Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-11-07

your follies, you are encouraged by the
sterner sex. Yet there are some which
are your own. Let me speak Of two
things-extrav gance and montrosity
in dress. In the days Of your mothers
six or eight yards OF silk was
enough for dress now you must
have sixteen. This enormitY docs not
beaurify you it renders you hideous.
There are sore Of your habits which
are 50 disgusting as ha, dly to be spo-
KEN mean all those devices which
have for their object the swelling out
of your forms, SO as to give prominence
to-what shall I say? AS if to imi-
tate the peacock, the very emblem Of
folly and vanity, you make your heads,
tbs seat Of the intellect, as little and
insignificant as possible, while the hips
are ampli6ed into the dimensio ns Of a
balloon!
This, my dear young ladies, is mad
ness. In the first place, it is very in
convenient. With your hoops and
crinoline, you are troublesome and an
noying, especially in public places ; in
the street, III the church, the theatre,
the omnibus and the rail car. You
long trains, disgusting as they sweep
up the mud and dust in streets, and
wipe the filth upon your pretty feet
and ankles, are very irritating in
crowded places, for they will be trod
upon, and then you look daggers.
And finally, my fair readers, these
things, generated and encouraged by
your mantuamakers, and your fear Of
each other, disgust those whom you
should desire to please j mean young
men. These modern extravagances Of
yours have done much to degrade YOU
sex in the eyes Of our sex. am al
cid man, and to me it is at once mourn
full and shocking to hear the vulgar
coarse jokes current among young gen.
tlemen, founded upon your monstrous
and extravaganza fashions. In tht
days when young ladies dressed anc
deportsd themselves modestly and taste
fully these things were not so.
I consider, therefore, that your vi
cious fashions have u positively vicious
tendency in society-they make you
thousands and hundreds of thousands
of you, old maids and as many mer
thus make woman scorning old bache.
lors. In general, it may be said tina
Cupid never was found in padding o.
hoops. Men don't fall in love will
walking store cases. And, besides
these tomfooleries Of yours are very
costly; and prudent young men, though
they may waltz and polk with them, il
general are very shy Of marrying them
Is it not good time to think O.
these things and to correct the folly
they imply? II I am judge of tn
ways Of the world, I am sure that re
turn to the economy, delicacy and goot
taste of other days, would greatly pro
mote your happiness, as we'll Is that O.
society in general, including yar pspas
who are obliged to foot your bids.
8. To Everybody.-Don't give W
the ship. 1t is dark day, but w
shall have a return Of bright weather
ere long. Don't yield to panic. Pan
ic is wild horse, and may carry yor
over precipice. In difficulty, in thu
pressure Of circumstances, maintain
your integrity, your character. Dc
nothing to-day that tomorrow may
make you ash med of. If others lost
their senses, walk thou in the even patti
Of wisdom and charity. Every man
will come out of the trial happier ane
better, even from the stern crucible OF
suffering. SENEX.