Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-12-03
Domestic.

ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES.-trst, you
are perfect idiots to go ON in this way.
Your bodies are the most beautiful of
Gods creation. In the continental gal
leries 1 always saw groups of people
gathered about the pictures OF women.
1t was not passion: the gazers were
Just as likely to be women as men it
was because of the wonderful beauty of
a woman's body.
Now, stand with me at my Office win
dow. and see lady pass. There goes
onel Now, isn't that pretty looking
object? A big hump, three big Jumps,
a wilderness of crimps and frills,
hauling up of the dress here and there,
an enormous, bideous mass of hair or
bark piled on the top of her head, sur
mounted by little fiat, ornamented
with bits of lace, birds tails, etc. The
shop-windows tell you all day long OF
the psddings, whaiebones, and steel
springs which occupy most of the space
within the outside rig.
In the name of all the simple, sweet
sentiments which cluster about home,
1 would ask, how is a man to fall In
love with such piece of compound,
double-twisted, touch-me-not artifici-
ality as you see in that wriggling curl
osity.
Secondly, with the wasp-waste squeez-
ing 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 service, of work, take to such
a partner? He must be desperate, in
deed, to unite himself for life to such
fettered, half breathing ornament.
Thirdly, your bad dress and lack of
exercise lead to bad health, and men
wisely fear that instead of 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 faddled and etfeminate. You have
no power, and use big adjectives, such
as splendid. No magnetism i
know you giggle freely, ''awful," but
then this don't deceive us; we can see
through it all. You are superficial,
affected, silly; You have none of that
womaniy strength and warmth which
are so assuring and attractive to man.
Why, you become SO childish and weak
minded that you refuse to wear decent
names even, and insist upon baby
names. Instead of Helen, Margaret
and Elizabeth, you affect Nellie, Mag
gle and Lizzie. When your brothers
were babies you called them Bobby,
Dickey and Johnny; but when they
grow up to manhood, no more of that
silly trash, if you please. But l know
a woman of twenty-five years, and she
is as big as both my grandmothers put
together, who insists upon being called
Kitty, and her real name is Catharine;
and although her brain is big enough to
conduct affairs OF State, she does
nothing but giggle, cover up her face
with her fan, and exclaim once in four
minutes: Don't nowl you are real
mean"
How can a man propose life part
nership to such a silly goose? My dear
girls, you must, If you get husbands,
and decent ones, dress in plain, neat,
becoming garments, and talk like sensi-
bic, earnest sisters.
You say that the most sensible men
are crazy after these butterflies of
fashion. 1 beg your pardon, it is not
so. Occasionally man of brilliant
success may marry a silly, weak woman;
but, as have heard woman say a hun
dred times, that the most sensible men
choose women without 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 toy with these
overdressed and forward creatures, but
they don't ask them to go to the altar
with them.
Fourthly, among young men IN the
matrimonial market, only 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 life, who are
filled with a noble ambition, who have
future, is very large. These are worth
having. Bat such will not, they dare
not, ask you to join them while they see
you so idle, silly, and so gorgeously
attired. Let them see that you are in
dustrious, economical, with habits that
secure your health and strength, that
your life is earnest and real, that you
would be willing to begin at the begin
ming in life with the man you would
consent to marry, then marriage will
become the rule, and not, as now, the
exception.
To TRANSFER RENGRAvINGs--Takeg glass
that is perfectly clear-window glass
will answer-clean it thoroughly, then
varnish it on one side only, taking care
to have it perfectly smooth place it
where it will be entirely free from dust;