Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-01-28

Fallaciss About Wensa.v Il
/ The cultivaticu Of respect INA Sou}isej
toward our fair betrayers II "a - 60
highly omthopded and elforesd, be1 ~
claim ID this article 70 assault c6resi& fpblj
prejudices in favor Of wohsn Ahishs1avS
their foundation upon roalastic 9ieAne{oli.s
For instance, where is~thers gft2tsRf ffsl-
lacy than 10 the belief thst voinsn, Hee6iek
nothingi Yet iu ,romancs, ,aysn 81 aki1
modern day, " read eo6sia9tly s'oft h1soss
msgnsnimously rSShisg ~ With; sNtsd9iog
maidens from blazing houses. of 1borS
felouiously "carting" them on their shoul-
ders for purposes Of revengeful abduction.
Let any one out of training, or under six
feet Of height, and with proportiobate
strength, attempt to run away with fairly
well-composed girl of eighteen Of twenty.
and give us his opinion Of the pfowess of
these vaunted knights A woman wefghg
ing one hundred and forty pounds Wsi3htS
Of kicking womanhood is not to be carried
at all. Even slight girl will weigh y
hundred pounds, and Rudolph or Hor1tio'
will stagger under her lovely but cumber-
some figure If he break out Of staccdfo
walk a. 6 .s'.s. s
There are plenty of buxom girls who
weigh up TO hundred and seventy pounds
and it is not given to every man to /" harry
Off with such baggage. When the
victimized Squallina faints on the stase,s
the robust baritone takes care that thu
eranouissemcns shall be accomplished q
close to the wing as possible He knows
what La Squallina weighs BY the sad ex-s
perience Of rehearsals. Let any Of opr...
readers carry his sister up three flights OF.
stairs without stopping, aud forward 10 M,
his sentiments on the occasion. Wome1
weigh good many pounds new days.
and their airiness Of fabrication is fallacye
: Another popular belief is that women;
eat nothing. It is, of course, conceded,
that they sustain life by tho consumption
of some article Of nourishment, but eating
in the wholesale acccptation of the word is'
supposed to be foreign to female nature.s
This fallacy is founded and sustained bJ,
women themselves, who, during the af-
fected period Of their lives, cultivate small,
appetites as being CONNIE II taxs and z
sign of semi-angelic construction. Wheut
this pernicious nonsense 10 conscieutiousIx
carried out, tho results upon the would III
angels are squalor, red noses, certain Ioss;
Of vigor, general limpidness, and some
other unpleasant seq.elr. But, as rile,l
the smallest appetitics at the fashionable
tables arc exhibited by those shrawd girls
whose natural and healthy wants have
been thoroughly appeased BY secret stuff.
ing. Need We refer our readers 10 the
historical poem concerning Violsnts in
the pantry, gnawing of mutton bone, or
remind them how she gnawed it, how she
clawed it, when she found herself aloney
All this is direct deceit, however, practice
ed upon unsophisticated old bsshslossf
who when they have made. .sthsssdsint5
creatures theirs, find out BY the butchers;
book and the occular proof what sturdy
trencher women they have married. Watch
a healthy girlat supper, during the inter-
vals Of dancing; she consumes by Install
meats four times as much as her partner,
and seems, and is, none the worse for sit.
Our experience tells US that women eat;
in proportion to their weight, as much ~
men, and are no more fairies iulthis N.
spect than in the matter Of wsishtavis "a
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