Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-04-10
From the Field Notes. ]

MRs. FANNY D. GAGE GryEs SoMz
Coon ADVICE TO GIRLs.-"I believe
that during the twenty-six years have
practiced in this city, twenty-thousand
children have been carried to the cem-
eteries, a sacrifice to the absurd custom
Of exposing their arms and necks."
So says distinguished physician Of
Paris, and may not the same be said in
this country Of the same absurd Gus
tom? It is sad to see young children
die, but it is terrific to see the young
and gifted. Just budding into woman
hood, passing away, burying the hopes
and aspirations of eighteen or twenty
summers. with all the care and culture
bestowed upon them, under the sodl-
And yet / know that the number Of
young girls may be counted by thou.
sands, who commit suicide, BY appear
ing at parties. balls and festivals, with
bare arms and necks, and thin shoes
and stockings, and late hours.
1t really does seem that American
women spend time and money without
stint, to make themselves miserable as
possible. Here is the thermometer at
zero; winds blowing chill as Lapland.
but Mrs. Makeshow is TO have party:
guests to arrive at half past nine P. NJ.
young ladies in q flutter of excitement
all day. New bands, laces, Hounces
and frills to be arranged for evening,
and often all this accompanied by a
consciousness that if new toilet is
made, it must be by working old things
into new, not to make them becoming,
or tasteful, but because it is perfectly
rediculous"-so says Mrs. Brainless,
wife Of Sir Gripes Brainless-"to wear
the same dress twice in one season to a
party"
So it is worry, worry all dsy-don't
want a bit of dinner, excitement has
killed appetite. Of course no supper, be-
cause Mrs. Makeshow always gets up
such splendid suppers. And SO some
delicate girl. who wears a heavy me-
rino or delain all day, with a pair ol
knit woolen undersleeves, las like as
not) and a blanket shawl round her
neck to keep her from freezing in a
warm room, finds herself ready at nine
O'Clock at night, after twelve hours oil
labor and excitement, with an empty
stomach. and exhausted system, cold
feet and throbbing brain, ready to dress
herself in gauze, lace or silk, with low
neck and short sleeves, to take off her
high boots and common stockings, and
supply their places by kid or satin and
thin silk, and to pass from the cozy,
warm, home sitting.room, into Mrs.
Mskeshow's splendid double psrlors,
that have been neither warmed nor
aired for six months, and are now only
a fortieth part Of degree above the
freezing-point.
Obi those naked arms, pimpled with
goose Resh, and purple with frozen
blood. OIL for that shiyering form,
gliding among bellies and beaux, the
former as senseless and uncomfortably
dressed as themselves: the latter i-
close knit undershirt, up to the very
roots OF the hair, good white shirt
over that, a double-back and double
breasted thick satin vest, well wadded
on the back and breast, over that a
broad-cloth coat lined and padded.
over that at least six thickness Of thick
cotton flannel, and broad-cloth over
the neck and shoulders, and four thick.
nesses from shoulder to waist, and not
BIT too warm; with wooden hose and
calf-skin boots on their feet. Man is
The lord, of course be must keep
warm-but "Angsi Womant' ah mel
it is dreadful to think Of battle field,
with its killed and wounded; but, il the
truth could be known, parties and balls.
in high life or low life, win kill BY slow
tortures, more women this winter
throughout our country, than will fall
in the conflict between the North and