The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1871-07-13

BY DIR. do LEWIS.

Now, ladies, I viii preach to you JUS
little sermon, about an inch long. j
don't often preach, but In this case no
thing but a sermon will do.
Firstly-You are perfect idiots to GO
on In this way. Your bodies are the
most beautiful of Gods creations. In
the Continental galleries l always saw
groups of people gathered about the pic
| lures of women. 1t was not passion
the gazers were just as likely to be women
as men it was because of the wondrous
beauty of woman.
Now stand with me at my office win.
dow and see a lady pass. There goes
one now isn't that a pretty looking OBJ
ect A big hump, three big Jumps, a
wilderness of crimps and frills, hauling
up of the dress here and there, an enor-
nous; hideous mass of hair or bark piled
on the top of her head surmounted by a
little fat, ornamented with bits of lace,
birds tails, etc. The shop windows tell
US, all day long, of the paddings, whale
bones and steel springs, which occupy
most of the space within that outside
rig.
In the name of the simple, sweet SEN
timents which cluster about home,
would ask, how is man to fall in love
with such piece of compound, double
and twisted, touch-me-nOt artifciality, as
you see in that wriggling curiosity?
Secondly-With that wasp waist, squeez-
ing your lungs, stomach, liver, and vital
organs into one-half their natural size,
and with that long tail sweeping on the
Of WI r
knows that life is made up of use, of ser
vice, of work, how can he take such a
partner? He must be desperate indeed
to unite himself for life with such a fet
tered, half-breathing ornament.
Thirdly-Your bad dress and lack Of
exercise lead to bad health, and men wise.
ly fear that instead of helpmate they
would get ON invalid to take care Of
This bad health in you, just-as in men,
makes the mind as well as the body fud-
died and efeminate. You have no pow.
er, no magnetism. 1 know you giggle
freely, and use big adjectives, such as
splendid lawful" but then this does
not deceive us; we see through it ALL
You are superficial, affected, silly; you
have none Of that womanly strength and
warmth which are so assuring and at
traetive to man. Why, you have be-
come so childish and weak-minded that
you refuse to wear decent names even,
and insist upon baby names. Instead of
Helen, Margaret, and Elizabeth, you af-
feet Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie. When
your brothers were babies, you called
them Bobby, Dicky and Johnny, but
when they grow up to manhood, no more
of that silly trash if you please. I-know
woman of twenty-five years, and she is
as big as both of my grandmothers put to-
gether, and her real name is Catherine,
and though her brain is big enough to
conduct affairs of State, she does nothing
but giggle. cover up her face with her fan,
and exclaim once in four minutes, ''Don't
now, you are real mean"
How can man propose life-partner-
ship to such silly goose? My dear
girls, you must, if you would get hus-
bands, and decent ones, dress in plain,
neat and becoming garments, and talk
like sensible, earnest sisters.
You say that most sensible men are
crazy after those butterflies of fashion.
l beg your pardon, it is not so. Occa-
sionally a man of brilliant success may
marry a silly, weak woman; but to say,
as have heard women say hundred
times, that the most sensible men choose
women without sense, is simply absurd.
Nineteen times In twenty, sensible men
choose sensible women. / grant you that
in company they are very likely to chat
and toy with those over-dressed and for
ward creatures, but they don't ask them
to go to the alter with them.
Fourthly-Among the young men in
the matrimonial market, only a very
small number are Independently rich
and in America such very rarely make
good husbands. But the number of
those who are just beginning in life, who
are filed with a noble ambition, who
have future, is very large. These are
worth having. But such will not, they
dare not, ask you to join them, while
they see you so idle, silly and gorgeously
alfred Let them see that you are in
dustrious, economical, with habits that
secure health and strength, that your life
is earnest ard real, that you would be
willing to begin at the beginning in life
with the man you would. cohsent to
marry; then marriage becomes the rule,
and not, as now, the exception.