimulate to the healthful action, while the agitation moves their contents downward. An invalid can thus exercise the abdominal muscles in bed. The proper time is just after a meal. This exercise, continued ten minutes a day, including short intervals of rest, and persevered in for a week or two, will cure most ordinary cases of constipation, provided proper food is taken. Coarse bread and fruit are needed for this purpose in most cases.
[8] Luke xvi. In reading this passage, please notice what kind of guests are to be invited to the feast that Jesus Christ recommends.
[9] Fanny Kemble Butler remarked to the writer that she regarded theatres wrong, chiefly because of the injury involved to the actors. Can a Christian mother contribute money to support young women in a profession from which she would protect her own daughter, as from degradation, and that, too, simply for the amusement of herself and family? Would this be following the self-sacrificing benevolence of Christ and his apostles?
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