Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-06-17
Advice TO Young Ladies'.

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Now, ladies, l will preach you a
little sermon, about an inch long. l
don't often preach, but in this case,
nothing but a sermon Will do.
Firstly. You are perfect idiots t6
go on this way. Your bodies are The
most beautiful of Gods creation, In
the continental galleries, l always
saw groups of people gathered about
pictures of women, 1t was not pas
sion the gaze was just as likely to
be women as men: ii was because
of the wondrous beauty ola Woman's
body.
Now, stand with me at my office
window, and see a lady pass, There
goes one! Now, isn't hat a pretty
looking object? A big hump three
big Jumps; a wilderness OF crimps
and frizzles; a hauling up of the
dress here and there an enormous,
hidcous mass of false hair II bark
piled on the top of her head, sur
mounted by a little flat, ornamented
with bits of lace, birds tails, etc,
etc. The shop windows tell us, all
day long, OF the paddings, whale
bones and steel springs which occupy
most of tho space with that outside
ring.
In the name of the simple sweet
sentiments that cluster about a home,
Ivgoul ask, how is a man TO fall in
love " til such a piece of compound,
doubled and twisted, touch-mc-not
artifciaity, As you see in the Tris-
Cling curiosity.
Secondly. With that wasp waist
squeezing yourluugs, stomach, liver,
and vital organs into one half Of
their natural size, and with that long
train dragging oil the ground, how
can any mar OF sense, who knows that
life is made up Of use, of service, of
work, take such a partner? lie must
be desperate, indeed, to unite himself
for life with such a fettered, halt
breathing ornament!
Thirdly. Your bad dress and lack
of exercise leads to bad health and
men wisely fear that, instead Of a
hclpmate, they would get an invalid
to take care of, This bad health in
you--iust as in men-makes the mind
as the body, faddled aud efleminate.
You have no magnetism, know you
gigglc freely and, use big adjectiyes,
such as splendid" "awtul;' but,
then, this doscn't deceive us; we
see through it all, You are super
4 '"1 affected, silly you have none
ct % yomanly strength and
when are so assuring and
e to men. Why you have
lg.. ..t SO childish md 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 a woman of twenty-five
years, and she is as big as both of my
grandmothers put together, and her
real name is Catharine, and though
her brain is big enough to conduct
the affairs of the State, she does
nothing but giggle, cover up her face
and exclaim once in four minutes,
now Won are real mean"
How can a man propose a partner
ship for life with such q silly goose?
My dear girls, you must, if you
would get a husband, and decent
ones, dressing plain, neat, becoming
garments and talk like sensible,
earnest sister.
You say that the most sensible
men are crazy after the butterflies of
fashion. l beg your pardon; it is not
so. Occasionally a man of brilliant
success may marry . weak, silly
woman but to say, as | have heard
women say a hundred times, that most
sensible men choose women without
sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen
times in twenty sensible men choose
sensible wives, | grant you that, in
company, they I very likely to
chat and toy with these oyer-dresSed
and forward creatures; but they
don't ask them to 60 to the altar
with them.
Fourthly. Among the men iii the
matrimonial market, only a very
small number are Independently
rich, and in America, such rarely
make good husbands. But the num-
Der of those who are Just beginning,
who are filled with noble ambition,
who have a future, is very large.
These arc worth having. But such
will not ask YOU to join them, while
they ee you so idle, silly, and 50
gorGeously attired. Let them see
that you arc Industrious, economical,
with habits that secure health AID
strength, that your life is real, thae
you would be willing to begin at tn
beginning in life with the man you
would consent to marry, then mar
riage will become the rule, and not be
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