Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-08-24
From the Boston Congregationalist.
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
nm hr De. Die LeMls.

Now, ladies, I will preach you Just
a little sermon, about an inch long.
I don't often preach, but in this case
nothing but a sermon viii do.
Firstly. You are perfect idiots to 90
on in this wav. Your bodies are the
most beautiful of Gods creation. In
the continental galleries always saw
groups Of people gathered about mic
lures of women. 1t was not passion I;
the gazers were just as likely to be
women as men il was because of the
Wondrous beauty Of a womanis body.
Now stand with me at my office
window and see lady pass. There
goes one! Now isn't that n pretty
looking object? a big hump; three
big Jumps; a wilderness OF crimps
and frills; a hauling up Of the dress
here and there; an enormous, hide
Gus mass of false hair or bark piled
on the top Of the head, surmounted
by a little flat, Ornamented with bits
OF lace, birds tails, ETC., etc. The
shop 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
sentiments which cluster about q
home, 1 would ask, how is a man to
fall in love with such a piece OF CON-
pound, doubled and twisted, touch
me-not artificiality, as you see in that
wriggling curiosity? =?
Secondly. With that wasp waist,
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver
and vital organs 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 service, of work,
take such a partner? He must be
desperate, indeed, 20 unite himself for
life with such fettered, half-breath-
ing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack
of exercise leads TO bad health and
men wisely fear that instead OF 9
helpmate they would get an invalid
to take care of. This bad health in
you-just as in men makes the
mind as well as the body faddled
and effeminate. You have no power,
no magnetism 1 know you giggle
freely and use big adjectives, 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 50
assuring and attractive to men,
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,
Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect
Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie. When
your brothers were babies you called
them Dolby, Diekey and Johnny
but when they grow 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 nv grandmOthers put togther,
and her real name is Cdthdrine, and
though her brain is big enough to
conduct the 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 a life part
nership to such a silly goose? My
dear girls, you must, il you would gel
husbands, and decent ones, dress in
plain, neat, becoming garments, and
talk like sensible, earnest sisters.
You say that the most sensible men
are crazy after these butterflies Of
fashion. 1 beg your pardon, it is not
so. Occasionally q man of brilliant
success may marry a weak, silly
woman but to say, as 1 have heard
women say hnnufeu tluIes, tlla6 the
most sensible men choose women
without sense, is simply absurd
Nineteen times in twenty, sensible
men. choose sensible wives. grant
YOU that in company they are very
likely to chat and toy with these
overdressed and forward creatures
but they don't ask them to go to the
altar with them
FOurthly. Among the young men
in the matrimonial market, only 8
very small number are independently
rich, and in America such rarely
make good husbands. But the num-
Der Of those who are just beginning,
who are filed with a noble ambition,
who have a future, is very large
| These are worth having. But such
will not, dare not, ask you to join
them, while they see you so idle, silly
and so gorgeously attired. Let them
see that you are industrious, economi-
cal, with habits that secure health
and strength, that your life is real
that YOU would be willing to begin al
the beginning in life with the man
YOU would consent to marry, then
marriage will become the rule, and
not as now, the exception.