The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1870-11-17
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
TALK BY DR.. DO LEWIS.

TALK BY DR. Do LEWIS.
Now, ladies, | will preach you just little
Sermon about an inch long. I don't often
preach, but in this case nothing but sermon
will do.
Firstly You are perfect idiots to 90 on
this way. Your bodies are the most beauti-
full Of Gods creation. In the continental gal
lerles always saw groups of people gathered
about pictures of women. It was not passion !;
the gasers were just as likely to be women as
men; it was because of Che wondrous beauty
of a wonan's body.
Now stand with me at my Office window
and see a lady pass There goes one /! Now
isn't thata pretty looking objectr A big
hump; three big humps; wilderness of
crimps and frlses hauling up of the dress
here and there; an enormous, hideous mass
of false hair or bark piled on the top of her
head. surmounted by little fat, ornamented
with bits Of lace birds tails, etc, etc The
shop windows tell us, all day long Of the pad
dings. whalehones 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 home. I would
ask, how is man to fall in love with such
piece of compound doubled and twisted
touch me not artiGcia|ity. as you see in the
wrigging curiosity 2"
Secondly. With that wasp waist, squeez-
ing your lungs, stomach, liver and vital or
gans into one-half their natural size, and with
that long trail dragging on the ground, hcw
can any man of sense. who knows that life is
made up of use, of service of work. take such
partner? He must be desperate indeed to
unite himself for life with such fettered,
half breathing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack of exer
else leads to bad health and men wisely fear
that instead of a helpmate they would get an
invalid to take care Of This bad health in
yon-just as in men-makes the mind as the
body faddled and effeminae You have no
power, no magnetism. know you gigele free
y and use big adjectives, such as splendid +"
lawful )" but then this don't deceive us we
see through it all You are superficial, affec
ted. silly; you have none of that womanly
strength and warmth which are so 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, Marga-
ret and Elizabeth, you affect Nellie. Maggie
and Lizzie When your brothers were babies
you called them Dolby, Dicky, and Johnny
but when they grow up to manhood, no moro
of that silly trash, if you please But know
woman of twenty five years, and she is as
big as both of my grandmothers put together
and her real name is Catharinc, and though
her brain is big enough to conduct the affairs
Of State, she does nothing but gggle, 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 life partnership
to such silly goose? Ny dear girls, you
must. if you would get 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 the butterflies of fashion. [ beg
your pardon, it is not SO Occasionally man
of brilliant success may marry weak silly
woman; but to say, as I have heard women
say hundred times, that the most sensible
ulCu CllOUsc NOlucu EtIOuG S6uSC. is Slmply
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 crea-
lures but they don't ask them to 90 to the
altar with them.
Fourshly. Among the young men in the
matrimonial market, only very small num-
Der are Independently rich, and in 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 hav-
ing. 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. economical, with habits
hat secure health and strength, that your
life 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, aud not as now the excep-
ton.