Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-05-13
The Women of the Present Day
From the Cincinnati CommerciaI.l

IRON Inc CINCINNATI commercial
The Woman of Society is a highly arti.
fetal p roductior-got up to a pre-es'abfished
standard, and to suit a particular demand.
She is bred, fed, trained, dressed, schooled
and accomplished to fl the supposed re-
quirsments OF a particular market. To pro-
mote this end. father, mother, and the pub
lie all give their a ssistance ; and, therefore,
she is less to blame than those who have
directed the processes that have made her
wbaf she is.
.T&e FIST dekusiu.he education of the
young woman Of American. belonging to the
class to which we refer is. that they are
not taught to lsbo. w ithout The basis oe
acquired capacity for consecutive and pro-
ductive labor for a useful purpose, no relia-
BILE character can he bull, nor any qualities
ncqui red ,ha, will be deemed valuable BY
such as look for usefulness rather than show
in a future combanion. This want of that
training whose effert is to confer a capacity
for labor. to the ord rary observer produces
its most injurious effects upon the physical
constitution. No wo man, who has not been
made to endure fatigue by means of a regu-
lar ,nd kealthful work, until such endurance
has grown into a habit, and impressed itself
upon her frame, has any good ground to hope
to pass through the pains and trials OF ma
tern iy without broken health and a nervous
system shattered and discoldant. But it is
not the physical const tuition that alone suf-
fers from habits of idleness. The mind and
morals will be equally he losers, for with
out the ability, nay, without the habit and
pr actice of labor, no substantial learning
can be acquired, no enduring principles of
good conduct received and assimilated.
Young women. educated to do nothing, are,
therefore, undesirable in every respect; and,
of this fact thousands of worthy young men
are so well aware, that they entertain n
most rational and ~salutary fear oil the silken
butterflies whom they meet in society. and
who, in far too many cases, are Totally des-
titute Of that indispensable defense of fe-
male virtue and condition precedent to good
ness and US illness habits of industry.
We are inclined to think that fear of a
loss of health on the part of the wife conse-
quent upon marriage is not one of the most
powerful Of the causes Of the dread enter
Gained by young men, in certain classes of
sneiety, 10 enter into the marriage state
Men who admire a blooming woman are not
prone to hook SO far into gloomy contingent
cies as to anticipate a speedy transformation
into a walking skeleton. There is another
c~auseSAhsi is pse more porehr, and We
suspect. mncb m IRE potent in its operation.
Men of ordinary prudence. when thinking %
marriage. are prone to inquire into the cost
Of the operation and their own ability to
meet it now and in future. Into this c.lcu-
lation enters an estimate of the economical
character Of the woman-her habits of ex.
pen1iture-her capacity to help herself
her promises os usefulness to her husband-
her knowledge OF that which is necessary
as a wife. A young man who is worth the
having will settle all these propositions tn
his own satisfaction before he commits him
self by an irrevocable promise; and il is
right that be should. And it is, to say the
least, highly probable that. not being able
as females are nowadays made up--to do,
so within the circle Of his AGO uain,ance
many c mar ~refrains from marriage alto.
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