The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-10-13
NUMBER 81.
Advice to Yonng ladies.
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Now. ladies will preach you just a
little sermon, about an inch long.
don't often preach, but in tins case no
thing but sermon will do
Frstly You are perfect idiots to go
on In this way. Your bodies are the
most beautiful. in Gods creation. Ia the
continental galleries l always saw groups
of people gathered about the pictures of
women. 1t was not passion the gazers
were just as likely to be women as men /:
it was because of the wondrous beauty
of a woman's budy.
Now stand with me at my office win
dow and see a lady pass. There goes
one Now isn't that a pretty looking
object A big hump; three big humps
"a wilderness of crimps and frills; haul
ing up of the dress here and there an
enormous, hideous mass of false hair or
bark piled on the top Of the head, sur
mounted by little fiat, ornamented with
bits of lace, birds tails, ETC., etc The
shop windows tell US, all day long, of the
paddings, whalebOnes and steel springs
which occupy most of the space within
that outside ring.
timenis which cluster about home, [
would ask, how is man to fall in love
with such a piece of compound, doubled
aud twisted. touch h>me-not artitciality.
as you see in that wriggling curiosity
Secondly With that wasp waist,
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver and
vital organs, into ons>half their natural
size, and with that long tail dragging on
the ground, how can any man of sense,
who knows that life is made up of use, of
service, of work, take such partnerf
He must be desperate, indeed, to unite
himself for life with such fetiered, half
breathing ornament!
Thirdly. bad dress and lack of
exercise leads to bed health and men
wisely fear that instead of helpmate
they would get an invalid to take care of.
This bad health in you-just as in men
makes the mind as we'll as the body
fuddled and eifeminate. You have no
power, no magnetism know you gig
gle freely and use big adiectiyes, such as
''splendid, y lawful = but then this don't
deceive US; we see through it all. You
are superficialy. affected, sill you have
none of that womanly strength and
warmth which are assuring and at
tracrive TO men. Why, you have be-
come SO childish and weak minded tha.
you refuse to wear decent names even,
and insist upon baby names. Instead of
Helen, Margaret and Elizabeth, you af-
feet Nellie, Maggie aud Lizzie. When
your brothers were babies YOU called
them Dolby, Dickey and johnny but
when they grow up TO manhood, no more
of that silly nonsense if you please. But
/ know q woman of twenty-five years.
and she is as big as both of my eranG-
mothers put together, and her real name
is Catharine, and though her brain is big
enough to conduct the affairs of State,
she does nothing but gigg.e, cover up her
face with her fan, and eAclaim once in
four minutes, Don't now you are real
mean"
How can man propose life partner
ship to such silly goose My dear
girls, you must, If you would get hus-
bands, 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.
beg your pardon, il Is not 50. Occa-
sionally a man of success may marry a
weak, silly woman but to say, as have
heard wemen say hundred times, that
the most sensible men marry women with
out sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen
times in twenty, sensible men choose
sensible wives. grant you that in COM
pany they are very likely TO chat and toy
with these overdressed and forward crea>
tures but they don't ask them to 90 to
the altar with them.
Fourthly Among the young men in
the matrimonial market, only very small
number are independently rich. and in
America such rarely make good husbands.
But the number of those who are Just be-
ginning, who are filled with noble ans
bition, who have future, is very large.
These are worth having. But such, will
not, dare not, ask you to join them, while
they see you SO idle. silly, and soEgorgeous-
! ly attired. Let them see that you are
| industrious, economical, with habits that
secure health and strength, that your life
/ is real, that you would be willing to begin
at the beginning in life with the man you
would consent TO marry, then marriage
will become the rule, and not as now, the
exception.
A PARTY of respectable Chicago ladies'