The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-03-26
-ssf1 From the Ohio State Journal isal
Plain Talk by a Woman to Wo-
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MURDER BY INDIRECTIoN. .

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have been daily growing more
astonished al the rediness of woman
otherwise sufficiently strong minded
to submit to the tyranical DEGREES of
fashion,, and, asking myself ssW here
will all this end p lam puzzled and
despondent. -.s-t1 f.,s-r ..f.
lave our women gone "stark-
staring mad ?" Do they mean to
make suicide respectable,I and IN
fanticide the ,fashion?p Z, It would
| seem so from their persistent, cling
ing to a style of dress calculated to
produce these results. Are our
girls to study Anatomy and physiol-'
ogy only to repeat, parrot.like
scientific phrases, and long, hard
names, and never be taught. that
words means something, and that
they are the exponents of mighty
principles that should govern their
every day life? Why, 1 have heard
Misses Of fifteen years fuently- reei-
ting page after page, thoroughly
conversent with the structures of the
human frame who could explain
the processes of Indigestion, and who
at the same time, were SO tightly
compressed in an abeminable wo-
man killing corset, that liver, heart
and lungs were crowed together,
dyspepsia was even then running
riot, and a waist, intended by Ma
ture to be big enough to fulfil its
mission was reduced in such wasp
like proportions that the necessity
of hopping the fair creatures was
easily seen. ....z s.. .sflas:t 5
Now, let a girl of fifteen lace her
self up in this unnatural, and, con-
sequently. ridiculous STYLE until her
vital organs are diseased and defor-
med, as they surely will be, if she
continus the dwartting process long
enough. Let her turn her head out
of doors in the winter, with no pro-
lection from the frosty air and lurk-
ing neuralgia, but bit Of illusion
and handful of roses pinned to
her bump Of self-esteen. Let her
wrap the upper part other body in
furs and heavy clothes, until it is
hot and reeking, while her limbs are
protected by one thinness of muslin
and her feet encased in paper-seied
CATERS. Let her do this for q few
years, until she finds some man who
wants a wife, and who despairing of
finding among all his acquaintances
one more sensible, marries her, and
perpetuates in his ofsprlngs the fol-
ly of their parents. .ass.5a +:
Need we wonder that dyspepsia,
heart disease, female Weaknesses,
neuralgia, and host of other, ills,
are making frightful inroads upon
our women? That out of a thou
sand, one cannot find five perfectly
sound healthy women2 That puny
scrofulous child1 en-, born only to
fall early victims to disease and
death, abound. in our cities, and
may be found now eyenin the couu-
try. ii. zf- ss-.q z.a.I.f zsss
Only think Of it. Is it not sad
that the blight should have reached
the country where God has left such
pre- ciousr teachers as the birds and
flowers, and where amidst Natures
loyal subjects, woman has Jess aex4
cuse than her city sisters who have
not so many Of. Gods natural help
ers to guide them Alright p Sf,4: :.
W bat is to be done !? Clearly to
educate woman for hersa duties.
Teach her to live for something
better than to outshine her neigh
bors, and murder her children.
What should we think of the me-
chanie who would undertake to
| build a house, with no. plan before
him, and totally ignorant of the
work he had undertaken p We
| should vote him bloekhead. And
yet, woman will bring into the
! world an immortal soul, knowing
and caring nothing about the laws
that govern the health. both ply
steal and spiritual, Of the helpless
being committed to her charge. all
speak only what know. what
| many besides myself can testify to,
either from experience or observa-
ton, and I should hold myself,
guilty did 1 not lift up my voice
against such prevailing, and coun-
tenaneed evils. 80 Eat., - lff9l2,:5
I have seen these little ones
brought into the. world by young
and ignorant mothers, their only
hope of life resting in the most ju-
dieious management. so trotted, and
tossed, SO patted and rocked, that,
in very anguish of spirit, the poor
babes cried for rest, ,-only to be. let
alone. Bat no-nurses and grand
mammas insisted. that something
must;be wrong with the, child" and
mammas diligently administered
Group syrup, milk, soothing syrup,
catnip tea, trotting, aconite. and
finally cupping and calomel, until
exhausted nature at length succom-
bed, and the babies were worried to
sleep to the music of, the nurses
voice m,,rmering Rock me to sleep
Mother" with the full power of a
very healthy pair of lungs. ~ -
Now which should occasion the
greater surprise; that the child
should worry through baby hood
into precocious or stunted youth ?
And yet, if the child dies, it was
Gods will and we must submit"
I hold that God hadn't anything to
do with the matter and to charge
Him with its death is blasphemy.
Children ARE reared }afor the
slaaghterrpens by early and SYSTEM
attic training, and the result is the
natural cOnseuueuce of wilifnl al. TO-