Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-11-06
rrMIvINE PERsoaALs.

We boast Of car system Of education
we have female high schools, female co..
leges. female medical schools, and female
heavens Our girls are refined, learned,
and wise iaey can sing, dance. play the
piano. paint, talk French. Italian, and all
the soft languages, write poetry. and love
ike Nenu.cs. They are ready to be cOurted
at ten wears. and can be taken from school
and married at fifteen, and divorced at
twenty They make splendid shows on
bridal tours, can coGuette and hirt al the
watering places, and shine like angels at
winter partics But Heaven be kind TO the
poor wretch that mGrries IN the fashionable
circles What are they al washing floors
Oh We flrcot-nobOdY has bare floors
now how vulgar il would be W hat are
they al making bread and boiling beetF
I Why, how tIouEhtless we are, 10 be sure
tacy Will board or have servants. nat are
tbev a. meuding old clothes But there
we are anain-the fashions change so often
that nobody has old clothes but the rag
men and uaper-makers now. nat are
1 they al WASHING babies faces and plnnlng
mn their trousers We repeat, We have
( come % point where young men hesitate
and crow old before they can decide wheth-
/ er they can marry and attorward keep Gear
/ Of bankruptcy and crime. What Is the
/ c1n-eaueurc2 There are more persons Nv
/ inc single lie. Are there more leading a
virtuou- liie2 Il j. time for mothers 10
T know thar ;hc extravaganza they encourage
Is destructive 20 the virtue OF their child
rem ttatal the foolish expenditures are.
instead of answering that end. tending to
DESTROY the institution Of marriage alto
I retho-- Boston Investigator.
. g Mo-
ane kiu.in-W God. Californian actress. 70
have sparks about her.
Ex-3Ia.or Medil. Of Chicago, writing
1 from Switzerland TO the Ir3Auc of that
city. SAYS that he has seen hundreds OF ing
lish ladies tramplnE over the mountains.
Alpea-tocS iu hand. and evidently quite
/ able 60 care for themselves. They care
nothing about q walk of $50 twenty mile
dav go q steep ACTIVITY Cr along narrow
mule path sklrgiug the edge OF a preclplce
90 Bat be SAYS. whenever ! meet wO
nan carried 90 q sedan chair By four swift
zcrs up q mountain. u see a glacier. al
Avalanche. OF G cascade, II Is not necessar'
20 look az he- pr1digi0us mass of back han
81 know t1at she IS not English but Amcri
can.
Wide thc " o-tcru CranEers are hghtin!
acaiu~. imaginary foes they arc tATeatene,
with real danger The surprising youn!
woman vino, besides playing the piano
dancing like an angel talking seven o.
eight languages and doing the family wash
iDE, find, tine 90 cultivate farm single
banded, and raise ,acreir1m unhearc o
crops Of everything that grows. i multi
ply.u- apact. Sue has already spread Z
Miss ppi. " where she has harvested thu
I ..||I s-.. ..f %. "A
co.0red l4D1reIs On tie place have not gin
ned a bale And voi this admirable vOun.
person is ' only 10 years of age, and a lad,
o. 0oot. TO. excellent pareutage, excellen
mind and unoiemished reputation N
wonder t1a Aick-burg iic.s5urCer shout,
thinz n-- deserving # statue, or, stl-
better, .. g. husband
We're o minister. instead OF decry In.
the struggling efforts Of my lady psrishi1n
e-- @. make themselves beautiful through
the articles o! dress, as they appeared be
fore nae on Sunday morning. / would preaci
g sermon upon the power Of dress a. mean
Of spiritual salvation We cannot Away
really tell what are the moral agents a
work 10 the world. acting Is preventives {,
vice and crime refining, elcyating anC
purifying oar lives. ! do not think tina
our moral Instruments are yet line enough
10 estimate fully the power OF dress a ont
of the worlds moral agents. believe tina
dress and morals react. and that when ont
desceui- in the scale Of virtue the fact j.
ms manifest IN the lace and ten IN It., th'
care.ess' o4enY' tous-sl appearance " "a
ii OheS'eIieil VINO saia that ne hai suneT
ed more from his bad dancing than from al
his other defects of body OF mind 3? and
verify believe that there l. many a woman
Nh5 las suffered more from beins ooiiseu L