Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-10
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A Letter to the Girls IN the Count

Well girls, | got such a scoding from
one ot cur numbcr for writing no letter last
week, that | am afraid to oneglcct it this tine
\ GU know | said could quilt almost us fast
as two Of you. The reason is, [ take care of
y hands Onc-halt Of you are too proud to
do ttls, You would not bc caught putting
glove on to sweep, or hoe, or weed in the gar
den, because YOU think it would look us if YOU
wanted TO bc Gne ladies If you see any one
taking care OF thoir hands, or careful to wear
IL sun bonnet to preserve her complexion, you
say She is proud and stuck up But it is
you who arc proud-too proud to think you
require any care to look nice. You have an
idea you look well enough at any rate SO
you just make yourself as rough and coarse
as ever you can, by way of being independents
Your hands grow as stiff and hard rs if YOU
held plough, aud swung scythc, and
when you take needle you can scarcely feel
1t i'll your fingers. This is wrong. There
are many things which women ought to do,
which require your hands to be soft and pill
able, and they should be careful to keep thcm
so III ordcrto make them useful! Every wo.
man wh" lives IN tic country s',nu,d knit her
self pjr OF gloves with fingers closed at the
! tops-no wits, to let the fingers get hard -
! There should he piece of ribbed work at the
/ wrist to make them stay on. When YOU use
| your hoe, rake or broom, put your gloves
-whcn You take hold of pot or skillet, take
= clutn to keep your hands from being scared
and hardcu,d. When YOU wash clothes or
dishes, do not have water so hot as to feel
unpleasant. Many girls scald their hands
until they can put them in water almost boil
ing. Such hands are uuit to use "A needle or
pin. They are not SO good to hold a baby or
dress wound. Take care Of your hands and
do not forget your faces. have seen so ma
ny country girls, who at sixteen had com
plcXon like alabaSter and ut twcuty-SiX their
faces would look like a runnct-bag. that had
hung six weeks in tn, chimney corner. One
reason of this is, they do not wear bonnet to
! protect them from the sun Another reason
| is, the habit they have of baking their faces
before wood fire. | have seen women stand
before great roasting fire, and cook until
thought their brains were as well stcwed MS
the chickens and they would make no at
tempt to shield their heads from the hoat.-
| Nay, they will set down in the evening, and
bake their faces by the hour and this is one
of the reasons why American women crow
old, withcrcd and wrinklcd, fifteen or twenty
| years before their time But another and the
greatest reason is, your diet. People in this
| country live too well and cat too much hot
/ bread and meat. Country people usually cat
richer food than those who live in the cities
and that is a reason why, with all their fresh
air, their average age is little greater than ci-
ty folks. Thousands of beautiful blooming
! country girls make cid, salluw faced women
OF themselves before they are thirty, by drink
ing hot coffee, eating hot bread and greasy
victuals. They shorten their lives by these
| practices about much as the city ladies
with their fashionable follies | do not know
what you think about it girls, but | think it
about as much sin for women to get old brown
and withercd faces, by eating too much, as it
is for men to get red noses by drinking too
much Very few people think it disgrace
to have bilious fever; but had Just as leave
the doctor would tell me that | was drunk MS
that | was bilious. The one would come
from drinking too much, the other from eat
ing too much. and where is the difference p
Al tins is serious mattcr, for it affects health
and life; and the reason why | talk about
your complexion in speaking of it is, that
every one loves to look well whether they will
acknowledge it or not. Now, people cannot
look well unless they are well; and no one
can be well very long who does not try to take
care of himself The woman who roasts her
head by the fire disorders her blood brings
on headaches, Injuries her health, and makes
her face to look like piece of leather
When she swallows hot coffee, hot bread,
greasy victuals, and strong pickles, she des-
troys her stomach, rots her teeth. shortcns hc.
life, and makes herself too ugly for any use,
| except soaring the crows off the corn"
J.GS.
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