Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-06
LADIES' COLUMN.

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writer in the Paris Gazette, is not small
woman. The race of petites has passed
away. The typical American woman is tall,
well formed, 1.-the, graceful as fawn. She
talks well on small stock Of knowledge and
has an immense deal of tact-social tact. ]
mean-the tact that can win lover and
crush rival.
GIRLS, READ TINS. "A recent writer to
the Wonaan's Journal goes for the banged
hair idiots and handles them without gloves
as follows: Every day I meet in the
streets young ladies, who would otherwise
look intelligent, reduced to the appearance
OF ldiocy by peculiar method of combing
their hair down over their forehead. This
hideous deformity is evidently copied from
the patients of lunatic asylums and schools
for the feeble minded. The effect is shock
ing. Although not fastidous, I shrink from
these ladies as children shrink from a hide.
GUS mask. am told that lady thus de-
graded is said to have her hair g banged. !"
But it seems to me her sanity must be sadly
banged, to thus deform herself"
The HANDS AND NA1Ls.-The most pre-
Judicial habits in early youth, to the hands,
frequently arise from learning the piano.
forte and harp. The former, particularly
If not well looked to, from the earliest en-
deavors put forth to stretch the octave. is
apt to render the fingers crooked while
the latter, if played without the proper
covering to the fingers, thickens and hard
ems the ends to most unpleasant extent
When the hands become chapped, they
may be treated with an ointment made as
follows: scrape into an earthen vessel one
and o half ounces of spermaceti and half an
ounce of white wax, six drachms of DOW.
dered camphor, and four tablespoonful of
the best olive oil !; let it stand near the fire
until it dissolves, stirring it well when liquid,
and, before retiring to sleep, put the oint-
ment on the hands also after washing
them. Great care should also be taken not
to meddle too much with the borders of
the nails, but to resign them to the opera
ton Of that natural balsam which nourishes
them, and by means of which their borders
increase and are renewed. All that is re-
CURED is to touch the nails as little as DOS
sible.
DRESS, IA COOP THING IN A WOMAN"
This question of dress for woman should
be viewed in two lights: one, regarding her
personal comfort and convenience; and the
other, the influences Of her appearance up
on the opposite sex. The first should al
ways be paramount, since it is connected
with her personal rights; but the second is
OF great Importance, because her power al
ways has been, and always will be. in her
attractions. Woman does not depend on
her own muscular strength, but by her DO
tent magnetic influence she controls it in
the other sex, and renders it subservient to
her refined wishes.
There is one view of this subject which
we think has been overlooked by those
ladies who favor radical dress reform. We
allude to the physical fact that the head of
woman is larger, in proportion to her whole
figure, than that of man. Hence that of
the Medician Venus is no longer the stand
ard OF beauty-it being universally admit
ted to be too small. A preference is now
given to that of Powers Greek Slave and
to his Eve, which are more true to nature
now, whatever may have been the case
with the ancients. Woman, therefore. re-.
quires more loosely draping than does the
opposite sex; and as we have been SO long
in the habit Of regarding her in that guise,
we think it cannot be lessened or curtailed
without doing violence to what man re-
CARDS as good taste. And, although wo.
mans general personal charms may be the
first attraction to man, yet her most perma-
nent power lies in the affections and men
tai qualities which are developed and in
creased as other charms are diminished.
Woman, therefore, thus clad, appears more
nearly the same to us always, than she
could be made to by any modification hith-
erto suggested by dress reformers. All
changes in dress, therefore, which go to in.
crease her comforts, should be of a charac-
ter not to lessen her destinations.