Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-11-04
Advice to Young Ladies.

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s'm Now, stand with me at my office WIN
dow, and see lady pass. There goes one
Now, isn't that pretty-looking object A
o big hump, three big Jumps, a wilderness of
crimps and frills, a hauling up of the dress
here and there, an enormous, hideOus mass
of false hair or bark piled on top of her
head surmounted by little flat, ornament
ed with bits of lace birds, tails, ETC., etc.
The shop windows tell us, all day long, of
the paddings, whale bones and steel springs
(which occupy most of the space within
that outside rig.
In the name of all the simple, sweet SEN
g timents which cluster about a home, /
would ask, how is a man to fall in love
with such a piece of compound, double
twisted, touch-me not artificialist, as you
see in that wriggling curiosity?
With that wasp waist, squeezing your
I lungs, stomach, liver and other vital or
gans, into one-half their natural size, and
with that long trail dragging on the
ground, how can any man of sense who
knows that life is made up of use of SER
. vice, of work, how can he take such a
partner? He must be desperate indeed to
unite himself for life with such fettered
half-breathing ornament.
Your bad dress and lack of exercise lead
to bad health, and men wisely fear that in
stead of a helpmate they would get an in
z valid to take care of. This bad health in
you, Just as in men, makes the mind as well
as the body fuddled and effeminate. You
have no power, no magnetism! | know
you giggle freely, and use big adjectives,
such as "splendid," "awful," but then this
don't deceive us; we can see through it all.
You are superficial, affected, silly; you
have none of that womanly strength and
warmth which are so assuring and attract
i've to man. Why, you become SO childish
? and weak-minded that you refuse to wear
decent names even, and insist upon baby
: names. Instead of Helen, Margaret and
Elizabeth, you affect Nellie, Maggie and
Lizzie. When your brothers were babies
you called them Robbie, Dicky and John
ny. But when they grow up to manhood
no more of that silly trash, if you please.
But Iknow woman of twenty five years,
and she is as big as both of my grandmoth-
ers put together, who insists on being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catherine, and
although her brainis big enough to conduct
q affairs of state, she does nothing but giggle,
cover up her face with her fan, and exclaim
n once in four minutes, Don't now, you are
real mean" alaItss
How can a man propose a life partner
AZ ship to such "a silly goose? My dear girls,
you must, if you wish to get husbands, and
decent ones dress in plain, neat, becoming
'ssgarments, and talk like sensible, earnest
sisters
You say that the most sensible men are
crazy after these butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon, it is not so. Occasion
ally man of brilliant success may marry a
81 silly, weak woman but, as l have heard
women say hundred times, that the most
se1ssible men nschoose women without sense
is simply absurd. Nineteen times in
twenty, sensible men choose sensible wo-
men. grant you that in company they
are likely to chat and toy with these over
dressed and forward creatures but they
don't ask them to go to the altar with them.
Among the young men in the matrimo-
3 NAL market, only 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 filled with a noble ambition,
who have a future, is very large. These
are worth having. But such will not ask
you to join them while they see you so
idle, silly, and so gorgeously attired. Let
sthemlsee that you are industrious, economi-
cal, with habits that secure your health
and strength, that your life is earnest and
real, that you are willing to begin at the
d beginning of life with the man you would
consent to marry, then marriage will be-
come the rule, and not, as now, the eXcep-
ton