The Republican journal., 1870-10-06
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
TALK BY DIR. DO LEWIS.

Now, ladies, will preach you Just a little
sermon, about an inch long. | don't often
preach, but in this ease nothing but sermon
Will do
Firstly You are perfect idiots to go on in
this way Your bodies are the most beauti-
lul Of Gods creation. In the continental
galleries | always saw groups Of people
gathered about pictures OF women. 1t was
not passion; the gazers were Just as likely
to be women as men; ii was because Of the
wondrous beauty Of Il woman's body.
Now stand with me at my office window
and see a lady pass. There goes one Now
isn't that pretty looking object? A big
hump three big Jumps; Il wilderness of
here and there, an enormous. hideous mass
Of false hair or bark piled on the top of the
head, surmounted by little fat, ornament
ed 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 ring
In the name of the simple, sweet senti-
ments which cluster about a home, would
ask, how is a man to tall in love with such a
| piece Of compound. doubled and twisted
ltouch-me-not artiticiality, as you see in that
Wrg9ling curiosity?
Secondly. With that wasp-waist, sqeezing
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 Il partner? lie must be desperate in
deed, to unite himself for life with such a
| lettered, halt-breathng ornament
| Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack of ex-
| ercise leads to bad health; and men wisely
fear that instead Of helpmate they would
get an invalid to take care Of. This bad health
IN you-lust AS in men-makes the mind as
the body taddled and etfeminate You have
no power. no magnetism. | know you
giggle freely and use big ndectives, such as
'splendd," ''awiul;" ont then this don't
deceive us; we see through it all You are
superticial affected, silly; you have none of
that Womanly strength and warmth which
arc so assuring and attractive to men. Why,
you have become 50 childish and weak mind
ed 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,
Dlcky and Jony; but when they grow up
to manhood, no more OF that silly trash, if
You please. But know 4 woman of twenty
five years, and She is rs big as both of my
@randmothcrs put together, and her real
name is Catharne, and though her brain is
big enough to conduct the affairs of State
she does nothing but gigglo, cover up her
face with her fan, and eNclaim once in four
minutes, 'Don't now, you are real mean"
How can man propose a life partnership
to such 7 silly goose My dear girls, you
must, il You would get husbands, and decent
| ones, dress in plain, neat, becoming gar
mcntS and talk like sensible earnest sisters
| You say that the most sensible men are
clazy after these butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon, it is not 50. Occasionally
Il man Of brilliant success may marry weak
silly woman; but to say, as have heard
woman say hundred times, that the most
sensible men choose women without sense,
is simply absurd Nineteen times in twenty,
sensible men choose sensible wives. l grant
You that in company they are very likely to
chat and toy with these over,lrcSsed and for
ward creatures; but they don't ask them to
90 to the altar with them.
Fourthly. Among the young men in the
matrlm onlal market, only Il very small num-
Der are Independently rich, and iii America
such rarely make good husbands. But the
number OF those who are Just beginning, who
are filled with noble ambition. who have a
future, is very large. These are worth hay
mo But such will not, dare not, ask YOU 10
Join them, while they see you so idle, silly,
and 50 gorgeously attircd Let them see
| that YOU are Industrious, economical, with
habits that secure health and strength, that
your lite is real, that You would be willing to
| begin at the beginning in life with the man
| you would consent to marry, then marriage
will become the rule, and not as now, the
| exception