Solar Biology

SECOND PERIOD IN WOMAN'S LIFE. 265
At this period of life, and throughout childhood,
abundance of out-door exercise is especially necessary.
Nature prompts
all
young creatures to develop
all the
muscles of the body ; therefore, they incline to run and
play, and be constantly active while awake. Parents
too often take upon themselves the task of overruling
and suppressing this activity, thus bringing men and
women upon the stage of life less prepared for its uses
than the animal world is for theirs. Girls, especially,
are restrained in these natural muscular activities ;
and
so, from lack of development, the muscular supports of
the womb and abdomen are lax and weak, and we have
in consequence a long list of uterine malpositions, lives
of misery and nervous irritability,
because of these
suppressions of nature's promptings to exercise. It
becomes necessary, in giving a correct
measurement of
physical and mental ability, to judge as to what extent
these suppressions have affected the system, and in
what directions.
THE SECOND PERIOD AND DANGER IN WOMAN'S LIFE.
At the
menopause the ordinary periodical waste of
the system ceases, the forces are turned within, and the
demand for food lessened ; so, unless the appetite is
carefully restrained, there will be a clogging of the
system, or a surplus of vitality which may result in
gout, heart disease, paralysis, trembling palsy, and
many other diseases or derangements, according to the
function or sign in which they were born.
In reality,
they have simply completed the first or natural cycle of
the generative forces which has relation to the procrea-