The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-03-21
MceREeoR, IOWA. WEI lNEsDAY, MARCH 21 1866
Fashionable Women.

Mrs stowe Is expatiating in the Atlanti
Monthly on the imperfect physical develop
ment of American girls. ard comparing witt
their lank proportions the rotund bust and ru
bicund visage of the domestics whose muscle
are expanded by scrubbing floors and polislin,
the utensils of the kitchen. There is goot
deal of truth in this. American women, pa
tcularly of the strong minded cast, who dea
with politics and foreign missions, run general
ly to wrinkles and debility. and cave in abou
middle life. They are trussed and strapped
and bandagcd, and puttied and painted unit
they are chiefly artificial productions, composed
OF materials furnished by fancy y.goods dealer.
and apothccary shops. 1t is doubtful whether
the amount OF money expended on these ex
ternal appliances and in patent medicines in
tended to supply the deficiencies of nature, is
not equal to that spent in supplying bread and
butter to Uncle Sans hole family. Such are
the compensations OF nature. A life of toll
produces rigid muscle, good digestion, sound
steep, aud "eiiIoandcd bust, while fashion.
| able dissipation leads to sunken cheeks, hollow
eyes, lantern jaws and abdominal supporters
The recent passion for skating and other out.
door exercises is of great advantage and has a
tendency to improve the physique of the sex
But after all. no artificial exercises will devel.
op the physical powers so well as industrious
labor The women of the revolution exer.
| cised themselves over the spinning wheel and
the wash tub, and conformed to the sculptors
proportions accordingly; while their descend.
ants expend their surplus energies in the maz.
es OF the waltz, and amid the morbifc atmos.
phere of ball rooms, and hence have to depend
for symmetrical expansion on the application
OF cotton and brass wire. The domestic who
IS bronzed among the pots never requires such
extraneous aids, nor patronizes periodical pills,
and does not excite the criticism of Mrs.
Stowe.
As a suitable article to follow the above
Mrs Stowe affair, We copy from N. Y. ex-
change the "commercial' notice below. If Ia.
dies riA act so, and make market for arti
fcal juvenile bovines, We cannot help it. How
pretty the model calf would look on skates!
1t appears that new article Of commerce
which presents itself extensively in the shop
windows is an artificial calf, by which the
adorable sex supplement the defects of ma
ture, and present limb of just such proper.
tions as the dressmakcr chooses to devise -
Along with corsets and substitutes for what
Micawber called the maternal fount there now
appear in the shop windows artificial calves
that will make the most slender limbs swell
out into the proportions of those OF the Venus
de Medici 1t would really seem as if the |
"io"S'" oaShS'oT HiiSut lIllltdIe TySmaUOn,
who made himself an artificial woman when
dissatisfied with the sex, and patch up pretty
good imitation Of spouse. TO admire we'll
turned ankle and Il swelling calf, and find, at
ter all, that the proportions that excited admi
ration were the result of padding. is enough
to disenchant the most romantic swain, ana |
make him doubt the reality of any OF the
charms that allure his imagination and appear
to envelop the sex. However, if nature is re
miss and dispenses muscle, SO spalingly, art
must come to the rescue, and good model be
kept up anyhow. When a rosy tint is not i'm
parted 10 the complexion by the circulation of
youthful blood, the Bloom of Youth comes in
AS substitute. and when the voluptuous ro.
tundity OF outline which associates itself with
perfect female development is withheld, why
Art must come in and supply the deficiency
Hereafter. when amatory youths catch a |
glimpseof a neat ankle aad handsome leg, |
they must discount the intensity of their emo.
lions and consider how much Of the effect may
De owing to nature, and how much to artifi.
:ial stufling.