The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-12-16
Advice TO Young Ladies.

Now ladies, will preach to you just
little sermon. l don't often preach,
but in this case, nothing but sermon
will do.
Firstly-you are perfect idiots to go
on In this way. Your bodies are the
most beautiful of Gods creations. In
the Continental galleries, 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 womnn'S body.
Now, stand with me at my office win
dow, and see lady pass. There goes
one! now isn't that a pretty looking
object? A big hump, three big Jumps,
wilderness OF crimps and frlis,
hauling up of the dress here and there,
an enormous, hideous mass of false hair
or bark piled on the top of her head,
surmounted by little fiat, ornamented
with bits of lace, birds tails, &c. The
show windows tell us, all day long, of
the paddings, whalebones, and steel
springs which occupy most Of the space
within that outside rig.
In the name of the simple, sweet sem
tments which cluster about home, |
would ask, how is man to fall in love
with such piece of compound, doubled
and twisted tOnch me.not artificlality,
as you see in that wigglng curiosity?
Secondy-with that wasp waist,
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver,
and vital organs into one half their
natural size, and with that long tail
dragging on the ground, how can any
man of sense, who knows life is made
up of use, OF service, of work, how can
he take such a Iartner? He must be
desperate indeed to unite himself with
such fettered, halfbreathing orna.
ment.
Thirdly-Your bad dress and lack of
exercise, lead to bad health, and men
wisely fear that instead of a helpmate,
they would get an invalid to care for.
This bad health III you, just as in men,
makes the mind as well as the body,
fuddled and effemiuate. You have no
power, no magn etism / know you
giggle freely and use big adjectives,
such as "splendid,' awful" but then
this don't deceive us we see through
it all, You are superficial, affected,
silly; you have haye none of that WON.
anly strength and warmth which are
so assuring and attractive to man.
Why, you have become so childish
and weak minded that you refuse t.
wear decent names even, and insist
upon baby Halues. InStead of Helen,
Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect Mel
lie, Maggie and Lizzie. When your
brothers were babies you called them
dolby, Dicky and johnny, but when
they grew up to manhood, no more OF
that silly trash, if you please. But
know a woman of twenty five years
and she is as big as both of my grand
mothers put together, and her real
name Is Catharine, aud though her
brain is big enough to conduct fairs Of
State, she does nolhing hut giggle, GOV.
or up her face with her fan, and eXclaim
once in four minutes, "Don't, now, you
are real mean"
How can man propose life part
.nership to such silly goose? My dear
girls, you must, if you would get hu,.
bands, and decent Onts, dress in plair.
neat, becoming garments, asd talk Ii I
sensible. earnest sisters.
You say that the most sensible me-
are crazy after these butterflies of fash.
ion. l beg your pardon, il ~ not so.
Occasionally man of brilliant success
may marry one of these silly, weak
women but to say, as l have heard
women say hundred times, that the
most sensible men choose wcmen with
out sense, is simply absurd. Nineteer
times in twenty, sensible men choose
sensible women. l grant you that in
company they are very likely to chat
t nd toy with those overdressed and for.
ward creatures, but they don't ask
them to go to the altar with them.
Fourthly-among the young men in
the matrimonial market, only a very
small number are independently rich
, and in America such very rarely make
good husbands. But the number o
t those who are just beginning in life
who are filled with a noble ambition
who have future, is very large. Thest
are worth having. But such will not
they dare ROt-ask you to Join them
while they see you SO idle, silly, and Sc
gorgeously atiired. Let them see thai
f you are industrious, economical, Will
} habits that secure health and strength
that your life is honest and real, thai
you would be willing to begin at the
t beginning in life with the man yot
would consent to marry, then marriage
would become the rule, and not as now
tho pNcnntinD Dr Mo o,,;,