Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-29
A Few words to- the Girls.

Now, girls, am not going to give you
advise, for that is thing L don't think
much of, unless it is asked for. I am
only going to laugh at you a little, and
pity you too, for your patient endurance
in following so implicitly the outlandish
fashions of the day.
would first make mention of your
beautiful heads, (supposed to be so,
though the real head is seldom, if ever
seem. Now your fashions for dressing
your hair is anything but becoming to
you, and renders the expression of your
features anything but lovely. There is
no symmetry or beauty aboutit. 1t makes
you look top heavy, and, upon the whole,
altogether disagreeable. And, besides it
is doing You great injury. No head il
capable Of clear thinking, that is obliged
to carry such a weight upon it. You
have dull headache nearly all the time,
which you are becoming so used to, that
it is almost second nature to you, and rem
ders you dull and listless.
And another thing, you are fast de-
stroying what little hair you have by
keeping it continually covered with that
outrageous wigwam which you carry
about, thus excluding it from the air,
which il 20 necessary to its growth and
health.
Why, my dear girls, land the younger
portion of married ladies too,) if you
would take one half the pains to furnish
and adorn the inside of your heads that
You do the outside, the world would get
acquainted with you sooner, and respect
you more. The head is the king of the
body. Then let us store it with useful
knowledge, that it may rightly WELD its
soeptre, and that when it opens its mouth
words of wisdom and usefulness may
drop, like pearls, from it's tongue, instead
of the sickly hollow nothings of the day,
which IL ever to be found in fashionable
sociaty
Then, again, your waists, which God
never intended should taper.
Why will you squeeze yourselves into
corsets, and make artificial deformities of
yourselves'
You do not look as well, girted down
to the little end of nothing; you do not
feel as well; you will not live as long
aud while you do live, you will live in
misery.
And then, what shoes heels two OF
three inches high, soles very narrow, and
then laced 80 high and so tight that il
completely letters the foot.
No wonder that you don't walk grace
fully, and no wonder that walking is ou'
of fashion among the ladies.
The doctors will not advise you upor
the subject of healthy dressing. No
they If they did, and you should follow
it, their practice would soon run low.
have sometimes thought that the doc
tors aud the founders of fashion were i,
league with each other. One makes tn
fashions, and the money that comes of il
and the other doctors the poor victims c
those killing fashions, which they say,
money-making business.
Over one-third of your time, girls,
spent in sleep, and good share of til
remaining two-thiria is spent in keepin
up your wardrobes in the latest style, an
in elaborto dressing before your mirrors
and I cannot see where the time is con
ing from in which to improve your minds
and l fear I shall see no minds to improv
in few years, if things go on in this wa
much longer.
You are dwarfing your intellects, an
committing slow suicide, not so very slov
either, you are destroying your beautifr
compilations, and the star-like sparkle {
your eyes. Borrowed bloom will not hel
the matter, and if you borrow once natur
will let go, and you may borrow the re:
of your days until your natural complies
ion is the color of tan leather. Tea an
coffee will not help. your case. Drin
water and battle in it often if you woul
have your complexion vie with the rose
and lilies.
The vital forces of your system is
cramped beneath that corset of your
that they cannot half perform their ofic
Your little heart admonished you, tin
aud again by its irregular beating, th,
your life is in danger. Your lungs try
expand to catch the pure air of HEAVIER
but their il no room.
o, my dear girls, if you wish to beaut
fly the outer form, and make yourselvt
irresistably lovely, you must begin yer
soon your work of internal improvement
YOURS TRULY.