Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-11-30
Advice 10 Young women.

llitle article, as IT IS OF no interest 10
them.
About week ago q young women OF
twenty came TO me about her health,
ard, after the professional conversation
was finished. We felIlnto pleasant chat.
She was delightfully."- frank. and said,
while we were discussing matrimony:
Il wish was little
That is too bad; had been admir-
ing your grand queenly proportions ever
since you came in, aud now you spoil it
all 10y showing that you are not crate
full for such noble gifts"
j can't help il; | wish | didn't weigh
more than eighty pounds, and wasn't
more than four and half feet high.
Well, | am shocked; dc tell me what
makes you wish So
TO be frank with you, the reason is
jlst this: Men are so fond of saying.
MY lille wife,
| laughed, of course, thinking il was
intended for bright speech; but her
flushed face insured me that instead she
was speaking from the bottom of her
heart.
Go on, said | tell your thoughts
MY thoughts are just these. and |
believe they are the thoughts Of all un
married. manageable women. | long
for nothing as do TO bury all my uncel
tanlies and anxieiies 10 the love Of hus
band! But | fear there is nothing left
for me but to be sneered at as an old
maid all my life. So while might 9th
erwise be grateful for what you call my
queenly proportions, | can only wish |
was one of the little women whom men
seem to fancy.
You are perpIexed and grievcd that
so many of us hold back, and leave you
to die old maids. Let me whisper the
secret: We are afraid of you. And now
| propose that we let my friend Bob ex
plain. He is n splendid fellow, and dy-
ing to have home of his own; but he
dare not venture. He declared in my
par!or the other day that he would pre-
fer ten years of happy married life to
fifty years of this miserable nothing and
nowhere. But, said he:
Il am banker. Ny salary is So 900
| can't marry scrub. | must mar
nv wife with manners. Ny mother
and sister would break their hearts if my
choice were below their style. Now tell
me how, with such wife, could get
through on $4,000 year? Why, her
dress alone would cost half of it. Oh,
no; unless first make up my mind to
rob the banks, | couldn't think of mat
rimony. If had SIS 900 year l would
venture; but with only $3,000P
My lady friends think | am so much
in love with the - club that | have
no time for them; and one of them SAID
to ne the other day:
why, Bob, what YOU spend in that
miseratls club would support wife east
~
1t wouldn't pay for her bonnets,' l
repliel.
Now, ladies, Bob is getting little ex
travagant, and Wen let him retire; and
will preach you little sermon about
an inch loug
You are peri CT idiots Ia O. on in this
way. Your bodies are the most bra dti
iul Of Gods creation
Now stand With me and see a lady
pass.
Look at that wasp waist, squeezing
her lungs stomach, liver, and other vital
organs into one half their natural size;
how can any man of sense, who knows
that life is made up of use, of service, of
work-how can he take such a partne" |?
Your bad dress and lack of exercise
lend to lad health, aud men wisely fear
that they would get an invalid to take
care Of. THIS bad health injuries the
mind as vel as the body You have no
power, no magnetism! You are super
fetal. affected, silly You have no woman
iy strength and warmth.
Why. you have become so childish
and weak. minded, that you refuse to
wear decent names even, and insist upon
baby names. Instead of Helen, Mar
garet and Elizabeth, you affect Nellie,
Maggie and Lizzie. When your broth
ers were babies. YOU called them Bobby,
Dickey and Johnny, but when the grew
up to manhood, no more Of that silly
trash, if you please. Bat | know a
woman OF twenty fvs years. and she is
as big as both my grandmothers Pot to
gelher, who insisted upon being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catherine;
and although Der brain is big enough to
conduct affairs of state, che does moth
ing but giggle, cover up her face with
her fan. and exclaim, once in four min
utes, Don't now, you are real mean
How can a man propose a life part,
nership to such silly goose? My dear
girls, you must. if you would, get bus
bands and decent ones, dress in plain.
neat and becoming garments, and talk
like sensible, earnest sisters.
You say that the most sensible men
are crazy after those butterflies of fashion.
| beg your pardon, as it not so. Occa
sionally man of brilliant sucress may
marry silly woman. but TO say, as |
have heard woman say hundred times,
that the most sensible men choose won
en- without sense, is simply absurd
Nineteen times in twenty sensible men
choose sensible women. | grant You
that in company they are very likely to
chat and toy with those overaressed and
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