Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-11-04
Advice to Yeumg Ladies'.
TALK BY DR.. do LEWIS.

Now, ladies, | will preach you just Ii
tie sermon, about an inch long. I don
!, often preach, but in this case nothing but
!, sermon will do.
Firstly. You are perfect idiots to 60 o
this way. Your bodies are the most beau
tiful of Gods creation In the continents
galleries I always saw groups of peopl
gathered about pictures of women It wa
not passion i; the gazers we're just as likely +
be women as men /; it was because Of til
wondrous beauty of woman's body.
Now stand with me at my Office window
aud see lady pass. There goes one !
I Now isn't that pretty looking object? A
big hump; three big Jumps: wilderness o
crimps and irills; a hauling up of the dress
here and there; an enormous, bideous mas,
oefalse hair or bark piled on the top Of The
head, surmounted by little fat, ornamen.
ted with bits Of lace, BIRDS tails, etc, etc
The shop windows. tell us. all day long,
Of the paddings, whalebonos 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, [ would
ask, how is man to fall in love with such
piece Of compound, doubled and twisted
touchme not arti6ciality, as you see in the
wriggling curiosity
Secondly. With that wasp waist, squeez-
ing your lungs, stomach, liver and vital Or
gans into onc-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 partner ? He must be desperate,
indeed, to unite himself for life with such
fettered. half breathing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and laca of cx-
erclss leads to bad health and men wisely
fear that instead Of helpma.e they would
get an invalid to take care Of. This bad
health in you-just as in men-makes the
mind as the body faddled and efFeminate.-
You have no power, no magnetism. [ know
you giggle freely and use big adjectives,
such as splendid" awful ;" but then this
don't deceive us we see through it ALL
You are superficial, affected, silly; you
have none of that womanly strength and
warmth nhich are SO assuring and attractive
to men. Why, you have become SO child
ISL 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 ba-
bies you called them Robby, Dicky and
JOHNNY; but when they grow up to manhood,
no more of that silly trash, ii you please
But | know woman of twenty five years,
and she is as big as both of my grandmoth-
ers put together, and her real name is Cath
airline, and though her brain is big enough
to conduct the affairs Of State, she does
nothing but giggle, cover up her face with
"Don't now, you are real racan."
How can a man propose life rartRsr-
ship to such a silly goose? My dear girls,
you must, if yon would get husbands, and
decent ones, dress in plain, neat, becoming
garments, and talk like sensible, earnest
sisters.
You say hat the most sensible men are
crazy after these butterflies of fashion I
beg your pardon, it is not So Occasionally
man of brilliant success may marry a weak.
silly woman; but to say, as I have heard
women say a hundred times, that the most
sensible men choose women without sense,
is simply absurd. Nineteen times in TWEEN
ty, sensible men choose sensible wives. I
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 very small
number are independently rich, and in
America such rarely make good husbands.
But the number OF those who are just be-.
ginning, who are filed with 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,
economical, with habits that secure health
and strength, that your life is real, that
you would be willing to begin at the begin
ning in life with the man you would consent
to marry, then marriage will become the
rule, and not as now, the exception.