The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-04-16
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Why are Women Weak:

nature, a greater injury to her physical
and mental constitution, than the hard.
ships Of poverty and neglect. When
we consider what an intricate SYSTEM
of defiance to all known physiological
laws a womans dress has become, and
the tender age at which this defiance
begins, we cannot wonder that women
are weak physically.
Can we expect them to have sound,
healthful bodies when they are covered
with 80 much artifciality?
Just notice the next one you see
passing along the street and see if she
isn't pretty looking object. A big
hump, three big bumps, wilderness oil
crimps and frills, a hauling up of the
dress here and there and an enormous
mass of hair or bark piled on top OF her
head, surrounded by little fiat, orns-
mented with bits OF lace, birds tails, DC.
The shop windows tell US all day long
of the paddings, whalebones and steel
springs that occupy most OF the space
within that outside rig. In the name
of the simple, sweet sentiments which
cluster about home, l would ask, How
is a man to fall in love with such a
piece o. compound, doubled and twisted
touch me-not artificiality as you see 10
that wiggling curiosity.
The bad dress and lack Of exercise
lead to bad health, and men wisely fear
that instead OF helpmeet they would
get an individual to take care OF. This
lad health in females is what causes
the mind to become so weak and effem,
mate. 1t destroys all their power and
| know they giggle freely
and use great many big a1jectives
such as "Splend,d," "awtuL." But then
this does not deceive US; we can see
it all. They are superficial,
and silly. They have none o.
that womanly strength which is so
assuring and attractive 10 man. Why,
they have become so childish and
weakminded that they refuse to wear
decent names, even. Instead of Helen,
Margaret and Elizabeth, they must
have baby names such as Nellie,
Maggie and Lizzie. When your broth
ers were babies you called them Bobby,
Dickey and Johnny, but when thew
,row up 10 manhood they say, No more
IF that silly trash" if you please. l
know a woman who is twenty-five years
I'D, and she is as big as both my
,randmothers put together, and her
cal name is Catherine, and though her
rain is big enough to conduct the af'
airs of State, she does nothing but gig.
,le, cover up her face with her handker-
.hief and exclaim once in two minutes,
Don't, nos0, you are real medni How
IAN a man propose a life partnership
With such silly goose. My dear girls,
{ You would get husbands, and decent
ines, you must dress in plain, neat and
becoming garments and talk like sensi-
DE, earnest sisters. You may say that
nest sensible men are crazy alter these
of fashion. / beg your par
don; it is not 80. Occasionally a man
Of brilliant success may marry silly,
" eak woman, butte say, as have heard
cav q hundred times, that the
most sens Die men choose women with
out sense, is simply absurd. Nineteen
times in twenty, sensible men choose
sensible women. / grant you that In
company they are very likely TO chat and
TOW with those over-dressed and forward
creatures, but they never ask them
10 90 to the altar with them. Do they
ever say can live happy with you, 80
give your consent and take up liies
Journey with met. No they never are
caught using such language as that.
Men who are worth having want
women for wives A bundle ofgewgaws
bound with string Of fats and quavers
sprinkled with cologne and set in
rarmine saucer is no help for q man
who expects to raise q family of boys on
veritable bread and meat. The piano
and lace frames are good enough 10
their places and go are ribbons, frllls
and tinsels, but you cannot make q din
ner Of the former or a bed blanket Of
he.latter, and wonderful as such an
dea may seem to you, both dinner and
bed blankets are necessary to domestic
happiness. Life has its realities as we'll
as It's fancies and can we wonder
that women are weak mentally
when they never do anything to
strengthen their minds, and expect to
live on the fancies of lie instead Of the
realities? But after they have follow
ed the goddess Fashion until they have
ruined their minds and enfeebled their
shall we find it matter
of surprise that women as race are
diseased and feeble? Shall we wrap
this ruined creature away in a shawl
to die, and say with sorrowlul assur-
snce. Behold woman as God made
her?
Woman as God made her! AS Fash
ion and the devil and her own cow
ardice have made her. God never
made such women as are Grading the
next generation in this land TO-DAY.
Side by side with female illiteracy y
female feebleness is running race
among us. Neglected brains and
tortured bodies are working Their way
upon our actual and possible mothers.
Among the young men in the matrl-
mouial market. only q very small num-
Der are independently rich, and In
America such very rarely make good
husbands. But the number Of those
who are Just beginning in lie. who are
filled with a noble ambition, who have
a future, is very large. These are worth
having. But such will not, they dare
not ask you tojoin them while they see
you 80 idle, silly and gorgeously alfred
Let them see thst you are industrious,
economical, with habits that secure
health aud strength, that your lite is
o,.,ost on1 rssl that Won wOuld be