The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-04-18
LETTERS TO COUNTRY GIRLS.

We commend the following article from the
"Pittsburgh Visiter," TO all our female readers.
Mrs. Swsshelm is doing her sex good by wri-
ting such Lectures. There is more truth, phil.
osophy and common sense in this lecture, than in
two-thrds OF the volumes written by the Med
ical men OF the world.-TTue Democrat.
Well girls, got such scoding from one OF
your number for writing no letter last week,
that am afraid TO neglect it this time. Yon
know said could quilt almost as fast as two Of
you. The reason is, take care of my hands
One halt of you are too proud to do this. You
would not be caught putting glove on TO sweep,
or hoe, or weed in the garden, because you
think it would look as if you wanted to be fine
ladies. Ii you see any one taking care OF her
hands, or careful TO wear sunbonnet to preserve
her complexion, you say she is 'proud and stuck
up" But it is you who proud too proud TO
think you require any care to look nice. You
have an idea you look well enough at any rate.
So you just make yourself as rough and coarse as
ever you can, by way of being independents
Your hands grow as stiff and hard as if you held
plough, and swung scythe and when you
take needle you scarcely feel it in your
fingers. This is wrong. There many things
which women oughtto do, which require your
hands to be soft and pable, and they should be
careful to keep them SO, in order to make them
useful. Every woman who lives in the country
fingers closed at the tops-not mits, to let the
fingers get hard. There should be piece oil
ribbed work at the wrist to make them stay on.
When you use your hoe, rake or broom, put on
your gloves-when you taEe hold Of a skillet, pot
or kettle handle, take a cloth to keep your hands
from being scared and hardened When you
wash clothes or dishes, do not have water so hot
as to feel unpleasant. Many girls scald their
hands until they can put them INTO water almost
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pin. They are not so good TO hold baby or
dress wound. Take care of your hands, and
do not forget your faces. have seen so many
country girls, who, at sixteen, had compilations
like alabaster and at 20, their faces would look
like runnet bag, that had hung SIX weeks in
the chimney corner. One reason OF this is, they
do not wear bonnet to protect them from the
sun. Another reason is the habit they have OF
baking their faces before wood 6re. have
seen some women stand before great roasting
fire and cook, until | thought their brains were
as well stewed as the chickens and they would
get so used to it they would make no attempt to
shield their heads from the heat Nay, they will
set down in the evening and bake their faces by
the hour; and this is one of the reasons why
American women grow old, wthered and wrink-
led, fifteen years before their time. But anoth-
er and the greatest reason is, your diet People
in this country live too we'll and eat too much
not bread and meat. Country people usually eat
richer food than those who live in the cities, and
that reason why with all their fresh air. their
average age is little greater than that OF
city folks Thousands OF beautiful, blaAgiEas.
country girls make old, sallsw faced
themselves before they thirty, by
coffee, smoking tobacco, and eating hea4
They shorten their lives by these
s ab A. @neh a f o know sT whit Kth S s
it, girls, but think il is about as much
for women to get old, brown, withered
eating too much, as it is for n3en to get
by drinking tco much. Verys3e people 4
disgrace to have bilious fever; but had ius,
as leave the doctor would tell me that was
drunk as that | was bilious The one would
come IRON drinking too much, the other from
eating too much? All this is serious matter.
for it affects health and life; and the reason why
talk about your complexion in speaking Of il
is, that everybody loves to look well whether
they will acknowledge it or not. Now, people
cannot look well unless they are well; and no
one can be well very long who does no, try
to take care of herself. The woman who
roasts her head By the fire, disorders her blood.
brings on ead-aches, Injuries her health, and
makes her face look like piece of leather
When she swallows hot coffee, hot bread, greasy
victuals and strong pickles, she DESTROYS her
stomach, rots her teeth, shortens her lie, and
makes herself too ugly for any use, except scar.
ing the crows off the corn. GS