The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-07-01
AN ARTICLE FOR OUR LADY READERS.


| We find the following in the Lafourche
Ia.) Union,-but can't tell whether it is
original there or not Mo matter,-itis is
a capital article, and should be read by
every lady in the land;
HOW TO PRES ERvE WOMEN.
There is nothing in the world that we
think so much of as we do women. Our
mother is wOman-wife, sisters, pretty
cousins, are women; and the daughters
will be if Heaven spare them J they
live long enough. And then there is a
love of women in general which we do
not deny. A fine, magnificent specimen
of the sex, full of life and health, ripe
red cheek, and flushing eye, is something
that does one good to look at as she illu-
inmates the humdrum sidewalks and eve
ry day streets. A North River Steamer
under full headway, colors flying is rath-
er a pretty sight,--rather stirring and in
spring; and we pull up our tired nag to
see her pass and admire the swell she
cuts. Comparatively, however, the stea-
mer sinks into inSigniticance, or some
other very deep water, by the side of a
well kept, we'll dressed woman. There
is no rubbing it out; women are the or
nament, charm, blessing, beauty and bliss
of lite,-(men's life, we mean. of course.)
And means that can be devised for pre-
serving taem should be publicly made
known. You cannot pickle them. You
cannot do them up in sugsr and set them
in cold room, with a paper soaked in
brandy over their mouths. You cannot
put them up in cans and seal them up
air tight, without injuring their form and
flavor. Now, as men are so dependent
upon women for life's choicest blessings,
Ia proper mode of preserving them be-
comes of great moment, and We are sure
that the public will thank us for an infal-
libe receipt.
Have the feet we'll protected, then pay
the next attention to the chest. The
chest is the repository of the vital or
lgans. There abide the heart and lungs.
| 1t is from the impressions made upon
these organs through the skin, that the
shivers comes. 1t is natures quake
the alarm bell--at the onset of danger.
A woman never shivers from the effect
of cold upon her limb, or hands, or head !;
but let the cold strike through her cloth
ing on her chest, and off go her teeth in
to chatter, and the whole organism is
in comm0tion. One sudden and severe
impression of cold upon the chest has
slain its tens of thousands. Therefore,
while the feet are well looked after. new
er forget the chest. These points atten-
ded to, the natural connection of the
dress will supply the rest, and the woman
is ready for the air. Now let her visit
her neighbors, go shopping, call upon the
poor, and walk for the good of it, for the
fun of it.
Keep away from the stove or register.
Air that is dry or burnt, more or less
charged with gases evolved by the fuel,
is poison. Go up stairs and make the
beds with mittens on. Fly around the
house like mad, and ventilate the rooms.
Don't sit pent up in single room with
double windows. Fruit will not retain
its full form and flavor in air tight cans ;
neither will women. They need air. II
the shiver come on during these opera
tions, go directly and put on something
more about the chest.
| Again, do not live in dark rooms.--
Light fades the carpet, but feeds the flow
er. No living animal or vegetable can
enjoy health in darkness. Light is al
most as necessary as air, and brown
tan is far preferable, even as a matter o.
beauty, to a sickly paleness of complex
ion.
i Thus much in regard to the physica
means for preservation. Every woman
should be married to an excellent man
Marriage, it is true brings care aud wear
but it is the ring that is worn that keeps
bright, and the watch that lies still ant
unwound that gets out of order. The
sweet sympathies evolved in the rela
tiuns of the family, the new energies de
; veloped by new responsibilities, the new
compensation for all outlays of strength
bring about delightful play of the hear
and intellect which, in their reaction upol
the body, produces an effect that is moth
ing less than preservation. Then. there
is higher moral power than this-ont
which we speak Of soberly and honestly
No one is completely armed against the
encroaching ills of life, who has in tht
heart no place for religion. The calm
ness, the patience, and the joy and hop'
that are in possession of that woman
whose heart is right in its highest rela
tion, can never fail to preserve ant
heighten every personal power and charm
that she possesses.
There! you have the receipt. Som
, of it is in sportive form, but it is no
! the less sober truth. 1t has within it th
, cure for many disease-the preventiv
, for much. It might be made longer
| but when We see its prescriptions uuiveI