Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-14
A Short Sermon to Mammas.

Declining ladies, especially married la
dies, are more given, think, to neglect their
personal appearance, when they ara consci
Gus that the bloom of their youth is gone,
than men. do not speak IF public coca
sions, of set dinner parties and full dressed
balls, but of the domestic life. Now how
ever is the time, of all others, when the wife
must determine to remain the pleasing wife,
and return her John Anderson's affection to
the last, by neatness. taste, and proper
variety of dress. That a lady has fast
growing daughters, strapping SOM, and
husband at his office all day long, is no rea-
son why she should ever enter the family
circle with rumpled hair, soiled cap and un-
fastened gown. The prettiest woman in the
world would be spoiled by such sins in her
toilet The morning duties, even in the
store room and kitchen, may be performed
in fling tidy costume, and then changed
for parlor habiliments equally tidy and
fitting The fashion Of the day should al
uays be reflected in wOman's dress, accord
ing TO her position and age; the eye Graves
TOR variety rs keenl V rs the palate; and then
| honestly protest, whatever her age, ma
turslly good looking women is always hand
some. For, happily, there exists more than
one kind of beauty There is the beauty Of
youth, the beauty Of maturity, and believe
ladies aid gentlemen, the beauty ofage, if
YOU do not spoil it by your own want of judg-
ment At any age a woman may be becom-
ingly and pleasingly dressed.
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