The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Girls.

The Girls.
The literary world seems just now to be
much absorbed in a new work from the pen of
DR.. Holland, alias "Timothy Titeomb," of
Springfield, Mass. ...
In speaking of young women, the Dr.. divides
their first twenty years into three dispense.
tons, the chaotic, the transitional, and the
chrySaline, the chaotic terminating with the last
season of "short dresses" and pantalets, and
the hair done up in ''brads;" the transitional
commencing with long skirts, and the hair
"done up in papers, Then comes the chrysa.
line age, in which the woman is developed,
and the girl that was. becomes the woman that
10 to be. How important, then, to young la
dies, that the passage through this transitional
state should be well guarded. and how impor-
tant to parents, that this in the life Of their
offspring so truly set forth in this homely way,
should be well cared for. This 10 the Dt,s
transitional state:
"The silly dispensation or stage Of young
woman's life is marked by many curious symp-
toms, some of them Indicative of disease. As
the cutting OF the natural teeth is usually &C.
comranied by various disorders, so the cutting
OF the spiritual teeth in woman 10 very apt 10
exhibit its results in abnormal manifestations.
They some times eat slate pencils and chalk,
and some have been known to take kindly to
rary turn, and. not content with any number of
spistles from lady acquaintances, send in con.
tributions to the press. which the friendly and
appreciative editor kindly and carefully returns,
or as kindly and carefully loses, or fails to re-
ceive. Others still take tn shopping and david
ling with clerks who have dawning boards, red
cheeks. and frock coats with side pockets,
from which protrude white handkerchief.tip
Still others yoke themselves in pairs, drawn to- |
gether by sympathetic attractions, and by COM |
munity of mental exercise on the sub iect of
heaux. You shall sec them walking through |
the streets, locked arm in arm, plunging into the
most charming condolences, or if you happen to
sleep in the house with them, you shall hear
them talking in their chambers until, at mid |
night, the monotonous hum of their voices has
soethed you into sleep; and the same voices,
with the same unbroken hum shall greet your
cars in the morning. Others take to solitude
and long curls. They talk with their eyes
down, murmuring to themselves, with the
impression that everybody is looking at
them.
If young woman can be safely carried through |
he dspensation the great step of life will have
heen gained. This is the era of hasty mar.
ragss, deathless attachments which last until
they are superseded, and deliberately formed
determinations to live maiden life, which en-.
lure until the reception Of an offer of marriage.
II, during this period, a young woman be at
iiome. engaged more or less in the duties of the
household, or, If she be engaged in study with |
'he Lealthful restraints and stimulus of society |.
about her, it is very well for her. But if she
DC among her mates constantly, with nothing
TO do, or If she be shut up in the boardng-school
conducted on the high pressure principle, where
imagination is stimulated by restraint and dis
Incidence 10 law is provoked by its unreason.
.bleness, it is indeed very bad for her.