The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-03-21
THE GRE OF m TIME.
The Things She Ia TauSht-Hsr HnsiAys.
msnt for Fashion,s Forbes. NJ i

Ths Things She Ia TAuSht-Her EnslAys.
nsnt Tor Fashion's Forbes. Nc
Nancy Willard Covel, before Massachusetts
Suffrage Association.
Allthat girls are taught is to be pref
ty, and, hide their faults, and read love
stories, and crochet, and make spone
cake, until some N asks them to marry.
So the poor creatures, through fear that
they will miss their chances and fail to
marry, begin very early to pinch them
selves in some places and pad them
selves in others. Sometimes they wear
clothing enough to founder 8 ship, and
again it's pronounced lovely" to APP
pear without any to speak of. Withythe
injunction ringing n their ears, atWhat-
e you dobe pretty girls paint their
lips and crock their eyebrows, and take
opium to make their eyes soft,
and arsenic to make their
compilations clear. It was an unfortn.
nate day when Paul or somebody else
SAID thesloy of woman was her ha;sr
What nalnelesss and untold fortunes has
this appendage to the human body moi
been subjected to? 1T has been filled
with rats" and mice !" he~roically pulled
out by the roots! to make the forehead
high, glued tothe forehead with extract
q ounce seed, and again brought over
the eyes in tangled snares. 1t has Been
curled with oyer-hot irons, andthenxl-
owed to foat free far down the back:
~ mas Deer pulled, and frizzled, and
powdered, and curled, and creased,
and banged!done phighsor low, made
ionge OF shorter, or died black or
nde-m strict accordanfce, With Il the
Gapr1ce OF the tickle goddess of fashian.
Does the Grecian bend, require themto
look like a detected monkey, straight
way they become limp ii body, and
chatter TINT they do not do il because
It is fashion-it is perfectly natural to
them. To-day they drag innumerable
salds q dry goods through the streets,
and tomorrow they appear il tie, backs
50 close TINT it is at the risk Of their
ives that they attempt to board 4 rail
Ioad Tram. Now the head is surmoun-
sed py 2 bonnet the size d. 4 postage
s.Amp, and then one larger than an IN
Dreiis. Sometimes women are sup-
posed 70 have hips, andthen everybody,
no matter how slender, grows broader
INA . donkey with painters. Then
mp are abolished and no trece Of them
can be discovered. If snakes and bugs
become fashionable as ornaments, the
s aus1 and bugs become perfectly
toYely, 9 the very. girl who shrieked
~ me sight of 9 spider, shippers. atthhhy
are Just too lovely Tor anlythin9.v When
iridesecent beads become fashionsHe.
one has only 70 wait 4 little and eyery
Mcman becomes ., walking raiinko1W.
Nowcardinalis the rage, and tkenaoM.
aow NIT, and Tier twelvg-battpn
sloves, now pleatings, and then srnl y;
now mems, and then facing; now waists
are long and the ribs are laced down
uh.I they adhere 10 the liver, md die
Mals1 gets shorter, and An opportunity
= giyenst "a breathe. InySshort, @omanfs
s ~; BY fashion, has resolved
ne ior her into an eternalgameo 81 Wig
@ag, aud until she escapes this boni-
HIS mere is no mental lie Tor her. Ash;
$500 49,, sle speaker commended, is the ont
gaoW1h Ct the oppression 81 NM in moi
s,sang womana an Opportunity to develop
! as sas mentally, aud IN not giving her
5 7oclai position equal With his eMn.
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