Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-10-15
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Woman shonld recollcct that she has a sum
mer and spring, an autumn and a winter. Like
the rose, she buds, she blooms, she fades, she
dies When the freshness OF youth is passed,
and woman reaches thirty, she may be con-
siIered as at her meridian-a few short years,
and the sportive manner aud the gay lively
laugh. must all be changed for the tottering and
falteiing step of old aye. Ii would be well for
woman To throw shadow over her charms rats-
er than to keep them in the light till they de
cav Regarding dress, She said that for youth
to dress like old age was foolishness rarely
sSen. but for old age to dress ike youth was
not less frequent than ridiculous When gay
Young girl dresses TO charm, we say she is doing
SO To accomplish her ends; hut when wrinksed,
naughty maiden attempts to make con9uestS, II
Is absurd, for all her rougc-box will not oblite-
rate the wrinkles Of age. She alluded to cos
metics, and, as whole, condemned their use.
There were three ways of preserving the com
piexion, and these weTc:-lst, Temperance; I'd,
Exercise: Sd, Cleanliness. LIST, Temperance.
This should be followed not only at the table,
but in what the world is pleased 10 term pleas
ures Late hours should also be avoided. Let
US take n look at what is termed moderate
breakfast There is coffee and hot rolls; bad
thing is this heated grease: it produces bilious
ness, Il yellow hue, soon OverspreadS the skin:
For dinner, there is generally wesl-peppcred
soup. fish, meat; troaStcd. boiled and Stewed,)
tarts. pics. creams, &C. Now how must the
constitution suffer in swallowing this melange
How does the heated complexion without bear
witness to the combustion going on within
Then beverage is takcE to wash the dinner
down. Not water but suth poisonous drugs as
beer, ale, porter and champagne.
Let the fashionable keep up this and late
hours, and the lOoking-glasS will soon tell her
that we all fade. The one fair skin soon be-
comes loose nahbid and yellow. This is almost
bT ,atljinO n fvIS shane
where there IS none. Then stays are used to
compress nature, not to speak Of hnStles and
hoops hut useless arc they all If dissipation anu
late hours arc continued for they will wreck
the lovelics of female charms, and 1t is not III
the power of DR.. EseulapiuS himself TO repair
the bark and make it sail the sea i'll gallant
trim again. ,. She would recommend gentle
and daily exercise IN Ike open air, and believed
that it is to this the English ladies owe their
worid.rcnowcd beauty. Nature, that great BOOK
which never lies, tells us that it is necessary Tor
the growth and symmetry of the human form.
How many rich lady womld give $1,000 Tor
the Gui! round arm, and the bloom on tho cheek
oE her kitchen maid; and might she not have
Tie same Charm by using the same means!
+ Cleanliness yeas Indispensable to maintain
the limbs in pliaRtneSS and the skin iii SnttneSS
and the entire human frame in order. The tc-
pil bath should be frequently used, and by 1t
the bo5v is kept free and many auty-ticstroy-
all over the world. Nearly every peiS"" :" 10y
cjty in Europe, excepting England, Las IN tiieir
house one Of ti,,ee friends to the human traine.
Every lady should rake her bath ne indisprnsa-
bic as her locking glass. While she was IN IA
riS every fashionable lady was in the habit OF
bathing i'll milk, SO nnch so that milk became
scarce for domestic use. But the ArguS-eycd
Police found out that the milk-vendcrs were in
the habit Of buying back from the servants the
milk used in the bath, by their mistrcsseS and
vending it out to their customers to be used III
thrsr tea and >oltce.
5 She also stated that the ladies of Paris
. were in the habit Of putting their faces
! up with law beef at night tn prevent the
sloiiins Of their complexion. What sight it
: would be for n lover to behold his lady love
! with her face done zap Ike sandwich! Hnt
these things were not for lovers To see, o" even
to hear. The Spanish women had smaller hands
T, and feet, and to keep them so they would tor
tu.c themselves with ban,lageS. They were III
the habit of sleeping at night with their hands
held up by puilcyS to make them white: aud
: they actually even carried lccches in box, aud
when an opportunity occurred applied them !"
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particularly Bohemia, young girls drink from
arscnical springs Ia keep them plump; but when
t Once drank the water has 10 he continued. II
! takes some women half a lifetime to find out that
ucn will tiirt with them, and still lave res
poet for uc:m. To bc appreciated, n woman
must have merit and a fine mind aud without
them she will never command esteem She had
seen beauties in every country in the world,
. but size knew OF no cosmetic which could make
female lovely without good heart and fine
mind 1t was tI.i, spiritual feeling wi.i.h gave
expression to the eyes, aud light up the Whole
body as if it Thought. She never saw woman
that adorned by these accomplishments,
= but what she at once fell in love with her; and
the only Size had was, that she uot
lnun that she could marry her.
Tile lecture was frequently greeted with ear
nest and hearty applause, and became from the
first popularity with the audience. Her man
ncr Of delivery is graceful aud effective. her
voice clear and agreeable, aud her whole APP
Pcarancc engaging to IL" last degree. The lee
ture a success in every respect. She spoke
. mn hour and quarter aud was listened to
, throughout with undivided and most coinpli-
: mcntary attention.
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