Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-03-06
ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.
FOLLY ON THE WING.

First, you are perfect idiots to 60
on in this way. You bodies are the
most beautiful of Gods creation. In
the continental galleries 1 always
saw groups ofpeople gathered about
the pictures OF woman. 1t was not
a passion; the gezers we're just as
likely to be woman as men; it was
because of the wonderful beauty Of
a woman's body.
Now, stand with me at any Office
window, and see lady pass. There
goes one! Now isn't that a pretty
looking object? A big hump, three
big Jumps, a wilderness of crimps
and frills, a hauling up Of the dress
here and there. an enormous, hideous
mass of false hair or bark piled on
top of her head, surmounted by
little fiat, ornamented with bits of
Ia ce, birds tails, &c. The shop
windows tell you all day long of the
paddings, whalebones, and ste:l
springs which occupy most Of the
space within that outside rig.
In the same of all the simple sweet
sentiments which cluster about a
home, l would ask. how is a mau to
fall In love with such piece of com
pound, double twisted, touch me not
artifciality. as you see in that wrig-
Cling curiosity?
Secondly, with the wasp waist,
squeezing your lungs, stomach, liver
and other vital organs into one half
their natural size, how can any man
of sense, who knows that life is made
up OF use, OF sense, of sesvice, of
work take to such a partner? He
must be desperate, indeed, to unite
himself for life with such fettered.
half. breathing ornament.
Thirdly, your bad dress and lack
of exercise lead to bad health. and
men wisely fear that instead of a
helpmate they would get an invalid
to take care of. This bad health in
you, just as in men, makes the mind
as well as the body fuddled and effe
inmate. You have no power, and
use big adjectives, such as "splen-
did" No magnesium !! l know you
giggle freeley. "awful," but then this
don't deceive us; we can see through
it all. You are superficial. affected,
silly; you have none of that woman
ly strength and warmth which are
so assuring and attractive to man.
Why you become so childish and
weakminded that you refuse to weal
decent names even, and insist upon
baby names. Instead of Helen
Margaret and Elizabeth, you affect
Nellie, Maggie and Lizze. Wher
your brothers were babies, you call
ed them Robby, Dickey, ana Johny
but when they grow up to manhood
no more of that silly trash, if yor
please. But l know a woman o.
twenty-five years, and she is as big
as both my grandmothers put to
gether, who insists upon being call
ed Kitty, and her real name is Cath
, crime, and although her brain is big
, enough to cond1ct affairs of state
she does nothing but giggle, cove
up her face with her fan, and exclain
once in four minutes, "Don't now
, you are real mean"
How can man propose a lif
partnership to such silly goose
/ My dear girls, you must. if you ge
, husbands, and decent ones, dress il
f plain. neat, becoming garments, an,
talk like sensible, earnest sisters,
< You say that the most sensibl
, men are crazy after these 'butterflie
a of fashion. 1 beg your pardon, it
= not so. Occasionally a man q
e brilliant success may marry a sill,
: weak woman, but as / have hear
e woman say hundred times, that tn
h most sensible men choose wome
:. without sense, is simply absurd
!. Nineteen times in twenty, sensibl
men choose sensible women.
grant you that in company they al
very likely to chat and toy with thes
q overdressed, and forward creatures
e but they don't ask them to go to th
alter with them.
a Fourthly. among the young me
in the matrimonial market, only
g small number are independently ric
$ and in America such very rarel
q make good husbands. But the nun
y ber of those who are just beginnin
T. in life, who are filled with mob
a ambition, who have future, is vel
u large. These are worth havi1
: But such will not, they dare not as
:. T. you to join them, while they see yo
u so idle, silly, and so gorgeously a
le tired. Let them see that you are i
e dustrious, economical attired. L
&c them see that you are industriou
e economical, with habits that secu
- your health and strength, that yo,
.e life IS earnest and real that you wou
IS be willing to begin at the beginnir
j. in life with the man you would CO..
e sent to marry. then marriage will b
IL come the rule, and not. as how, Il
! exception.-Boston Congregation
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