Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-13
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Under this interesting and suggestive
title respectable and inhuetial religious
paper, published in an, ancient mud sen
sible city gives some wholesome truth,
and in terms more terse, PERHAPS, Than
courteous, which we copy, indorsihR the.
sentiments most heartily. We beg q say
TO girls, in whisper, ten thousand good
young men are waiting to find JUST such
girls as you are, who have palmer and
less expensive habits, and whom as
wives, they hope to support. "a WORD
to the wise is sufficient. "--EditOr .ScisRpe
Of Heatts.. t3s 3sgo
First, you sre perfect idiots to Ro .on
iu this way. Your bodies are the, MOST
beautiful Of Gods creation. In the con
tinental galleries always saw groups Of
people gathered about tn. pictures Of
women. 1t was not passion; the gag
ers were just as likely to be women as
men, it is because Of the wonderful beau.
ty Of woman's body. 'i sfgfs
Now stand with me at my Office win.
dow, and see lady pass. There goes
oneI Now isin't that a pretty looking
object? A big hump, three big lutnpk
a wilderness of Grimps and frills, u haul
ing up the dress here and there, an
enormous, hideous mass of hair or bark,
piled Oh top of her head, surmounted by
a little fiat ornamented by bits of Lace,
birds tails, etc. The shop window tell
you all day long of the paddings, whale
bones, and steel springs which occupy
the most of the space within the outside
rig '''''o
In the name Of all the simple, sweet
| II. "A.
would ask how is man TO fall in
love with such piece of compound
double twisted, touch -me-not artificial
ty as you see in that wriggling cufiCs
ity? t-3-. 5tr aah.H
Secondly, with the wasp waist squeez-
ing your lIngs, stomach, liver and other
vital organs into one half their natural
size, how can any woman of sense, VINO
knows that life is made up of use, Of
sense, of service, of work, take to such
partnerI He must be desperate, III
deed, to unite himself to such fcttered
half-breathing ornament.
Thirdly, your bad dress, and lack Of
exercise lead bad health, and men
wisely fear that instead Of help
mate, 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 effcrminate:---
You have no wooer, and use big adjec
tives, such as s.splendid."s No magnet
ism! l know you giggle fearfully Saw
full" but then do not deceive us; we can
see through it all. You are superficial,
!, affected, silly; you have none of that
womanly strength and warmth which
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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 Eliz-
abeth, you affect Nellie, Maggie and
Lizzie. When your brothers were ba-
bies you called them Bobbie, Dicky, and
5 Johnny; but when they grew up to man
/ hood, no more of that trash, if you
: please. But know a woman of twen-
e ty-fve years, she is as big as both OF
!; my grandmothers put together, who in
e sists upon being called Kitty, and her
b real name Catharine; and although her
- brain is big enough to conduct the af-
9 fairs of State, she does nothing but. gig
p gle, cover her face with her hands, and
exclaim once in four minutes, ''Don't
l. now! you are real mean!" 4tsr -
IS How can you propose a life partner
e ship to such silly goose; My, deal
d girls you must, if you get husbands, and
s decent ones dress in plain, neat, becop
: ing garments, and talk like sensible
earnest sisters.
IS You say that the most sensible meI
n are crazy after these butterflies of fash.
= ion. | beg your pardon it is not So
n &C L..ll..nf
e may marry silly, weak woman; but, a!
@ l have heard women say a hundret
E, times, that the most sensible men choos
y women without sense, is simply absurd
e Nineteen times in twenty, sensible mel
choose sensible women. grant yo
L. that in company, they are very likel
le to chat and toy with these overdresse,
o. and forward creatures, but they dom
le ask them to go to the altar with them
Fourthly, among young men in tn
of matrimonial market, only a small mum
p- Der are independently rich, and in Amer
v lea such rarely make good husbands
er But the number of those who are jus
Sc beginning life, who are filled with nc
5y BILE ambition, who have future that
- very large. These are worth having
= But such will not, they dare not ask yo
IS to join them, while they see you so idle
ut silly and so gorgeously attlred. LIE
On them see you arc industrious, economi
re cal, with habits that secure your healtl
I'd and strength, that your life is earnes
er and real, that you would be willing q
ce begin AT the be- inning in life with the mar
~, you would consent u m Irry, then marriag
;" would become the rule, as now the exception
John PloughrHan once said: II ney
er knew Of good horse which had no
N! some old habit or other, and never We
III saw a minister worth his salt, who ha,
not some erotehet or oddity. Now thes
e, are the bits of cheese that cavalier
nd smell out and nibble at; and this man j
'e' too slow, and another too fast; the frs
Is is too flower, and the second is too dull
er Dear me, if all Gods creatures wer
ne judged in this way, we should wiring tn
aI doves neck for being too tame, shco
ne the robins for eating spiders, kill tn
p crows for swinging their tails, and hen
" for not giving us milk. When ma
AZ wants to beat dog he can soon find
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