Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-02-09
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Advice Ts Youag Ladies.
talk nv DIR. DIo LEWIS


Now, ladies, will preach you little
sermon, about an inch long. don't often
preach, but, in this case, nothing but
sermon will do. }
Firstly. You are perfect idiots to go
on this way. Your bodies are the most
beautiful of Gods creation. In the con.
tinental galleries, always saw groups oil
people gathered about pictures OF women.
Ii vas not passion the gaze was just as
likely to be women as men 1T was be-
cause of the wondrous beauty of woman's
body.
Now. stand with me at my office win-
dow. and see lady pass. There goes
one Now, isn't that pretty-looking oo-
iect ? A big hump; three big lumps;a a
wilderness of crimps and frizzes a hauling
up of the dress here and there an enor-
mons. hideous mass of false hair or bark
piled Ion the top of her head, surmount-
ed bv a little fat, ornamented with bits OF
lace birds, tails etc. etc. The shop win
dows tell us, all day long, OF the padalhgs'
whalebones and steel springs whicn occ1-
DIV most of the space within that outsiuo
ring.
In the name of the simple, sweet sentl,
ments that cluster about a home, wou-u
ask how is a man to fall in love with snch
a piece of compound, doubled and, twist
ed. touch-me-not artifciality, as you see
in the wriggling curiosity:
Secondly. With that wasp waist;
squeezing your lungs, stomach, iiver' anu
vital organs into one half of their haturai
size, and with that long train dragging on
tho ground, how can any man OF sense,
who knows that life is made up OF use, OF
service. of work, take such partner! lie
must be desperate, indeed, to uniIe nun
self for life with such fettered, nall
breathing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack OF
evcrc;so leads to bad health and men
wisely fear that, instead OF heipma'e'
tbev would get an invalid to take care o.
This bad health in you-just as IN men,
makes the mind as the body, faddled and
efTeninate You have no power, no mag
netis,n. l know you gigsle freely ana
use big Electives, such as splendid a"-
FIJI ;" but. then, this doesn't deceive us;
VIC see through it all. You are supern-.
cial, affected, silly; you have none OF
that womanly strength and warmth WINCH
are so assuring and attractive TO nie";
Wky YOU have become so childish ana
weakminded, that you wear decent names
even. aud insist upon baby names. N
stead of Helen. Margaret and Elizabeth,
Won affect Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie
When YOUR brothers were babies, you
called them Dolby, Dicky. and johnny;
bit when they grew up to manhood no
more Of that silly trash ifyou please. but
| know woman of twenty-five years, and
she is as big as both of my grandmothe,rs
put together, and her real name Is Cath-
arine, and though her brain is bug enough
TO conduct the affairs of the State. she
does nothing but giggle, cover ur her
face with her fan. and exclaim once In four
minutes. Don't now. you are real mean.
How can man propose partnership
for life with such a silly goose My
dear girls, you must, if you would get
husbands, and decent ones, dress in plain.
neat. becoming garments, and talk like
| sensible earnest sisters. et Ea..ff
You say that the most sensible men are
crazy after the butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon. it is not SO. Occasional
| ly a man of brilliant success may marry a
weak, silly woman; but to say, as l have
heard women say hundred times. that
most sensible men choose women without
sense, is simply 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 creatures
but they don't ask them to go to the altar
with them.
Fourthly. Among themes in the mat
rimonial market, only a very small num-
ber are independently rich, and. in Amer
lea, such rarely make good husbands. But
the number of those who are just begin
ming, who are filed with noble ambition.
who have 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 50 gorgeously
attired Let them see that you are in-
dustrious. economical, with habits that
secure health and strength, that your life
is real. that you would be willing to be-
gin at the beginning in life with the man
YOU would consent to m lrry, then marriage
will become the rul; :, and be, as now, the
exception. hF