Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-02

got well into the middle or tho other end
(men's end suppose). think woman is
capable of holding not only her end up. but
his, If necessary. II would be bad, indeed,
to have II fall too heavily on the shoulders
of the masculine gender, for they have not
corsets to support them as women have, and
thoy might sink beneath the burden. " Cor
sots." those are the things l am going to
talk about now, with "trailing robes"
"plaiting,"" rufIling,"" fiuiing, and don't
know how many more ings that have
heard brought up so many times in the col
umns of the FARMER that | am out of all
patience; just rs though woman were the
only one OF tho human family that followed
the fashion, and hadn't mind enough of her
own to leave off all these extra "ings If
she didn't want them on, but had got to put
them on to be in fashion. And those wo-
men who speak Of corsets as being the only
hindrance to woman's health; she might
take her place in the field with the men TO
superintend the building of this and that,
for she originally had strength" il it was
not for corsets. She then would DO strong
and healthy as the pioneer women and those
Il
never too old to learn, but call it an absurd,
an inconsistent idea for any one TO think
corsets do all this; no, not all, for there are
those long trailing robes. Now we don't
doubt but some in city life wear corsots too
tight, trailing robes, and hair done so tight
| that it draws on the nerves. but what is that
| to us; we can see that we don't, and | sup
pose that the writers of the articles meant
us instead of them. | will give two answers
Of physicians. who have practiced for years.
When l asked him if il was unhealthy to
wear eorsets, one said, q" No; If one don't
wear them tight; don't believe in lacing."
The other said, " No; it is support, and
encourage my girls to wear them," and this
same physician has .practiced in Europe. l
| don't want the readers to think am addict
ed to wearing them, and would say to en-
tighten them that never wore them enough
to wear out set yet. And don't favor in
the least anything that in any way will in
| jure the body, which was made perfect in its
formation, but | don't believe corsets and
long robes are the only things that all the
women of the present generation. Now
what ails the wives and daughters of our
larmersP it is not to be supposed they have
INDUCED in these vices. for half of them
never saw corset, much less worn them.
If should answer should say ut once that it
was orCrtCork; they go beyond their strength
there is nothing that wears n woman out
more rapidly than that; it is probably the
reason that American women fade out so
| soon.
Pleasant homes, music, work, enough of it
and not too much, and sleep, l mean just
/ such sound, refreshing sleep rs the men
ha We, are the greater medicines for woman
who needs moro sleep than man. Their
nerves are more sensitive and exhaust on
takes place with them sooner than with
men. 1t is said person never ought to be
reused out of deep sleep; that they never
should be awakened; the body rouses itself
when its demands are satisfidsl2 The mother,
bringing up large family, has not had time
to rest and recover from one draught of
strength before another frail and tender
plant is placed in her hands to watch over
with all n mothers care. and so on till she
has reared n large family. While they are
talking so much about what ails the women,
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what ails the men of the present generation?
| Where is there man in these times that
can endure what the early settlers did
What man can go through with the hard
ship that Peter Cartwright did-the great
pioneer preacher of the West? There are, /
can safely say, not one; the ministers now
have to be superannuated for years. What
is the reason? they don't wear corsets, trail
ing robes thin shoes, nor bring up a family
can't conceive why so much is said on
woman following the fashion, when the men
are not one whit behind them in it. Look al
what 40. Cunber has said, and not hall
has been told. IL il is the fashion to wear
moustaches they all wear them, providing
they can raise hair enough to cover tho up
per lip; If not they get some patent medicine
to make it grow, and il it is the fashion &c
have their dear little moustache bleached
and waxed, that, too, is done. 1t is the
fashion to smoke, drink, and treat each 9th.
or, and they all do it. 1t is the fashion Il
pay a dollar pound for tobacco ten cents a
glass Tor liquor, take half dozen day, ter
cents for n cigar, and all you can get out o
them is, they must do it because it is il
ashion.n Then there arc those stove
pipo hats, and they, no matter how cold thu
weather, will have their cont collars turned
+ back to show their white shirt fronts. | be.
! lieve there are more made drHnkGrCls in Md
/ one thing, treating each other 10 glasses O
liquor, III one year, than in any other way
4 and the dear creatures will part their hair in
the middle, but then, no matter, they don
! try to follow the fashion, ii is the womel
5 only that do that. sometimes could almos
\ echo the wish of Mrs. Livermore rs she tol,
us in our school in Montpelier the history o
( her life. When she with FIVE others ha
. been to the president of II certain college t
, he admitted with the men, after passing tn
: required examination, he told her, No, the
were women, they could not be admitted.
S She turns to him and says, " no you know
what | wish?" " No; what is it?n "Well,
:, wish that every woman, from Eve down t
' the last girl baby that was born. was utterl
o annihilated and God and you might have
5 all to yourselves, n masculine world"
! | think Mrs. Livermore, with us, returni
5 thanks that woman now is being consider
II ed capable of entering college beside man
ana yet not Deslue nlhl TOT III many Casa
>" she is far ahead of him in intellectual abili
: ties. And she need not marry simply for
home, either; let them pay woman for he
labor the same as they pay man for his, an
give her the same education as man, and
have confidence in woman that she is in n
respects competent to care for herself,
That young man who is convinced h
n shall never marry" because he can't find
3, woman good enough for him, is in ba