The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1882-04-19

he will with the utmost GOODNESS sit
down and allow his back to come in
contact with the chair, without the
slightest fear that he will displace
his back hair, crumple his sash, or
disarrange some of the thousand and
one little punches on the back of his
over>skirt. All! no, he has none Of
these multitudinous little cares to
tire his body and keep his mind from
soaring into the intellectual world.
A woman from childhood to old age
has enteebled powers and she blind.
ly shuts her eyes to the cause and
goes OF rearing her daughters TO
walk in her own footsteps. With
an ailing body and uustrung nerves
intellectual development is held in the
back ground. Some one has wisely
said: "Vigor is contagious, and what.
ever makes us either think CIR feel
strongly, adds to our power and en-
larges our field of action" In a
woman's garments, comfort is the
least thing to be consider im~
proper ideas of beauty being the
guiding star. To have waist mora
slender than God gave her and out
of proportion to the rest of her body,
she incases herself in corsets, which
not only cause too much heat over
the vital organs where it is not need
ed, but cramp the stomach and lungs,
thereby causing an abnormal condi>
tion OF these organs, thus mater al-
ly affecting the health. Fancy a
race>horse who was expected to
equal Or outstrip his fellows, having
band of whale bone and steel fast-
ened around him, until it made him
feel as though be could not eat full
meafcr expand hi hAlgs. / rather
think he would fair tto take the purse
and metaphorically be classed among
the weaker sex.
A woman's long trailing skirts are
supported by the hips instead of the
shoulders, terribly taxing the back
the cut of the dress so confines the
arms that it tires her to lift them
high enough to comb her hair, which
must be "trizzed" and "puffed" and
"spit- curled" and "banged' and with
a lot of borrowed stuff added to
what nature gave her, punched up on
her head, until it is wonder the
poor brain don't rebel at having its
outer covering so detormed. Her
shoes must be the smallest into
hich she can crowd her feet and
then Der whole body is tired because
her feet are, and she feels irritable
without knowing why, and boxes the
children's ears, sco!ds her husband
and says unchristian things OF her
neighbor, whom the bible tells her to
love as herself. when good easy
slipper as big as her foot, would pre-
vent all this. How in the name Of
all that is philosophical, can a woman
study art or science or listen under
standingly to a lecture on geology
or astronomy, with her toes cramped
into a shoe two sizes too small tor
her ? ::It.is not in human nature 10
make the effort. All the comfort
she can get out Of it, is that some
one may say she has a small foot.
To seem what we are not, is what ls
cursing the world to day; ard in the
matter of dress, women fall under
the curse more than men, but not
otherwise. When will we ever learn
that Ito command ones own esteem,
is more essential, than to command
the esteem of the world"
In tie cold N Northern winters. |
have noticed men on the snowy icy
streets, with their wives; the men
with thick high topped boots, heavy
WOODEN garments, warm overcoat,
thick mittens, and cap drawn down
over their ears. The women with
hats as big as saucers on top OF their
herds, and getting out Of place with
every little puff of wind, wells over
their face to keep their complexion
from being injured, over body and
arms, about as much covering to keep
out the cold, as there would be in
one of the mems dress coats, thin
shoes and stockings, were all the pro
lection given to their lower extreml