The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-11-02

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ed the BOY, and composed himself
again TO lis nap. Whcreupon the
guest boltcd at once"
Lecture to Country Girls on Dress.
have wanted, girls, for long
time, TO give you long lecture on
dress, not because you don't think
enough about it, bnt because YOU
don't think right. 1t is very i'm
portant matter to be well dressed,
and most people feel this; but very
few ever learn the art. Women
waste more time and money disfgu-
ring themselves, than in all other &C.
equations and amusements. Yes,
and they waste wealth and happi-
ness alone. There is an inconcciy-
able amount Of worse than useless
sewing done in this country. Thou
sands Of women ruin their health,
send themselves to an untimelv
grave, putting in stitches that are
neither useful nor ornamental. Ibe-
lieve YOU country girls are peculiar
ly addicted to this folly. Most of
you make your own dresses, and few
Of You understand it well, conse-
quently you imagine the more stitch
eS you put in the better. Then, from
want eff properly cultivated taste,
You are addicted to buying cheap
iinerv. You need not deny this to
me, for know you too well. Ihave
lived among You o little too long, not
too know how country girls dress -
F.. Your storckeepers know it too. and
bring ont such parcel OF cheap
tawGry, manv-colored fnery as
would be likely to take fancy of a
set Of Indians. If they can get lawn
OF calico with sixty-sevcn dozen COL
ors in it, so much the better. You
bus it-spend great deal of time to
make it nicely-spatter it over with
rufIles, folds, and frumples, that
would disfgure anything. Then the
first time it is washed, ffty-two DO
zen of colors fade; YOU haue dirty
rag that is fit for nothing butto wipe
the floor. You lament the loss Of
your money, but what of your time
The habit Of sew. sew, sewing at q
/; garment sixteen times as much as
is necessary TO make il, has become
an evil Of sufficient magnitude TO re.
quirc legislative Interference.
once saw a city lady so to tee coun
try for heaHh-pale, nervous, cross
miserable ; with little child as mi
serable as herself. By way of enjoy.
, ing fresh air and exercise, she sa
down and sewed diligently for two
p full days to make an apren for tn,
! child. There were folds, buttons
p and braid-frumples and fandangoe
past count, and she had some dozen
{ to make of the same sort, while tn,
o poor little child martyr was condem
f ned to imprisonment and stripes t.
= prevent its disliguring the evidence
i Of its mothers insanity, which i
, wore on its poor miserable little per
i son. | never felt more strongl,
e tempted to 90 anything than to rol
! mother and child, fncry and work
5 basket in a mud-puddlc. 7 rcall
@ thought her husband should hav
been entitled TO a divorce. Health
happiness and comfort were Danish
ed from his fresidc by the SEWN,
a demon. She completely ruined he
= own health sewing, then murdcrc,
her children by inches 10 keep thcr
from soiling her work. A woma
, who cannot make a half.dozen bib
E, for children in one day, and With al
. the requisites of comfort and con
venience, should never take nee
die in her fingers" -.NrS. .SwiSS
helm, ofMe Pii,burgh Sat- F&1