, 1867-11-01
What May be Done in the Country

have done marveling that city women wall
so little. Gradually they will cease altogether
unless the dress mania "lets up" DirectIy
AFTER breakfast healthy person desires out Of
door air; bat at that time, in the city. a lady
has on her "breakfast robe" SO called: and ~
order TO go presentably out, she imaqines !,
necessary to go to her room and remodel her,
self entirely. The robe must be EXCHANGED 6,r
walking Dress the slippers mast be discarded
Tor boots; these boots have about sir dozsn
outons-the button fastener must be found 10
secure them TO the ankle. The white under.
SKIRT must be exchanged for a BalmoraI, 20
match the outer skirt. The gloyss,-beIt and
collar which accompany the sSfS must be
hunted up. The hair must be re-arrauged for
must be ound sad t6e TsI; en 81 fhaP aPaThSq
Il any lady's vitality aud temper are not entirely
exhausted, she may be able 10 walk arouad one
block without creeping into au omnibus or or.
dering carriage.
Now, here in the country, AL this ceremony
is dispensed with. II woman has common
sense, she will strike for her freedom her,
what vassalage soeves she may feel constrained
70 undergo on city payments. With a sun.um.
oreliS ana thick shoes, she may go bonnetless.
IN her morning Calico all day; and never change
her apparel from sunrise to sunset unless she
meets with some accident. The blessed. dewv
lIesn nours oil early morning may be devoted to
something else than the looking glass; and, if
she IS anything but stick, she will be better
and happier, and healthier for this untram,
meled enjoyment of them. Compared to the
stun, artificial, slow promenaaing of a CITY
pavement, it is woman's heaven.
Here she may go over fences, if she have n
gut Tor gymnastics, without instruction: and
the clumSer she is, the more fun is TO be cot
out OF 1t. As to clothes-haven't said that
they were of no account? Then there are hills
to be climbed, and bills to be chased down, and
bitches and brooks to cross, and snakes. and
cows with vicious facial expression. to extem-
porize shrill concert at a very short notice.
And OBJ, my dear girls, with what railroad
velocity does lore travel in the country the
city, for hunting ground, is a fool to il.
Nhen man has nothing else to do, be makes
love as naturally as a duck eoes into water.
and yon might idsso bere in the country with
half the pains you usually take when there. |
Now, IN the city, you-Mara-stand no chance |
At ALI there are too many other Ma.as engaged |
in the same business. And then, if YOU sue.
ceed in securing his attention there, your ma,
ma, or papa, or your brother, or some pryinc
poke OF an aunt, or uncle is always in the
parlor, if be calls; but, here, you may "spear"
your hsh at any moment. There is the piazza.
where the hint is dropped-not to him. of
course, (you are not green as that) but af
the grove, the hill or the wood,
or the lake where you Maria, always go at such
, time You are perfectly aud properly nas
onished," when, alterward, you fud him
hereby accident Then, the little coouetry
If lingering on the fences, because he is help.
ng you over, and because your boots fit SO
nicely Then the flower of the leaves. which
'ou "cant really put in your hair without
ooking glass; aud which he kindly volunteers
o secure for you. Then the terrors you undergo
t frogs and things, which necessitate his manly
Then, if he chance to sleep late in the morning,
fter such day OF arduous devotion, what is TO
Under your borrowing some body's baby from
IS nurse and siroling directly under the win
ow where you hadn't the slightest idea he
lept, and singing the dear little "titsy -witsy" a
he whole of Mother Goose, from beginning to I
nd, till you accomplish the desired result? i
ow, you know that's the way you do; and if f
ou had sixty more freckes shan you have, and
our shoulder blades were much more promi- I
ent, and your nose sharper, and your waist
luarer, he would still think you an angel, be- '
Ause you can keep at him all the time aud fol- a
wv him cunningly up, without any competition
orth speaking Of; aud, moreover, because ev- v
rything in nature as well as you-birds, beasts, v
sh, and fowl-are also in the wooing line. Oh fl
lark my words girls: the city, as hunting d
round, is fool to the country
FANNY Firm. c