Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-09-08
Injurious Habits OF the Young Girl Of
Fashion.

The INDECENT, inactive, vOluptuOus MODE
of living INDUCED In by the thoughtless
votary of fashion, IN addition to the alb
surd and destructive manner OF dressing,
contributes largely to the excavation OF
the individual and impairment OF her
general health. Late hours, and lounging
much Of the day In a warm feather bee,
in lily ventilated apartments, with heated
air, irregular Meals-hot stimulating food
and drink, excessive dissipation durip
the night, over dancing, exposure to the
cold and damp night air when thinly clsd
entertaining company at unreasonable
hours, mental condition varying from ex'
cessive excitement to extreme depression,
which such life invariably produces, all
tend to render such manner OF existence
ANYTHING bat desirable, yet it is miscalled
a life of pleasure, and longed for by those
who cannot attain it. The everlasting
complainings, the racking headaches,
neuralgia pains in every part of the body,
the poisoning iealousies, and the ten thou
sand other naIseless perplexities incident
to such life, render it one Of extreme
misery-not to be envied even by the
carewOrn daughter of toll, who earns her
daily bread by daily, illy-paid labor.
After such q life of folly, trivolity and
dissipation during her early years, should
abe survive their immediate results, and
remain unmarried, in her declining age
she will reap harvest from the seed sown
in her youthful days and nights. Peevish,
irritable, complaining, health sacrificed,
and to happiness stranger, none to love,
because her state of mind and phys
condition will not be such as to excite
that tender emotion in any one, none TO
svmnathiZe with her in her wrctched
condition, because all will recognize 1t as
the inevitable fruits of carly profiigacy,
pride and selfshness; and, finally, at vari-
ance with herself and the world, she will
sink into the grave, unwept, unhonored
and unsung," and the world will feel
that it has lost but little by her
demise. Should some man be SO
unfortunate as to become dazzled by
her Vaccinations and unite his destiny
with hers, ii possessed of the intelligence
and sensibilities of man. he would soon
perceive that he had got for q wife an
empty sham, q toy, gew gaw, AND
worse, q thing neither ornamental nor
useful, an incumbrance, whining, COM
planning, self-made invalid, miserable
malcontent, perpetual annoyance; with
out intelligence or moral capacity TO com.
pensate for destroyed health, and mental
irritability with oil the sweetness Oh tenn
per, gentleness, kindness, amisbility
and loneliness characteristic OF the
cultivated and refined of her sex,
sacrificed upon the affairs Of pride, selfish
ness and fashion. Can such being
expect or even hope to retain the
affection, or even the respect, OF man
of sense and culture, however deep an
impression she might have made upon
his heart, by her blandlshments and show
before time had divulged the grand de.
ception of which he has been made the
victimg He soon becomes dissatisfied
with his home, because he finds nothing
there to make it attractive. She in whom
he expected to find centered ell the en-
dearments that make life happy within
the sacred precincts Of home, has become
an objec. Of disgust instead OF alteration,
and all marriage obligations, and legal re-
straints that theingenuity Of man has
ever devised are not strong enough To
hold him in compsnionship with her, by
whom he has been basely deceived and
whose perverseness and cold selfishness
have rendered her an object of adherence
and contempt-NAdteal Independent.