Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-28
Advice to, Young Ladies.
BY DIR. pro LEWIS.

Now, stand with me at my office win
dow, and see a lady pass. There goes one
Now, isn't that pretty-looking object A
big hump, three big humps, q wilderness of
crimps and fiills, a hauling up of the dress
here and there an enormous hideous mass
of false hair or bark piled on top of her
head, suImounted by little flat, ornament
ed with bits Of lace, birds, tails, ETC., etc.
The shop windows tell us, all day long of
the paddings, whale -bonesand steel springs
which occupy most of the space within
that outside, rig. y "a
In the name of all the simple, sweet SEN
timents which cluster about home, |
would ask how is man to fall in love
with such q piece of compound, double
twisted, touch-me-not, artificialist, as you
see in that wriggling curiosityY
With that wasp waist, squeezing your
lungs, stomach, liver, and other vital or
gans, into one-half their natural size, and
with that long trail dragging on the
ground, how can any man of sense who
knows that life is made up of use, of SER
vice, of work, how can he take such a
partner? He must be desperate indeed to
unite himself for life with such fettered,
half-breathing ornament
Your bad dress and lack of exercise lead
to bad health, and men wisely fear that in
stead of helpmate they would get an in
valid to take care of This bad health ia
you, just as in men, makes the mind as well
as the body ftlddled and effeminate You
have no power, no magnetism | know
you giggle freely, and use big adiectives,
such as splendid, awful" but then this
don't deceive us; we can see through it all.
You are superficial, affected, silly; you
have none of that womanly strength and
warmth which are SO assuring and attract
i've to man. Why, you become so childish
and weak-minded that you refuse to wear
decent names even, and insist upon baby
names Instead of Helen, Margaret and
Elizabeth, you affect Nellie, Maggie and
Lizzie. When your brothers were babies
you called them Robbie Dicky and John
ny. But when they grow up. to manhood
no more of that silly trash, if you please
But know woman of twenty five years,
and she is as big as both of my grandmoth-
ers put together, who insists on being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catherine, and
although her brain is big enough to conduct
affairs of state, she does nothing but giggle
cover up her face with her fan, and eXclaim
once in four minutes, Don't now, you are
real meanp E5tERl
| How can a man propose a life partner
ship to such a silly goose? My dear girls,
you must, if you wish to get husbands, and
decent ones, dress in plain, neat becoming
garments, and talk like sensible, earnest
sisters
! You say that the most sensible men are
crazy after these butterflies of fashion. l
beg your pardon, it is not so. Occasion
ally man of brilliant success may marry a
| silly, weak woman, but, as | have heard
| women say a hundred times, that the most
! sensible men choose women without sense
is simply absurd. Nineteen times in
twenty, sensible men choose sensible wo-
men. | grant you that in company they
are likely to chat and toy with these over
dressed and forward creatures, but they
don't ask them to go to the altar with them.
! Among the young men in the matrimo-
NAL market, only very small number are
independently rich, and in America such
very rarely make good husbands. But the
number of those who are just beginning in
life, who are filled with a noble ambition
who have future, is very large. These
are worth having. But such will not ask
you to Join them while they see you SO
idle, silly, and so gorgeously attired. Let
them see that you are Industrious, economi-
cal, with habits that secure your health
and strength, that your life is earnest and
real, that you are willing to begin at the
beginning of life with the man you would
consent to marry, then marriage will be-
come the rule, and not, as now, the excep-
| ton.