Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-16
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BREEsK, Secretary of State.
ADVICE TO YOUNG WOMEN.

BY do LEWIS.
This article is intended for young wom-
en- who want husbands. Those who have
made up their minds TO remain single, who
wouldn't marry the best man that ever
| lived can Mersl"-pass over this little ar
| tiele, as i. is of no interest for them.
| About @ week ago a young woman of
twenty came to me about her health and,
after the professional conversation was fin
ished, we fell into pleasant chat.
| She was delightfully."- frank, and said,
while We were discussing matrimony:
Il wish | was little"
THAT is too bad; had been adniring
your grend, queenly proportions ever since
You came In, and now you spoil it all by
| showing that you are not grateful for such
noble gifts.
Il can't help it; wish didn't weigh
more than eighty pounds, and wasn't more
| than four and half feet high"
Well. / am shocked; DO tell me what
makes you wish so.
ITO be frank with you, the reason is
just this: Men are SO fond of saying, My
| little wife," ~
| | laughed, of course, thinking it was in
tended as bright speech; but her flushed
face assured me that instead she was speak
| ing from the bottom of her heart.
go on" l said; ''tell your thoughts"
''My thoughts are just these, and I be-
| lieye they are the thoughts of all unmar-
ried, manageable women. I long Tor
nothing as LIDO to bury all my uncertain
| ties and anxieties in the love of a husband
| But fear there is nothing left for me but
| to be sneered at as an old maid oil my life
So while | might otherwise be grateful for
what you call my queenly proportions, l
can only wish I was of the little women
whom men seem to fancy"
You are perpie1ed and 6rleved 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 explain. He is
a splendid fellow, and dying to have
home of his own; but he dare not venture.
He declared In my parlor the other day
that he would prefer ten years of happy
married life to fifty years of this miserable
nothing and nowhere. But, said he:
II am banker. Ny salary is So, 600.
can't marry scrub. I must marry a wife
with manners My 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 year2
Why, her dress alone would cost half OF if.
Oh, no; unless 1 first make up my mind 10
rob the banks I couldn't think OF matri-
mony. If I had SIS, 900 year I would ven
ture; but with only So, 00Or'
"My lady friends think am SO much in
love with the = club that have no time
for them; and one of them said to me the
other day:
"'Why, Bob, what you spend in that
miserable club would support wife
easily"
SIT wouldn't pay for her bonnets, re-
piled.
Now, ladies, Bob is getting little ex-
travagaut, and we'll let him retire; and
will preach you a little sermon about al
inch long.
You are perfect idiots to go In this way
Your bodies are the most beautiful of Gods
ere ttion.
Now stand with me and see a lady pass.
Look at that wasp waist, squee ling her
lungs, stomach, liver, and other vital or
gans 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 partner?
Your bad dress and lack of exercise lead
TO bad health, and men wisely fear that
they would get an invalid to take care
of This bad health Injuries the mind as
well as the body. You have no power no
magnetism You are superficial, affected,
silly; you have no womanly strength and
warmth.
Why, you have become SO childish and
weak minded, that you refuse to wear de-
cent 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 Bobby, Dickey and John
ny, but when they grew up to manhood, |
of hot c--ltz II,
But know q woman Of twenty-f Years, |
and she is as big as both my grs 1others
put together, who insisted IN being |
called Kitty, and her real name is Gather
inc; and although her brain is big enough |
to conduct affairs Of state, she does moth |
ing but giggle, cover up her face with her
ian, and exclaim, once in four minutes, |
Don't now, you are real mean"
How can man propose life partner
ship to such a silly goose? My dear girls,
you must, If you would, get husbands and
decent ones. dress in plain, neat and be-
coming garments, and talk like sensible,
earnest sisters.
You say that the most sensible men are
crazy after those butterflies OF fashion. Il
beg your pardon, 1t is not 80. Occasional
~ man OF brilliant success may marry
silly, weak womsn, but to say, as ] have
hStAIu HOuSA Sdy AlhUESu tunes, that
the most sensible men choose women with
OUT sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen
| times in twenty sensible men choose SEN
sible women. | grant you thatin company
| they are very likely to chat and toy With
those oyerdressed and forward creatures;
| but they don't ask them to go to the altar
with them. d. H.
Among the young men in the matrimo-
NAL market, only small number are rich,
| and IN America such rarely make good
husbands. But the number of those who
are just beginning in lite. who are filled
with ambition, who have future, is very
large. Those are worth having But such
will not, dare not, ask you to join them,
while they sac you SO idle, silly, and COR
geouSly attired. Let them see that you
are industrious, economical with habits
that secure health and strength: that your
life is earnest and real; that you would be
willing to begin at the beginning IN life
with the man you would consent 10 marry.
| All ! If ever the time shall coue when
| young omen have occupations, and can
sustain healthy, dignifed attitude toward
men, when they shall escape this pitiful
| dependence, then marriage will become
universal. and We shall ell be better, hap
| pier and nober.
Rurai Existence in Merry England.
/ From the London News
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