Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-14
THE GIRL OF THE TINE,

1ne Ed1aES Sne Is Eaught-Rer EnSlaVe"
ment for Fashions Folbles.
Nancy Willard Covell, before Massachusetts
- Suffrage Association
All that girls are taught is to be pref
ty, and hide their faults, and read love
stories, and crochet, and make sponge
cake until some one asks them to marry
So the poor creatures, through fear that
they will miss their chances and fail to
marry, beg in very early to pinch them
selves in some places and pad them
selvesin others. Sometimes they wear
clothing enough to founder ship, and
again it is pronounced "lovely" to APP
pear without any to speak Of. With the
injunction ringing in their ears, "What-
ever you do be 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 unfortr-
nate day when Paul or somebody else
said the JOY of woman was her hair.
What nasneless and untold fortunes has
this appendage to the huMan body not
been subjected to? It has been filled
with arats" and MICE" heroically pulled
out by the roots to make the forehead
high, glued to the forehead with extract
Of ounce seed, and again brought over
the eyes in tangled snares. 1t has been
curled with over-hot irons, and then al
lowed to float free far down the back;
it has been pulled, and frizzled, and
powdered, and curled, and CREASED,
and banged-done up high or low, made
longer or shorter, or died black or
blonde-in strict accordance with the
caprice of the tickle goddess of fashion
Does the Grecian bend require them to
look like a detected monkey, straight
way they become limp il body, and
chatter that they do not do it because
It is zfashion--it is perfectly natural to
them. To-day they drag innumerahIc
yards OF dry goods through the streets,
and tomorrow they appear in tie backs
50 close that it is at the risk of their
lives that they attempt to board vail
road train. Now the head is surmoun-
ted by 9 bonnet the size of postage
stamp, and then one larger than an UNI
brella Som etimes women are sup
~ AAtsS q stilA 1ISll everybody,
no matter how slender, grows broader
than 9 donkey with panniers. Then
hips are abolished and no trace of them
can be discovered If snakes and bugs
become fashionable as ornaments, the
snakes and bugs become "perfectly
lovely 10y and the very girl who shrieked
ct the sight of q spider, Shippers. "thay
a are Just too Lowell for anything.p When
n1desecent beads become fashionable,
one ne. has only to ,sait little and every
Woman becomes q walking rainbow.
Now card IS the rage, and then gold.
now on mits, and then twelve button
gloves, nov pleatings, and then rufies !;
now hens and then facing; nov waists
are long and the ribs are laced down
until they adhere to the liver. and the
waist gets shorter and an opportunity
y gwen to- breathe Ia short. woman's
esnslayement BIZ fashion has resolved
We f I. her INTO an eternal game of wig
Wag and until she escapes this bond
age there Is no mental lie fo,rr her. All
this, the speaher cssontendea. ID the out.
growth ct the sssiolsnr 81 man ID not
giving woman - oppor tsunity Is develop
herself mentally and insnot aiyiinr her
/ 4 social osition equal With his own.