Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-09-23

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chiyalry as the poor girl or the pen
uilcsS widow.
The coming girl will rcvolutlonizc
the fashion. Our present fashions
are sent TO us by French cOurtczans,
whose life work it is to study how
most effectively to paudcr to the ,cn-
Suality Of man. So our girls 20 into
a ballroom half naked, while their
brothers go clothed to the very shin.
This auction-block display is demon
alizing to the virtue OF our nation.
Applause.
In wOman's degradation man has
tasted shame and death, and in her
elevation he shall gain moral power
and strength to rise.
Your life-work, dear girls, is not
to please any man. You may never
be wives, or mothers, or housckccp-
crs, but you will be women.
want all girls to regard them
selves not as adiectivcs but nouns.
They will be Independent, response
bic workers. 1t is a very pretty the
DRY that every woman has a strong
right arm until she lands safely on
the other side. But the fact conflicts
with the theory.
To educate all women for teachers
or seamtresses, is to make n supply
greater than the demand. They must
have a wider field.
Horace Greeley says what wcmOst
want is not women voters but fifty
thousand good cooks in our kitchens,
Why has he not educated his two
daughters to the profession? They
could get $50 per month or $40 per
year. Is there a harder or more
wearing life than revolving round a
hot stove 1868 days in the year? Be-
sides men have shown such an apti-
tude for the profession of cooking.
They can stand smoke and women
can't. In all the best hotels men are
cooks. They arc doing the work SO
admirably that it is a pity to think
ofallowing thegirls to supplant them.
Laughter.
Girls, in all yonr gettings get health
Sick men take sickly views of every
Feebleness of body and mind
accompany each other. Gcntlcmcn,
the millennium is nearat hand. Then
girls will have no more head
aches, sideacncs and toothaches.
TIGHT LACING.
The small waist will be done away
with. The girl of II is a rompiug,
natural being, but as soon as her
lressmaker gets hold of her, she be-
gins to form the waist. A tight waist
prevents free circulation of the blood,
free breathing. When we re-
member that deep breathing is ne
TO deep thinking, we know
he value Of a natural waist. Where
We moderns got our ideas of foYn
rom is u wonder. The small waist
) not like anything on the earth, or
n the air, or in the waters under the
arth.
Artists turn aside from daughters
f Hancock and Adams to models of
he ancicnts, Girls say that their
are natural. | don't believe it
5 in harmony with nature for the
lbs to be Tapped and the breathing
'Cstrictcd,
At West Point, recently, the cadets
brew Off their suspcndcrs, and wore
heir clothes hanging to their waist.
Soon al epidemic broke out. The
physicians puzzled themselves to
discover the cause. 1t was found TO
be the weight of cloths on the hips.
They were ordered to wear suspcn-
lcrs again, and the epidemic ceased.
If such is the effect on boys, what
must be the effect on our daughters
so great a weight of clothes
supported by their waists? Nothing
can be more depressing than the pre-
sent mode of dress.
When | intcrcedcd with the Re-
gents Of the University of Michigan
for the admission of girls into the
University, they asked me, "Do You
think girls can stand a thorough col
course of Greek aud Latin 2"
| told them they could stand it n
great deal better. | said 81 would
like to see you take 1900 young men
and lace them up, and hang ten to
twenty pounds weight Of clothes on
their waists, perch them up on three
inch heels, cover their heads with
ripples, chignons, rats, and mice, and
stick ten thousand hair-pins into
their scalps, If they stand all this
they will stand q little Latin and
Greek" Laughter and applause.
Girls attend to this at once. Loosen
your garments, and wear your dress
above your boot-tops. Exercise must
be regular TO be effective. Some
don't walk ottener than once a year,
and then when they come back all
tired out they say walking does not
agree with them.
When l was o girl | used TO walk
five miles OF ride ten every day, and
to that and the fact that | did not
lace, | am indebted for my present
health, 1t is all nonsense about the
natural disabilities of women. They
are
ALL ARTIFICIAL.
/ want to make women feel as
guilty when they are sick as when
guilty of the sin of perjury. You
cannot make a wise, sound woman
out of a sickly frame.
| do not look to women to correct
this, but fathers, and brothers, and
husbands, and editors to write it up.
| wish you, one and all, TO study
the laws of health and obey them.
Another reason why girls should
cultivate good health is, that they
may be beautiful. In the NewYork
Sun | saw an advertisement Of"IIay-
dcn's Magnolia Balm" which, it is
said, would make a women of thirty
look as young as q girl of sixteen.
What women of thirty would look
like a girl of sixteen ? Girls waste no
money in cosmetics. White lead
enters more or less in all of them,
and many cases of nervous disorder
arc brought on by it.
HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL.
will riVp vOu n rccnint 1Oor u;,I,