The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-10-13
A LITTLE SERMON FOR YOUNG,
81. agga 1s8, LADIES. as 4aodaE a8fs
WILL 1T BE NEEDED?


If there is anything in the way of es
say, sermon, satire or threat, that cal
avail aught, to extirpate the follies1 o
fashionable costume, to which or womeI
are such5 slaVish subjects atthe expense
of health, comfort aud true conception
of the beautiful, we say let us hear it
The eminently, sensible DR.. Dio Lewis
preached the following sermon through
the Boston Gongregassonolist.n His words
are not a whit to strong. We wish pa
rents, brothers and husbands would com
bine all the forces of persuasion, infu
ence, ridicule and force, if required, to in
duce change n the dress and customs
of young women The abuse of them
selves in these thing, is shameful Sayl
DIR. Lewis. ~9 800 ,tse
Now, ladies, Will preach to you just &
little sermon, aboutan inch long. dom
often preach, but in this case none but :
sermon will do. 80 *4-s'' ss"@ 81 !.43 @H
First. You are perfect idiots to go or
In this way. Your bodies are the most
beautiful of Gods creations. In the Con
tinental galleries always saw groups Of
people gathered about the pictures oil
women. It is not passion, the gazers
were just as likely to be women as men
1t was because of the wondrous beauty oil
a Woman's body. 44A1
Now stand with me at my shop win
dow, and see lady pass.--There goes
onel now isn't that pretty looking OBJ
gject A big hump, three big Jumps, a
wilderness of crimps and frills, a hauling
up of the dress here and there, and enor-
nous, hideous mass of false hair or bark
piled on top her head, surmounted by d
little fat, ornanented by bits of lace,
birds tails, etc. The shop windows tell
us all day long, of the paddings, whale
bone and steel springs, which, occupy
most ofthe space Within that outside ring.
In the name of all the simple senti-
ments which cluster about home,
wonld ask, how is man going to fall in
love with such a piece of compound,
double and twisted touch me not artifci-
ality, as you see in that wiggling curiosl-
typ az aEn
Secondly. With that wasp waist
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver and
other vital organs into one half their nat.
ural 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, how can he take such
partner He must be desperate indeed
to unite himself for life with such fet.
tered, half breathing ornament.
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack Of
exercise lead to bad health, and men
wisely fear that instead of a help-mate
they would get an invalid to take care Of
This bad health in you, just as in men,
ma kes the mind as we'll as the body fud
dled and effeminate. ~ e8 9HH&8
Yo1 have no power no magnetism /
know you giggle freely and use big adjec-
tives, such as Splendid awful but.
then, this don't deceive us, we see through
1t all. You are superficial, affected, silly.
you have none of that womanly strength
and warmth which are so assuring and
attractive to man. Why you have become
so childish and weak minded that YOU
. refuse to wear decent names even, and in
sist upon baby names. Instead of Mar.
garet, Helen and Elizabeth, you affect
Lizzie, Nellie and Maggie. When your
brothers were babies, you called them
Bobby, Dickey and Johnny, but when
they grow up to manhood, no more of
that silly trash, if you please. But /
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big as both of my grandmothers put to-
getGer, who insists upon being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catherine, and
although her brain is big enough to con,
duct 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 mean
How can a man propose life partner
ship to such a silly goose My dear girls
you must, if you would get husbands, and
decent ones, dress in plain, neat, becom-
ing garments, and talk like sensible, ear
nest sisters - TE8 raz ID sgsa
You say that the most sensible men
are crazy after those butterflies of fash
ion. l beg your pardon, it is not so. Oc-
casionally, man of brilliant success may
marry q silly, weak woman, but 70 say, as
l have heard women say hundred times,
that the most sensible men choose women
without sense, is simply absurd Nine
teen times in twenty, sensible men choose
sensible women. | grant YOU that in
company they are likely to chat and toy
with those overdressed and forward crea-
lures but they don't ask them to 90 to
the altar with them.
Fourthly. Among the young men in
matrimonial market only a 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 filed
with noble ambition, who have flu
ture, Is very large. These are worth hay
ing. But such will not, dare not, ask you
to- join them; while they see you so idle
silly, and so gorgeously attired. Let us
see that you are industrious, economical
with habits that secure heath and strength
that yolr life. is earnest and real that rnr