The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-06-15
THE ENTERPRISE.
SWestWater. Thursday, June Is, 1871.
Advice to Young I&dies.
TALK BY DIR. DIo LEWIS.

Firstly. You are perfect idiots to go
on this way. Your bodies are the most
beautiful Of Gods creation. In the con-
tinental galleries, I always saw groups
Of people gathered about pictures of
women. 1t was not passion; the gaze
was Just as likely to be women as men
it was because Of the wondrous beauty
OF a wonlah's body.
Now, stand with me at my office win
dow, and see lady pass. There goes
one! Now, isn't that a pretty-looking
objectH A big hump; three big Jumps;
a wilderness Of crimps and friEzles, a
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 fiat, ornamented
with bits Of lace, birds tails, ETC., etc.
The shop windows tell MS, all day long,
of the paddings, whalebones and steel
springs which occupy most Of the space
within that outside ring.
In the name of the simple, sweet SEN
timents that cluster about a home, /
would ask, how is n man to fall in love
with such piece Of compound, dou-
bled and twisted, touch-me-not artifci-
ality, rs you see in the wriggling curl
osityp
Secondly. With that wasp waist
squeezing Your lungs, stomach, liver,
and vital organs into one half Of their
natural size, and with that long train
dragging on the ground, how can any
man OF sense, who knows that life is made
mp of use, OF service, of work, take such
q partner? He must be desperate, in
deed, to unite himself for life with such
fettered, half-breathing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack Of
exercise leads to bad health; and men
wisely fear that, instead Of q helpmate,
they would get an invalid to take care
Of This bad health in yol-just rs in
men-makes the mind as the body,
flddlcd and cffenlinate. You have no
power, no magnetism. I know you gig
gle freely, and use big adjectives, such
as splendid, awful" but, then, this
doesn't deceive MS; we see through it all,
You are superficial, affected, silly; you
have nohe Of that womanly strength and
warmth which are 50 assuring and at
tractive to men. Why you have become
so childish and weak-ininded, that you
do not wear decent names even, and in
sist upon baby names. Instead Of Hell
EN-, Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect
Nellie, Maggie and Lizzie. When your
brothers were babies, you called them
Dolby, Dicky and Johnny; but when
they grew up to manhood, no more Of
that silly trash if you please. But, l
know n woman of twenty five years, and
she is as big as both of my grandmoth-
ers put together, and her real name is
Catharine, and though her brain is big
enough to conduct the affairs of the
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 partner
ship for Il life with such 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.
You say that the most sensible men
are crazy after the butterflies of fashion.
1 beg your pardon; it is not so. Occa-
sionally q man of brilliant success may
marry 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. I grant you,
that in company, they are very likely to
chat and toy with these over-dressed
and forward creatures; but they don't
ask them to go to the altar with them
Fourthly. Among the men in the mf-
trimonial market, only very small num-
Der are Independently rich, and, in
America, such rarely make good hus-
bands. But the number of those who
are just beginning, who are filed with 0
noble ambition, who have a future, il
very large. These are worth having
But such will not, dare not, ask you t.
Join them, while they see You so idle
silly, and so gorgeously attired. Lei
them see that you are Industrious, eco
nomical, with habits that secure healtl
and strength, that your life is real, tha
you would be willing to begin at the be
ginning in life with the man you woult
consent to marry, then marriage will be
come the rule, and not be, as now, tn,
exception.