The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1868-06-18

! Ns sNNt W NNlhittih w tht WlAtihN VI di
indulgout Fashionable mother, hav,
almost committed self murder,
What is the standard Of beauty IN
this our day2 Srnal. waists, smal
feet
| What beauty Nut tho show
Of shapcly lnNhso AMI features. Not
! Those are hut flowers ...
| That have their dated hours,
IT, hptlhr their momcnmry swccts, thou E'i
| 'lIs the stainless suul within
That outshues the ttivst skin.
All sensible men and women pre-
| fer the latter definition OF beauty t.
| the former. External beauty mus
die. Internal beauty, such as spring.
from a staiulcss soul, is immortal, aud
can never die.
All physical training should have
an eye to the pcrpetuity of health
and life; but in our day uine cases
out of ten are trained to make pro
seutablo appearance, or as mother
said to me some time since, "No Que
knows how hard l have labored to
make my daughter attractive in So
ciety" Attractive how? By crush.
ing in her ribs, confniug the lungs,
squeezing the feet. reducing her hand
from the size of No. six to four. No
wonder that the poor victim on the
altar Of physical fashion at last ox-
claimed, Mother, l can't staud it;
would rather go to the country and
marry cousin Jake, than 20 through
all this harvesting business in order
to catch a rich husband" This idea
Of man catching among American
mothers has become almost mania;
aud just as soon as a daughter is horn
unto them, they become anxious
about her future marriage. The
sequence Ia, that they are brought
up with the idea that. their mothers
want them to marry and do we'll!
What does that mean2 Marry a rich
man, splendid house, grand oquipage,
&c. : Many mothers. in
order to accomplish this, spend their
all, aud sometimes more than their
all, in educating the fingers and toes
of their dear daughters, dress them
up in the latest style, teach them to
stand thus, sing aud walk thus, and
50 then set them up in their parlors.
place them in striking attitudes on
the public steps, on a summer eve, or
exhibit them ou the public walks or
streets just as merchants and auc.
tioneers do their toys aud goods, hay.
ing a placard on them "for sale"
Such mothers arc curse to their
sex, and their curse is generally pro.
ductiyc of sorrow and shame to their
unfortunate daughters. Such daugh
tcrs are not prepared to look well to
the ways OF their households. They
are not prepared to train their of
shriug physically, and have in the
main to deny themselves that most
precious of all other blessings con
terred upon the mother. thator nurs
ing her own child Ii must 80 to
the hireling, aud she almost forget
her sucking child, This is not all.
One by one the masks aud assumed
charms begin to disappear aud that
grand house becomes worse than
cursed aud empty Eden. Children
grow up around her; who cares for
them but hired nurses, until they
become more the mother than she?
This may seem strange to many Of
you, but it is nevertheless true.
Hired nurses, in this nation, are in
demand, because the physical train
ing Of many Of our girls unit them
FOR the duties of the mother Other
breasts than hers must supply life.
Is il any wonder that one of oarth's
great men exclaimed in his dying
hour, 81 would have been better
man had my mother nursed me in.
stead ofa hireling.' n0l
Tho style Of raising children has
become very fashionable of late, and
is rapidly increasing in our midst.
Do you ask the cause of this increase?
I answer, the fearful tendency to
idleness among American females.
These unnatural mothers want more
time for the opera, the theator, and
the ball; for dress, fashion aud tat
Ting visitation, There is no siyht
under heaven so revolving or unkind
as that of mother who could nurse
and train her child, turning it over to
the hireling. A celebrated divine
says: "The baseness Of the banishing
mother is equal to her cruelty. The
creature on whom she inAiets suffer
ing, aud probably death, is wholly
helpless. Before sucha babe can be
banished from its mother, all must
be base. Look at its little hand, not
SO big as tho top of your thumb-its
fingers the size of slraws; hear its
voice, smaller than the softest sounds
OF the lutte; see it turning from the
means of life TO the limpid and pure
stores formed by nature; stand by
while its little mouth is taken from
thence and placed at the nauseating
hired mess, and ask, if you dare,
why is it that American boys aud
girls are becoming so itresoluto and
efeminate? Hired nurses are the
fruitful mothers Of female idleness.
May | not conclude this portion of
my subject by quoting the old adagc,
"No breast, no motherw 4 i.HI
How often our city bellies smile at
the robust forms and the ways of
their uusopnisticatcd country cous,
ins, Yet tho time win come when
they would give worlds for physical
fitness for married life. ~ i'st
swhat happiness The country maid attends
In cheerful ihhOrWhie each day tpeuds;
SheBmieiuly receives what heaven hath sent
Aud riclrn poverty, enjoys content
She never nels-the splean's inaag ned pains
no mslancholy ttagnates ~ her Yeins,
She never ioseslne IN thoughtess ease
Nor on tfeyehrt eough inyites dsssse. 4
Her llomespun dress IN simple neainess lies !
And t1r no grand equipage does che sigh.
No midnight masquerade her beauty wears \
Andhealth, oot paint,the fading bloom repEirs.Y !
The latter class referred to obtains
through well directed labor good !
health, good looks, .ruddy cheeks, |