, 1884-06-26
WOMAN AND HOME.
A s'Free Lance" Tales a Tilt at
Fancy ork" Fclly.
Pretty Women and PIain---Concern-
Ing Children---A New Industry
ON WomRn's
FoIIies and FoibIes.

At the annual meeting OF the National
Woman Suffrage association of Massachusetts
in B ston Tuesday, Miss Nancy Willard
Covell, speaking on "The Reason Why" said
that she had been callei up,n 10 FL the un-
welcome part OF telling some Of the follies
and foihlys OF woman.
In speaking Of the condition of women
of to-day. she said all that girls are taught is
10 lie pretty and hide their fnults and
read love stories and crochet and make
sponge cake, until some one asks them
to marry. SO the POOR creatures through
fear they will miss their chances and fail TO
marry, begin very early TO pinch themselves
in some places and pad themselves in others.
Sometimes they wear clothing enough to
founder a ship, and again it is pronounced
"~loveiNn 10 appear without any to speak Of.
With the Injunction ringing in their ears,
Whatever 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.
1t was an unfortunate day when Paul or
somebody else snid that the joy OF woman
was her hair. What nnmeless and Untold
t~ortures has this appeudnge Of the human
lody not been subjected tol 1t has been
filed with "rnts' and mice" heroicaily
pulled out by the roots to make the forehead
nigh, glued to the forehead with extract Of
ounce seed, ard again brought over the eyes
in tangled snares- 1t has been curled with
over-hut lions, and then allowed to float free
far down the hack; " has been pulled and
frizzed and powdered and curled, and CREASED
and banged, done up high or low, made
longer or shorter, or dyed black or blonde, in
strict accordance with the caprice of the
tickle goddess OF fashion.
DOES the Grecinn bend require them to
look like a detected monkey, straightway
they lecome lump IN body, and chatter that
| thoy do not do it because it Is fashiUn-it is
perfectly natural for them. To-day they
drag immeasurable yards of dry goods
through the streets, and tomorrow they APP
pear in tie-bncks so close that it is ut the risk
of their lives that they attempt TO board a
railroad train. Now tue head is surmounted
by Il bonnet the size of a postage stamp, and
then by one larger than an umbrella. Some
times women are supposed to have Ii ps, and
then over body, no matter how slender,
grows broader than a donkey with paniers.
Then hips are abolished, and no trace of them
can lie discovered.
II snakes and bugs become fashionable us
ornaments, tic snakes and bugs become
HTerfectly lovely, " and the very girl who
shrieked at the sight Of Il spider, shippers,
"Ihey are just too lovely for anyth ng."
When iridescent bends become fashionable,
one has only to whit II little, and every
woinun becomes a walking rainbow Now
cardinal is the rage, end then old gold;
now mitts, and then iwclve-button gloves;
now p~lentings, and then %rufles; now
hons, md then fncings; now waists
arc long and the ribs arc laced down
until they adhere TO the liver, and then waists
get shorter, and an opportunity is given to
breathe. In short, wOmpn's ens,avemcnt by
fashion has resolved Ifo for her into an
eternal game OF "wigwaZ," aud until she
escapes this bondage there is no mental life
for her. All this, the speaker contended, is
not giving woman an opportunity u develop
herself mentally and in not giving her a
social position equal to his own.