Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-06-29
Advice to Yeung Ladies.
.-.'rALK By pRrDIoLEwIs.

L
sR Now, ladies, I will preach you a little
sermon, about an inch long. don't often
preach. but, in this case, nothing but a
sermon willido. ndcL g.t y 5ef3
- Firstly. You arc perfect idiots to go
on this way. Your bodies are the most
beautiful of Gods creation ba In the con-
tinental galleries, 1lal&ays saw groups of
people gathered about pictures of women.
It,was not passion 1.-THE gaze was just as
likely to be women as men; il was because
of the wondrous beauty of woman's body.
= Now, stand with me at my Office window,
and see lady pass. There goes one
Now isn't that a qpTetty-looking object !?
A big hump three big Jumps; wilder
ness of crilnps and frizzles; a hauling up
of the dress here and there an enormous,
hideous mass of false hair or bark piled
on the to top of her head, surmounted by
a little fat, ornamented with bits of lace.
birds tails, etc., ETC. The shop windows
tell US. all day long. of the paddings,
whalebones and steel springs which occupy
most of the space within that outside ring.
r. In the name of the simple, sweet SEN
timents that cluster about home, / would
ask, how is man to fall in love with such
a piece of compound, doubled and twisted,
toueh-me-not artifciality, as you see in
the wriggling curiosity! s9a g. ais
81 Secondly. With that wasp waist stfueeZ-
ing 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 up of use, Of
service, of work, take such partner? He
must be desperate, indeed, to unite him
self for life with such fettered, haif-breath
ing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bao dress and lack of
exercise leads to bad health; and men
wisely fear that. instead of a helpmate,
they would get an invalid to take care #.
This bad health in you-just as in men
makes the mind as the body, faddled and
etTeminate. You have no power. no mag
netism. know you giggle le freely, and
use big adjectives, such as splendid"
awful :" but, then, this doesn't deceive us;
we see through it all. You are superficial,
affected, silly you have none of that wo-
manly strength and warmth which are so
assuring and attractive to men. Why
YOU have become so childish and weak
minded that you do not wear decent
names even, and insist upon baby names
Instead of Helen, 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, know woiDano of twenty five years,
and she is as big as both of my grand
mothers put together, and her real name
is Catharine, aud though her brain IS big
enough to conduct the affairs of the State,
she does nothing but giggIe. cover up her
face with her fan, and exclaim once III
four minutes, Don't now; you arc real
mean"
How can a man propose partnership
for 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
earnes- sisters.
You gay that the most sensible men are
crazy after the butterflies of fashion.
beg your pardon; ;.itis not so.- Occasionally
a man of brilliant success may marry
weak, silly woman buy 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 1 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.
Fourtbly. Among the men in the ma
trin,onial market, only very small num-
Der are independently rich, and, in Ameri-
ca, such rarely make good husbands. But
the number of those who are just beginn-
ing. who are filled with noble ambition,
who have a 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 SO gorgeously at
tired. Let them see that you are industri-
Gus, economical. with habits that secure
health and strength, that your life is real,
that YOU would be willing to begin at the
beginning in life with the man you would
consent to marry, then marriage will be-
come the rule, and not be, as now, the ex-
ception.