The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-08-09
why he Married an irish Girl.
BY MRS. MARY O. VAUGHAN.

| pI mks. MARY Cs FAu6HAHs
"My son." said Mr.. N, ahow could yo,
marry an Irish girlp "Why, Father" sai'
the boy, +" Pm not able 10 keep two womel
If I'D married Yankee girl, I'd have hae
10 hire an Irish girl 10 take care of her,
There is biting sarcasm and fearful tru,l
hidden in the above little scrap which We
have caught as it foated OIL the surface O
the tide OF newspapers. Who can wonder
while looking al the pale-faced, Ianguid wo.
man one meets on every side, that man
would feel il terrible risk TO take such q
! one for wife. Lotions, and cosmetics, and
rosues cannot conceal entirely The pallor oil
disease, Or the languor born of enfeebled
constitutions, even though these creatures Of
hair-cloth and grass-cloth, and padding, and
laces, with their sweeping robes of costly tisi
sues, affect matchless form of rarsst grace
Many Of them would look upon natural
waist as an actual deformity; and SO with
their murderous appliances Of steel and whale
bone, and silken cords deadly as the hang
mans rope, they bind down The elastic frame-
work of their bodies, ard press the delicate
organs OF life, that henceforlh cry continually
in their own fearful language of pains and
tremors and sIeeplessness, and indigestion,
"give, give, give room, give air, or we per-
ish and you perish with u.s."
God pity these women, say wes-those sui
cides-ihey have placed themselves beyond
mortal aid. Suffering is their lot, and help.
lessness, and continual reproach If they have
dared 10 think. What creatures for wives and
mothers
All, these are the mothers Of The little whey
faced, or sallow puny creatures who tricked
out from behind closed windows upon the
passers by or walk solemnIy behind their nur-
ses in the streets. There is nothing of the
activity and hiIarity of childhood about these
little beings, whose fine light hair tortured in
TO curls and the unnatural blueness of whose
complexion tell of scrofuIous dialhesis.-
They look prematureIy oId-ihey soon fade
away-the fashionable mammas look inter-
estng for little time on their mourning
weeds--little graves accumulate in the church.
yards and cemeteries--and the newspapers
have lengthy disquisitions upon the terrible
mortality of infants.
OF course, if man "marries a Yankee
girl he must hire an Irish glrl TO take care OF
her," Fortunate man if one Irish sirl suffi-
ces for The demands OF the feeble, helpless
creature. And il is refreshing 10 look from
The pale mistress 10 the rosy Irish girl, even
though she may be coarse or even little
gross in appearance. Health bounds In her
veins. There is strength and power in hef
muscT( They have been developed by
harder exercise than lhummng the harp or
lingering the pianoforte.
But the men-at least the younger ones
full two.thirds of them, are as puny as the
women. What the next generation would
be-other than generation of mouldering
little bodies in tiny graves, il is difficult 10
say, unless some OF the young men, like that
sensible fellow chronicled above, do marry
with these healthy Irish and German girls
who can net only take care of themselves,
but their houses, their husbands and their
childten.
They cannot be more ignorant of The laws
OF life than mos: of their educated sisters,
and they have The advantage of healthy con-
s:iiu.ions. The ignorance of physiological
and hygienic laws among educated women
would be amusing were il not piliful. II by
a strange accident one of the poor creatures
happens 10 have anything so useful, she is
ashamed TO have any person aware OF The
fact.
No lady who possessed canaries would be |
ashamed to know their wanis-whal food was |
proper for tbem-what treatment necessary |
during The process of morIting and incuba-
tion--whai care demanded for the well.being |
OF the little fledgings, &C., sc. But 10 know
anything Of the anotomy and physiology of
the human body-how indelicate To
know what food and treatment is best adap- |
ted for the children by the fireside--how i'm
propsrl
We are amt and yet panied 10 hear a
few day siuc< The remarks of a lady mo-
wing in the bes, circles of this city, whose
name, among other Influential ones, had been
lent as trustee of Hospital for Women. She
in whisper to lady physi-
clan that she was much interested in physi-
ology. but she would not have her physician
know i, for the world, nor one of her social
circle. And she is sickly woman whom
little knowledge acquired years since, might
have saved from those long years of suffer
ing. And with all her wealth, her refine
nent and education, not one bit happier is
fhe, no, one Bit better fitted for many OF the
= important duties of life than the Irish
rho "takes care of her.,
i Coon DAYS WoRK.-Mr. John w. Bit
zsr, of West Earl township, Lancaster coun-
Iv IN Cafurdav ueek cut ian aeraa of veru |