Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-10-07
From the Rutland Herald,
A Few Words to the Girls.

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advice, for that S thing | don't think
much of, unless it is asked for. l am
only going to laugh at you little, and
pity you too for your patient endurance
in following so implicitly the outlandish
fashions of the day.
| would first make mention of your
beautiful heads, Supposed to be so
though the real head is seldom, if ever
seem. Now your fashions for dressing
your hair is anything but becoming to
you, and renders the expression of your
features anything but lovely. There is
no symmetry or beauty about it. 1t makes
you look top heavy, and, upon the whole,
altogether disagreeable. And, besides it
is doing you great injury. No head
is capable clear thinking, that is oblig-
ed to carry such weight upon it. You
have dull headache nearly all of the
time, which you are becoming so used to
that it is almost seco nd nature to you,
and renders you dull and listless.
And another thing, you are fast de-
stroying what little hair you have by
keeping it continually covered with that
outrageous wigwam which you carry
about, thus excluding it from the air,
which is so necessary to its growth and
health.
Why my dear girls, (and the younger
portion of married ladies, if you would
take one half the pains to furnish and
adorn the inside of your head that you
do the outside, the world would get ac-
quainted with you sooner, and respect
you more The head is the king of the
body. Then let us store it with useful
knowledge. that it may rightly WELD its
sceptre, and that when it openes its mouth
words of wisdom and usefulness may
drop, like pearls, from its tongue, instead
of the sickly, hollow nothings of the
day, which is ever to be found in fash
ionable society.
Then, again, your waists, which God
never intended you should taper.
Why will you squeeze yourselves into
corsets, and make artificial deformit les
of yourselves?
You do not look as well, girted down
to the little end of nothing you do not
feel as well you will not live as long
and while you do live, you will live in
misery.
And, then, what shoes heels two OF
three inches high, soles very narrow,
and then laced so high and SO tight that
it completely fetters the foot.
No wonder that you don't walk grace
fully, and no wonder walking is out Of
fashion among the ladies.
The doctors will not advise you upon
the subject of healthy dressing. Not
they! If they did, and you should fol.
low it, their practice would soon run
low.
| have sometimes thought that the doc.
tors and the founders of flshion were in
league with each other. One makes the
fashions, and the money that come of it,
and the other doctors the poor victims
of those killing fashions, which they
say, is money making business.
Over one-thir1 of your time, girls, is
spent in sleep, and good share Of the
remaining two-thirds is spent in keeping
up your wardrobes in the latest style,
and in elaborate dressing before your
mirrors and / cnnnot see where the
time is coming from in which to improve
your minds; and l fear 1 shall see no
minds to improveif if things 60 on in this
way much longer.
You are dwarfing your intellects, and
committing slow suicide, not SO very
slow either, you are destroying your beau
tiful compilations, and the star-like spar
kle of your eyes. Borrowed bloom will
not help the matter, and if you borrow
once nature will let 60, and you may Dor.
row the rest of your days until your nat
ural complexion is the color of tan leath.
er. Tea and coffee will not help your
case. Drink water and bathe in it of.
ten if you would have your complexion
vie with the roses and lilies.
The vital forces of your system is so
cramped beneath that corset of yours,
that they cannot half perform their of.
fee. Your little heart admonished you,
time and again by its irregular beating,
that your life rs in danger. Your lungs
try to expand to catch the pure air Of
heaven, but there is no room.
0, my dear girls, if you wish to beau
tify the outer form, and make yourselves
irresistably lovely. you must begin very
soon your work of internal improve
ment. Yours TRULY.
BoIsTERoUs PREACHING.-A celebra-
ted divine who was remarkable, in the
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