The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1879-11-13

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God take her!
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He Would and She Wouldn't.
A certain young lady residing on Mob
hill, III this town, has been engaged to
marry gentleman, also a resident, for
long time, and the wedding-day has
been set and all the preparations made
four different times, but each time the
young lady backed out at the last mo
ment, and asked that the ceremony bo
put off, She would give no reasonable
excuse for her actions, and processes
the greatest affection for her atfianced
husband, but the entreatings of he1
friends and the pleadings of her lover
have always failed to induce her to full
fill her engagements at the appointed
time. Her last freak occurred last
week. Every preparation was made
for the wedding; the rousseau was
purchased, and every thing was in
readiness. She promised that she
would no longer delay the marriage,
and that she would not back out again.
The happy groom, who had invested
several hundred dollars in wedding
suits, white kids, etc., was delighted,
and ordered another swallow-tail of the
very latest style and everything to
match, regardless of expense. The
bride, too, with the assistance of her
friends, was arrayed in superb style.
The day appointed for the nuptials ar
rived, when, to the surprise of her
friends, she announced her determine
ton to again postpone the marriage.
Expostulations. entreaties and demands
were of no avail-nothing would cause
her to alter her mind, which was made
up to put off the event to some future
day. The willing-to-be husband was
informed of the obstinate maiden's re-
solve, and was nearly frantic with des-
pair and chagrin. He called upon her,
and upon his Bonded knees begged her
to reconsider her cruel determination,
but all to no purpose. The obdurate
maiden refused to yield, and the
orange blossoms and other fixtures were
returned to the store-keeper, but the
unfortunate groom was obliged to keep
his 500 suit, as he had done with three
different styles on as many similar occa-
sions. Notwithstanding his many griev.
GUS disappointments, he is willing to
forgive and forget, and negotiations are
pending for 'another rattle" -Ee1reka
Leader.
Healthy Women.
A writer, in urging the necessity for
more attention to physical culture,
notes as favorable sign the fact that
"the pale and interesting" type of fe-
male beauty is fast losing its popularity,
and that men of position and influence
are declaring for the healthy standard
of womanly beauty, such as was ever
recognized by Greece and Rome. This
is certainly an important and happy
change in public taste, and already the
effects of it are to be detected in an i'm
proved condition of feminine health !;
for it will hardly be denied that on an
average the women OF to-day are physi-
caIy superior to what they were few
years ago when tight-lacing and SINH
lar destroying customs prevailed. Young
women take more exercise than they
formerly did. They ride and walk
more, and are more in the open air.
They have not the insane dread of the
suns rays which they once had. But
there is much room for improvement
yet. Many homes are still presided
over by invalid wives and mothers, who
furnish constant spectacle of sadness
and misery to their families and friends,
and are subject Of unlimited expense
to their husbands. In such homes the
greatest of all blessings that could be
hoped for would be the health of the
mistress restored; but too often it is
the one blessing which never comes.
American homes, more than any
other, perhaps, in the world, have been
saddened by sickly women. If this
shall be SO no longer, it will be great
blessing to the nation. And the remedy
is simple. American men are as strong
and healthy as those of other nations ;
there is no good reason why American
women should not be. All that is needed
is proper attention to dress and exer-
else. Let women dress, as men do, so
that their bodies shall not be squeezed
and pressed together, but have free room
for motion, and let them get out into
the air and sunshine, as men do, and ex-
ercise their bodies, and the race of
American women will not become ex-
tinct, as it once threatened to do. On
the contrary, it will be improved, built
up, and beautifed, and time will
ahortly come when healthy man will
not have to hunt whole county over
to find healthy wife. We are on the
right track now; all that is needed is to