The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1858-04-29

HAC silly OHSResuASdNbOWs
Every young woman who has arrived
twenty yeOrs of ssges has pissed through
three dispeRsations--lhe chaotic. the ,ransI
ionsl and the crystalline. The chsOlic
usually terminates wii6 The adoption Of The
long skirt. Then tohitaences the process
Of crys.aIliAatidn This p,ocess may go on
feebly for years, or it may proceed SO rapid
ly that t&O years will complete il. In some
women. Il is never completed. 10 conse-
queuce Of d lack of Inherent vital force, or
critflral disregard of the requisite condi-
| tiont. This transitional dspensation, which
| for CONVENIENCE Of characterization, will
call the silly dispensation, is so full OF dan
gers that it calls for a separate letter; and
this propose 10 write now. .ts
The silly dispensation or stage Of o young
woman's life is marked BY mary curious
symptoms, some Of them indicative Of dis
ease. AS the cutting Of the natural teeth
is usually accompanied by various disorders,
SO the cutting of the spiritual teeth in wo-
men is very apt to exhibit its results in abb
normal Manifestations. They sometimes
eat slate pencils and chalk, and SOME have
been known Is tuke kindly to broken bits of
plasterIng. Others tOke literary turn,
and, not content with any humber Of epis-
ties TO female ac1haintances, send in con-
tributioha to the press, which the friendly
and appreciutive editor kindly and carefully
re,dtnS. or ns kindly and carefully loses, or
fails to receive. others still take to shop
ping and dawdling with clerks who have
! dawning boards, red cheeks, and frock coats
with outside pockets from which protrude
white handkerchieftips. Still others yoke
themselves in pairs, drawn together by sym
pathetic attraction. and by community OF
mental exercise on the subjcct of beaux.--
You shall see 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 chamber
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their voices has soothed you in sleep; and
the same voices, with the sotIie uhBroken
hum; shall greet your ears in the morning
Others take to solitude and long curla.--
They walk with their eyes down, tntsmtr-
ing to themselves, with the itttpress!oh tha.
everybody is looking at them.
If a voting wotttan can be safely carried
Though thiH aispensation, the great steP oI
life will have beeh gained. This is the era
of hasty marriages., deathless attachments
which lsst until they are superseded. and
deliberately formed determinations to live q
maiden life. which endure until the recep-
tion Of an offer Of tiiafriage. If, during this
period young %omaR be at home, engaged
more or ls.s in the duties Of the household
or, If she be engaged in study with the
hsalthful restraints ahd stimulus of general
society about her Il is very we'll for her. Il
she finds hsrsel: pd5sessea with unaccotnt
able proclivi,ies to mineral diet, or a fog
gy out reaching for something or othsr tina
manifests itself in profound confidence with
one similarly afflicted, Of any one of d htn-
dred absorbing sentiments lisms, let her re-
member that she is mentally and morall.
sick, and that for her own comfort an
peace she shctild seek at once for rertiedy
Her only safety is in seeking direct contac
with a healthier and more advanced life, anC
by securing healthful occupation for all he
powers, intellectual and physical Dreams
imaginations, silly talk and twaddle abou
voting men, yearnings alter eympatheti
hearts, the dandling of precious litt
thoughts about beaux on the Knees of fan
cy, and a II that aort of nonsense, should b
discarded--kicked ont of the sacred pre-
cincts of the tfind--aa if they we're SO man
foul reptiles. Get out of this feverish an
unhealthy :tathe just as soon as possible
and walk forth into more natural, dignifie
and womanly lide.
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