Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-09-17

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welcome, and help you cheerfully as
you industriousIy help yourself.
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Tho Follies Of E'a asshion.
Severe STRUCTURES ON IHiah-HceIed
Boots, Hair Dyes, Naked
! Necis, &c.
From the broadway Magazine.
Another hurtful and ridiculous
fashion Is in the high-heeled boots,
which have again worked round
from our great-grandmothers. A
shGht heel is an advantage I'm
waking, but these nigh heels, VIII,
the excessively small surface aud the
sharply beveled sides. make walking
a service of pain and difficulty. Be
sides, they destroy the shape of the
leg, which Is something to be consid-
cred. They throw the weight for
ward and the strait OH the shin. and
consequently they diminish the back
muscle, the calf, and convert the fore
part into an ugly how. The-shape OF
our shoes and boots il in itself an
outrage against common sense; but
we women are not alone I'm this alb
surdity, nor are we to blame, SO that
as the papers deal with our own fol-
lies specially, we may be let Off with!
out any personal and peculiar reproof
therefor.
Butwbat can we say of the fashion
which dyes the hair, paints the
cheeks, blackens the eyelids with an
timony to make the orbit larger and
the lashes longer. or that expands the
pupils with belladonna, no matter no
what cost of complexion or future
eyesight7 What too, can we say of
the fashion that uncovers the arms
and neck In the evening, after hav-
Ing clothed them during the dav In
flannel or velvet, or in warm wadded
stuff5? Women threatened with
bronchitis or rheumatism sit all day
In warm room muiiled up to the
throat In thick material at night
they uncover below their shoulders.
and go out In the cold winter air with
just an opera cloak thrown over their
shivering skins. But this IL tho
fashion, and none of us dare disobey
1t; none of us dare go out I'm the
evening with dresses made after the
pattern OF our morning ones, or wear
In the morning low bo,lices and short
sleeves, to Mt least equalize the risk
and inure us to the evening attire
without damage.
There Is no intrinsic reason why
we should not be sitting In low bod
ices and short sleeves ut this moment,
though we will make IL ten O'Clock !;
but IL we were, we should be thought
mad or bad, or both, and not even
our staunchest friends would stand
by US. But wholly one thing or tho
other would be wiser system than
; the present, and would BE- productive
: of fewer catarrhs, bronchial allec-
tions and consumptions. All! IL is
a sad thought which springs up from
. that last wordl Ii we could only
3 see, as though removed from our own
} sphere would see, the criminal folly
: of sacrificing beautiful and valuable
: lives to the fashion which imposed
J naked necks as a rule for evening
D costume! Many a sweet young crea.
4 ture, who would have lived into hap.
4 ry old age as beloved wife and hap.
3 py mother, has gone to an early grave
4 because of that ball or party Al which
!, she caught cold from exposure. Bu
3 fashion so willed it; and neither
e mother nor daughter had strength tc
= resist her impalpable but absolute
p decree. .... ...r
We all obey her, young and oil,
v alike, those who should keep thei
e beauties sacred, and those who hay,
u none to show-the delicate who hav,
= to keep alive by art and care--th,
p lean who are too ugly for any one {,
!. find pleasure In the contemplation O
their ankles wrinkled and th,
4 gross; we all parade ourselves II
r evening society without more dis
$ guise than bit of gauze or lace cal
a give, and only very few OF us that
$ even when well on into the fiftles
r consider It quite superfiuous for any
!, thing to be gained by concealment
@ AS to the extent to which we Gu
G down bodices, that Is matter to,
i patent and too painful to be discussed
a 1t Is race among ns who shall wea
the dress lowest and show the lnrgcs
It expanse Of shoulders. And yet W
J. mean no harm; we mean only to b
|, fashionable. That is the worst of II
y The incest woman among us-pure
y high minded women, who woul
z rather die than be guilty of impropri
n ETY., II 1t appeared like an improprlc
J. ty to them, and whose very inne
n cence makes them unsuspicious {
W evil, yet become accustomed, as ever
e. one must, more or less, to an objec
d tionable fashion, aud follow It Il
Il pure simplicity of nature, as thin
g without meaning or effect. Also, til
k incest women among as are Jus
RS those who always follow-who hay
= not sufficient boldness of mind O
e manner to make q public protes
ID against anything Endorsed by tn
r. maj who are not touch
Q, ed by the evil OF n baleful custom
er and by whose own purity Is eliInir
IS ated the poison of mischievou
m fashion. They follow, and the
Ii moral support holsters up the ba
10 habit, and gives countenance to III
n bad followers thereof. But what ca
II we say when originality is still eer
re sured as unwomanly, and n publ
g protest, be II even Against evil, ID q,
le down as ''strong minded and unfen
m inine:n
IS -
r 1t Is claimed for the Arkansas H
u Springs that the waters will not ON
he destroy the taste for liquor, but vi
is clear from the system, I'm very sho
y time, all effects of previous dissip
tion. The waters of Sour Lake
IL Texas posscss the same virtups