The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-09-03
Injurious Habits OF the Young Girl Of
Fashion.

The indolent, inactive, voluptuous mode
of living INDUCED in by the thoughtless
votary of fashion, IN addition to the alb
surd and destructive manner of dressing,
contributes largely to the excavation Of
the individual and impairment of her
general health. Late hours, and lounging
much of the day in a warm feather bed,
in lily ventilated apartments, with heated
air, irregular mesls-hot stimulating food
and drink, excessive dissipation during
the night, over dancing, exposure to the
cold and damp night air when thinly clad
entertaining company at unreasonable
hours, mental condition varying from ex'
cessive excitement to extreme depression,
which such a life invariably produces, all
tend to render such name OF existence
ANYTHING bat desirable, yet 1t is miscalled
a life Of pleasure, and longed for by those
who cannot attain it. The everlasting
complainings, the racking headaches,
neuralgia pains in every part Of the body,
the poisoning jealousies, and the ten thou.
sand other nameless perplexities incident
to such a life, render it one Of extreme
misery--not to be envled ever by the
careworn daughter Of toll, who earns her
daily bread by daily, illy.paid labor.
After such a life of folly, irivolity and
dissipation during her early years, should
| she survive their immediate results, and
remain unmarried, in her declining age
she will reap a harvest from the seed sown
in her youthful days and nights. Peevish,
irritable, complaining, health sacrificed,
and to happiness a stranger, none to love,
because her state of mind and physical
condition will not be such as to excite
that tender emotion in any one, none to
sympathize with her In her wretched
condition, because all will recognize it as
the inevitable fruits Of early protligacy,
pride and selishness; and, finally, at vari-
ance with herself and the world, she will
sink into the grave, "unwept, %unhonored
and unsung," and the world will feel
that it has lost but little by her
demise. Should some man be 50
unfortunate as to become dazzled by
her Vaccinations and unite his destiny
with hers, II possessed of the intelligence
and s~ensibilities of 8 man, he would soon
perceive that he had got for q wife an
empty sham, q toy, q gew gaw, and
worse, a thing neither ornamental mol
useful, an incumbrance, a whining, com
planning, self-made invalid, a miserable
m~alcontent, a perpetual annoyance; with
out intelligence or moral capacity to com
pensate for destroyed health, and mental
irritability with all the sweetness OF tenn
per, g~entleness, kindness, amiability
and loneliness Characteristic Of thu
cultivated and refined of her sex
sacrificed upon the altars of pride, selfish
ness and fashion. Can such a being
expect or even hope to retain tn.
affection, or even the respect, Of q mar
of sense and culture, however deep ar
impression she might have made upo1
his heart, by her blandlshrhents and show
, before time had diyulged the grand de
; ception Of which he has been made til,
, victims He soon becomes dissatisfie,
with his home, because he finds nothin,
: there to make 1t attractive. She in whom
! he expected to find centered all the en-
dearments that make life happy within
, the sacred precincts Of home, has becom,
an object Of disgust instead Of alteration
and all marriage obligations, and legal re
: straints that the.ingenuity Of man ha
r ever devised are not strong enough +
g hold him in companionship with her, b,
whom he has been ba ely deceived an
r whose pervtrseness and cold selhshnesl
5 have rendered her an object of abhorrenc
and contempt Medical Independent.