Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-02-25
Advice to Young Ladies'.
TALK BY DIR. do LEWIS.

I Now, ladies, | viii preach vou
little sermon, about an inch long. !
don't often preach but, IN NJ case,
nothing but a sermon will
Firstly. You are perfect ol, to 20
on this way. Your bod qre The
most beautiful of Gods ion. In
the continental galleries, ways saw
groups Of people gathered Jout pic
lures of women 1t was passion
the gaze was Just as likely 0 be W,
men as men it was because of g..
wondrous beauty of a Womsn's b.
Now, stand with me az my ~
window, and sec lady pass. me-.
goes one! Now, ism; that a oHy
looking object? A big hump ,hres
big Jumps; " .derness ci .rimp
and frizzes hauling up of the DIRE
here and there an enormous, 1e6ys
mass of false hair or bark piled on u
top of her head, surmounted by littl
flat, orname ted with bits of lace,
birds tails, eto., etc. The shop win
dows tell us, all day long, of the pad
dings, whalebOnes md steel springs
which occupy most OF the space with.
in that outside ring.
In the name OF the simple, sweet
sentiments that cluster about a home,
| would ask, how is a man to fall in
love with such piece of compound,
doubled and twisted, touch-me.not
artiflcialitya as you see in the wrig-
Cling curiosity?
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 up of use, of service, of work,
take such partner? He must be des-
perate, indeed, to unite himself for life
with sucn fettered, half-breathing
ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dIcss and lack
of exercise leads to bad health; and
men wisely fear that, instead of help
mate, they would get an invalid to
take care of. This bad health in you
just as in men-makes the mind As
the body, taddled and efleminate.
You have 10 power, no magnetism. |
know you giggle freely, and use big
adjectives, such as splendid, lawful :"
but, then, this doesn't deceive us; we
see through itall. You are superficial,
affected, silly; you have none of that
wOmanly strength and warmth which
are so assuring and attractive to men.
Why you have become so childish
and weak minded, that YOU wear de-
cent names even, and insist upon baby
names. Instead of Helen, Margaret
and Elizabeth, you affect Nellie, Mag
gle and Lizzie. When your brothers
were babies, you called them Dolby,
Dicky, and Johnny; but when the,
grew up to manhood, no more of that
silly trash if you please. But | know
woman of twenty-five years, and
she is as biz as both of my grand
mothers put together, and her real
name is Catharine. and though her
brain is big enough to conduct the al
fairs of the State, she does nothing
but giggle, cover 40 her face with her
fan, and eXclaim once in four minutes,
Don't now you are real mean
How can man propose a partner
ship for life with such 4 silly goose
My dear girls, YOU must, you would
get husbands, and decent ones, dres-
IN plain, neat, becoming garments,
| and talk like sensible, earnest sistr.
You say that the most sensible mcd
are crazy after the butterflies oftasl-
ion. beg your pardon; it is not
| Occasionally man of brilliant sue
cess may marry weak, silly woman.
but to say, aG have heard women say
hundred times, that most sensible
men choose women without sense, l.
simply absurd. Nineteen times in
twenty, sensible men choose sensible
wives. grant you, that in company,
they are very likely to chat and toy
with these 0ver-dressed and forward
creatures; but they don't ask them to
go to the altar with them.
Fourthly. Among the men in the
matrimonial market, only very small
number are Independently rich, and,
in America, such rarely make good
husbands. But the number of those
who are just beginning, who are filled
with a 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 gorgcously
attircd. Let them see that you arc in
dustr.ous, 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 become
the rule, and not be, as now, the cX-
centiou.