Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-01-12
Advice to young Ladiee.
BY DIR. do LEWIS.


o BY DIR. do LEWIS.
4 Now stand with me at my ofIic
e window, and see a lady pass. Their
u goes onel Now isn't that pretty
= looking ohjectl A bighump, three
7 big Jumps, wilderness Of crimps
and frills, hauling up of the
dress here and there, an enormous,
hideous mass of false hair or bark
lied on top Of her head, surmount.
ed by little fiat, ornamented with
? bits Of lace, birds tails, etc, etc
The shop windows tell lis, all day
long, Of the puddings whale. bones
and steel springs which occupy
most of the space within that out
side rig.
In the name Of all the simple,
sweet sentiments which cluster
about a home | would ask how Is
man to fall in love with such piece
of compound, double twisted, touch
me-not, artilicialist, as you see in
that wriggling curiosity.
With that wasp waist squeezing
your lungs, stomach, liver, and 9TH
er vital organs, into one half their
natural size, and with that long
trail dragging on the ground, how
can any man Of sense who knows
that life is made up of use of ser
vice, of work, how can he take
such partner? He must be des
perate indeed to unite himself for
life with such fettered, half-breath
ing ornament.
Your bad dress and lack of exer-
else lead to bad health, and men
wisely fear that instead of a help
mate, they would get an invalid to
take care Of This bad health in
you, just as in men, makes the mind
as well as the body fuddled and eff
Terminate. You have no power, no
magnetism l know you giggle
freely, and use big adjectives, as
splendid" awful but then this
don't deceive us; we can see
through it all You are superficial
silly; you have none of that wo-
manly strength and warmth which
are SO assuring and attractive tot
man. Why, you become so child
ish and weak minded that you re-
fuse to wear decent names, even,
and insist upon baby names. In
stead of Helen, Margaret and Eliz-
abeth, you affect Nellie Maggie
and Lizzie. When your brothers
were babies you called them Rob
bic, Dicky and Johnny. But when
they grow up to manhood, no
more Of that silly trash, if you
please. But know a woman of
twenty-five years and she is as big
as both my grandchildren put to-
gether, who insists on being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catha-
rine, and although her brain is big
enough to conduct affairs Of state,
she does nothing but giggle, cover
up her face with her fan, and ex-
claim once in four minutes, Don't
now, you are real mean
How can a man propose life
partnership to such silly goose?
My dear girls if, you must, if you
wish to get husbands, and decent
ones, dress in plain neat, becoming
garments, and talk like sensible,
earnest, sisters.
You say that the most sensible
mel are crazy after these butter
flies of fashion. l beg your par !
don, it is not so-Occasionslly a
man of brilliant success may marry
a silly, weak woman, but, as | have !
heard women say hundred times,
that the most sensible men choose
women without sense is simply alb {
surd. Nineteen times in twenty, {
sensible men choose sensible wo-
men. grant that in company t
they are likely to chat and toy with {
these overdressed and forward
creatures, but they don't ask them |
to go to the altar with them.
Among the young men in the
market, only small
are independently rich, and
in America, such very rarely make
good husbands. But the number
of those who are Just beginning in
life, VINO are filed with a noble am
1ition, who have a future, is very
arge These are worth having -
But such will not ask you to join
hem while they see you are so idle, S
lilly and so gorgeously attired. - 6
let them see that you are industri- c
,us, economical, with habits that q
iecure your health and strength
hat your life is earnest and real,
hat you are willing to begin at the c
of life with the man you
would con sent to marry. then mar
iage will become the rule, and not S
s now, the exception '
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