New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-17

BY French courtesans, whose life work it
| to study how most effectively to pander
| the sensuality Of man. So our girls 90 int
q ballroom half naked. while their brother
| 60 clothed to the very shin. This auction
block display is demOralizing to the yirtu
of our nation. [Applause.]
In woman's degradation man has taste
shame and death, and in her elevation b
shall gain moral power and strength to rise
any man. You may never be wives, o
mothers, or housekeepers, but you will b
women.
want all girls to regard themselves no
as adjectives, but nouns. They will be in
dependent, responsible workers. 1t is
very pretty theory that every woman has
strong right arm until she lands safe on tn
other side. But the fact conflicts with tn
theory.
To educate all women for teachers O
seamstresses. is to make supply create
than the demand. They must have wide
field.
Horace Greeley says what we most wan
is not women voters but fifty thousand goot
cooks in our kitchens: Why has he no
educated his two daughters to the profes
sion! They could get twenty dollars pei
month or two hundred and forty dollars pei
year. Is there harder or more wearing
life than revolving around hot stove three
hundred and sixty-fve days in the year
Besides, men have shown such an aptitude
for the profession Of cooking. They car
stand smoke and women can't. In all the
best hotels men are cooks. They are doing
the work so admirably that it is pity te
think of allowing the girls to supplant them
Girls, in all your getting get health. SICK
men take sickly views OF everything. Feeble
ness Of body and mind accompany each
other. Gentlemen. the millennium is near a,
hand. Then the girls will have no more OF
headaches, sideaches and toothaches
The small waist will be done away with.
The girl OF fourteen is o romping, natural
beng, but as soon as her dressmaker gets
hold Of her, she begins to form the waist
tight waist prevents free circulation OF
the blood and free breathing. When we
to deep thinking. we know the value of a
natural waist Where we moderns got our
ideas Of form from is wonder. The small
waist is not like ANYTHING on the earth. or
in the air, or in the waters under the
earth.
Artists turn aside from daughters of Han
cock and Adams 70 models Of the ancients.
Girls say that their waists are natural l
don't believe it is IN harmony with nature
for the ribs to be Tapped and the breathing
restricted.
At West Point, recently, the cadets threw
oil their suspenGers and wore their clothes
broke out The physicians puzzled them
selves to discover the cause. 1t was found
to be the weight Of the clothes on the hips.
They were ordered to wear suspenders
again. and the epidemic ceased. If such is
the effect on boys, what must be the effect
on our daughters with so great a weight Of
clothes supported by their waists! Nothing
can be more distressing than their present
mode Of dress.
When l interceded with the regents of
the University OF Michigan for the admis-
sion Of girls into the university. they asked
Inc, DO yOu think that girls can stand
Latin" l tod them they could stand it a
great deal berrer. SAID: II would like to
see you take thirteen hundred young men
and lace them up, and hang ten to twenty
pounds weight Of clothes on their waists.
perch them up ca three inch heels. cover
their heads with ripples. chignons, rats and
mice, and stick ten thousand hair pins into
their scalps. If they stand all this they will
stand little Latin and Creek [Laushte1
and applause.
garments, and wear your dress above your
boottops. Exercise must be regular to be
effective. Some don't walk oftener than
once a year, and then when they come
back all tired out they say walking does
not agree with them.
When l was girl l used to walk FIVE
miles or ride ten every day, and 10 that and
the fact that did NOT lace l am indebted
for my present health. 1t is all nonsense
abou. the natural disabilities of women.
They are oil artificial
want to make women feel as guilty
when they are sick as when guilty Of the
sin Of perjury. You can not make wise,
sound woman out Of sickly frame.
do not look TO women to correct this.
but to fathers. and brothers, and husbands,
and editors TO write it up.
| wish you, one and all, 70 study the laws
Of health and obey them.
Another reason why girls should cultivate
good health Is. that they may be beautiful.
In the New York Sur ! saw an advertise
ment of Hayden Magnolia Balm which.
it is said. would make a woman of thirty
look as young as girl of sixteen. What
woman of thirty would look like a girl of
sixteent Girls. waste 20 money in cosmetics.
White lead enters more or less in all of
them, and many cases of nervous disorder
are brought On by il.
nothing, that will preserve your beauty Of
body and soul.
For hair. complexion and eye, there is
nothing like exercise. eating good food,
bath in cold water every day-not three
times day, as a Cincinnati paper made me
say: that would wash out all your vitality.
Eat no chalk. and stone. and india rubber,
and gum. and slate pencils. Do not chew
and chew, as your brothers do.
Be kind. generous, noble and magnani-
nous, and you will have halo about your
head which will cause you to excel in per
,onal beauty, which you will carry to your
grave. Your mission is not merely to eat,
% drink, to be merry, to be married and to
20 mothers, but to mold yourselves into
Ever stretch forward to more
grand ideas.
In the second place, the coming girl is to
,e wealthy-that is, creator of wealth.
urge upon parents to educate girls to
proper life work. One-half the ability of
sirl is lost because she has no ambition for
he future. ! want 10 raise the standard of
I'D maids. l want to teach women that
as a profession, is. nine out of
en- times, failure. l want to counterfeit
he feeling that labor is a degradation.
Almighty army Of women is suffering in
Eastern cities. from the fact that the world
considers it degrading for woman to labor
n New York alone over $4,000 women are
hus situated. Fully three fourths of the
iris before NE will be called at some period
f their lives to support themselves. To-day
he husband and father may be wealthy, and
reverse comes, and the wife
nd daughter are left to begin the struggle
or life.
For three years there has been bill be-
ore the Legislature of New York to license
restitution. o, men. the best way to check
bis vice is to give women a place in the field
f work, and to pay her wages for her work.
low there are thousands who don't know
ow to work. and yet must eat. How can
hey support themselves! By making shirts
t twelve cents each!
This condition is one ca11se wfv the mar