The use of apartments that are well ventilated.
Frequent and sufficient active bodily exercise in the open air.
Entire freedom from any pressure upon the person by the use of tight clothes.
A sufficiency of nourishing and digestible food.
And, in winter, the use of such firing as is needed to keep up a healthful warmth.
All these will tend to promote health, but we shall have no security against "delicate women" unless there be also added the cultivation of mental health.
For this, it is necessary that girls should be taught to cultivate mental purity and mental activity, by sufficient and well-regulated exercise of the mind.
Habits of benevolence, contentment, and cheerful gratitude should be inculcated, both by precept and example, to the exclusion of selfishness.
And, above all, should be strongly impressed upon the mind the necessity of the strictest integrity, which will lead to the abhorrence of every species of affectation, which is, indeed, only a modified sort of deceit.
Girls should also be early taught that they are responsible beings; responsible to God for the right use of all the mercies bestowed upon them; and that health is one of the chief of earthly blessings, and that it is their duty to value and preserve it.