Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1886-07-16
Our GirI's Danger.

What kind of material ror good
Christian wives aud mothers have we
among girls brought up in fashion
able idlenesS. unaccuStomed ever to
active housework, or any form of
useful labor, and who live most of
the time in shaded rooms, and there
fore have little chance for physical
development, and who, before their
physical bodies are fully developed,
are subjects to stays, corsets, lac
ings and tight dresses, till the most
horrible deformity results, and the
very existence of our race is threat
ened; unaccustomed to labor, to sun
light, imperfectly developed, with
the most fearful deformed waist,
with laboring hearts and lungs, and
with the abdominal organs crowded
down on the reproductive organs.
causing the most troublesome and
serious dispfacements and diseases,
what chance have such girls to
become competent wives and moth
ers?
A sensible man looks with PAIN
aid unspeakable sadness on a small
waist. The man who will tell wo-
man he is pleased with her deformed
waist, will do to stand by the side of
the woman who will from similar
motives, tell q man she Is delighted
with the smoke from good cigar,
and with the smell of good tobacco
the intelligent, sensible woman looks.
beyond the present, and abhors the
smoke from such poisonous weed.
How can woman who is worthy to
be the wife of good man tell any
man she is delighted with the smoke
and smell of tobacco, and thus en-
courage him to spend his strength,
health and money in indulging in
habit which stands next to using in
drinks2
In our estimation, the prevalent
custom of allowing girls to grow up
IN fashionable idIeness, and often
not even requiring them to assist in
and mothers often max
ng slaves of themselves by doing
hat which 1T is so necessary the
should do, in order that
hey may become well developed and
healthy, are potent in preventing the
development and impairing the health
If our girls.
l am earnest in my assertion that
light dressing is the chief cause
which is so rapidly destroying the
native American woman's ability to
lurse her children. "My daughter
loes not dress too tightly" exclalms
he mother, sit is her natural form,
'ou see." Natural, indeed! If so
is inherited from the perverted
orm Of the mother-the deformlty ;
# the parent visited Oh the daughter.
t is manifest to every careful OBJ {
erver that our native women, as a
ule, are not proportionally as well
developed as the men. 1t is, there
ore, certain that they are violating
he laws of physical development and
Iealth to a far greater extent than
he men. And the misfortune is that
uch violations affect the unborn of
10Th sexes; the infant and the little
,oys and girls, and the older girls,
s we'll as the adult women. In
many parts of the country the ladies
re striving nobIy and well to help
he men in enactlng laws to prevent
he manufacture and sale of intoxl-
:ating drinks. Cannot the gentlemen
their kindness by striving
o pass laws to prevent the publica-
ion and sale of the fashion plates
which contain such miserable carl
ures OF the female form, and which
inter our homes but to pervert and
lestroyI our young girls? We can
hardly realize the injury these pub
ications are doing. Ledger.