The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-02-10


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me q netio ana Padding Qaestion'
Bas5n girl propounas the fol-
io,n tra4s question, and receives
.nwer from one who evidently
.n.reciates the situation;
4Could you love man who wore
false hair on his head when he had
enough of his own2 Who painted
his face and improved his form as
you improve { p yours2 Wbopinched
MS feet with small shoes, bis HANDS
with small gloves, his Taist With cor
sets, and then, as if he had not al
ready deformed himself enough, tied
a huge hustle to his back, and trust
tiny mountains Of wire into his oe-
son. n
am disguised with you, Bostons
YOU, oil anyfosher girl, who follows
the fas hons, and then rails about
them. there is not a doubt that
YOU are the very personifcstion in
STYLE from the jute switch that,spr-
noun your eranium, to tie dainty
French boots, which torture your
tiny feet. Ihold that it is every
Ii6ods's duty 20 look as well as they
esil.s or rs their ciseumstanees viii
admit of; and what would be said
of any girl or woman Rhoedid- not
arrange har hsSF after the prevailing
style, although there are plenty Of
I ladies who do that, with only their
ewn Iuxuriant tresses, without get
tihe any credit for it, as everyone
saws, ~What a SPLENDID switch, !"
waose boots and gloves did not set
neatly, Who gore Hitting dresses,
and, supposing we do wear bustles;
when they are properly adjusted; in
stead of being adeformity they are
very becoming. There is nothing
injurious about them, and we must
iave some variety. Women dress
to please the men, and there is not
tIhan in Cristendoui, Tho has the
moral courage to appear in public
With lady dressed, however mod
,stly. and seusiblF,-if in disregard of
the prevailing fashson. a.
4 And when sou come right down
TO the nicety of the point, and talk
about getting OF e's self up to look
pretty, Tue men use quite as much
deception for that purpose as the
women, and Qnite as much time md
money Your gentleman pays a
barber by the week to keep his hair
md whiskers in order, and TO brush
md clean and 6x him up,sand turn
haim out il the morning, iit for his
] Jlace. Of business, and st night pre-
.entable for the evening; and a tai
lor by the year to keep him well
tressed. Aad you justgoto these
ailors, to the "artist tailor" in
Temple place, in your own city for
nstanre, and see Whist they will tell
you, If you can persuade them to tell,
u stays and corsets, padded chests,
.houlders, and even legs, to which
che "tiny mountains of wire, which,
| perhaps, some ladies wear-although
ior my own part, ] never saw such q
thing-are not circumstance. Men
quite as often use cosmetic as
women. They wash in borax saRd
Lemon Juice, use endless guam
of glycerine and sweet eil-and can
tell the girls secrets aboutsleeping
in kid gloves and poulticing hands
1 and face, to make them white. Per
4 maps yoa- have not big brother. /
have, and a big cousin, both Of whom
delight in looking as irresistible as
possible, and some Of the mysteries
/ ii the toilet into which these same
lords Of creation have initiated US
/ girls would astonish you. Why
bless you, Boston, we didn' teYen
know there was such thing as
'Fearltina," until they told us.
Most all the students use ii, y says
Cousin Tom, who is at Yamherst;
''cali t get along without il, it makes
| them so fail" And then, brother
Jack tells who buys cosmetics at his
sirug store, and it is not the girls. /
knew for certainty, of more men
that paint their faces, than I do
women, really paint, pink and white,
and YOU can't find one lady in five
hundred that does that. Almost
every lady sometimes uses a little in
nocent toilet powder, to eounteraet
the effect of soap, and makes no sec
ret of it, but that is very different
thing from poison paint. Do you
say it is only young clerks and stu
dents that are SO vain; you are mis-
taken, vanity is not confined to a
class. I have heard a lady say, who
for years kept a large boarding house
for gentlemen, and at diderenttimes
numbered professional men, railroad
officials, insurance agents, drummers,
mechanics, etc, etc, among her pat
rons, that nearly every toilet table
was gnpplied with paint, and she
knew they used it. And no harm in
it either, only this universal painting
mak,s one almost fancy that Civil
sstion failure, and the Caucasian
played out.
I ike to see fair play. The men
need not blame women for what they
are eontinua ly doing themselves.
Gould you love 3 man who pinc5ed
his feetY I should just like to see
Boston or any other girl find man
to love who does not wear boots
full size too small for him. Did you
ever see q mans bare foot? I wish
YOU could see brother Jacks. They
look about as much like a llaadv's
soft, white, pretty, perfect shaped
feet, as they do ike mud turtles.
Corns here, and dislocatiOns there,