There is no physical reason why a woman should be more feeble
or diseased than a man. Stanley was furnished with two hundred
negro women to carry his stuff into the interior of Africa,
and he found them the best porters he had employed, altho
he felt very doubtful about accepting their services when
first proposed. The Mexican Indian woman is able to carry her
household goods on her back with two or three babies on top
when a change of location is desirable. Meanwhile her husband
trudges bravely along carrying his gun. On the continent of
Europe most of the heavy work is done by women. In Vienna women
and dogs are frequently hitched together, and sometimes a woman
is yoked with a cow to draw a load of produce to the city. Many
of these peasant women will carry upon their heads a load of
vegetables that few American men could easily lift. These women
have the muscles of the waist and trunk thoroughly developed.
Despite their hardships, they do not suffer from the backache
or displacements, or other ailments which the women who dress
fashionably are constantly afflicted with.--_Phrenological
Journal._
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=Women, Courage of=--See BRAVERY OF WOMEN.
=Women Fighting Disease=--See TUBERCULOSIS.
=Women Graduates=--See ALUMNÆ OCCUPATIONS.