The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-30
WOMAN AND HOME.
SKETCH OF THE CAREER OF A VERY
STRANGE YOUNG WOMAN.


Women of Turkey-swiss Girls - Hints
and Helps Concerning Children-How
To walk-Ways of women-HousehoId
Drudgery-NOtes and Items.
Once upon a time there lived q very strange
young woman. As child she had been pecu-
liar. As young woman her peculiarities
became more marked and by the time she
grew to be matron she became quite widely
known for her idiosyncrasies. pieces got
into tho paper about her. Her pastor" used
her as All example-whether good or bad, you
must judge for yourself
Other women talked about her whenever
they got chance.
Now, what do you suppose all this was
about! just this: When that strange young
woman little girl she awoke the spirit
of the inquisitor in the breast of her mother
by fatty refusing to have her straight brown
hair braided into pigtails or twisted into
brown p,ip,r Jumps every Saturday and We'd
ncslay night If God had meant her to have
curly hair lie would have made it curly" was
her argument or sophistry or sense. Such
dread. al s:l,.rieSe was straightway taken in
hand y her well-meaning mother, who told
her ;,iIt God wouldn't love her if she didn't
obcy her mother and have her hair curled for
her, and otherwise behave herself n little
girl should The mother was the biggest.
The hair was curled, but not without much
lamcatation.
The Hex: struggle against the powers that
be caI-;c when she was set before pair OF
stays and told to get into them. Up came the
old argumcnt-if it had been intended she
should have had a shell like "A turtle or a waist
like n wasp. it would have been done without
her Interference. Despite her objections she
was encased in her distasteful shell and the
strings given one pull more each day. One
night n week she slept in them. The only re
lief she had duri.l:; this period was an obligins
tendeacy % The strings to break. AS a conse-
quencc % .,DioC' training. or by nature this
young girl III Ii Very slight. This was
the cause Of n II, struggle no less divided.
ExtcaneuuS dew. ,rIents of one sort and an
other were brouc!. forward III turn and their
use requested. \ T. susal on the plea vi being
born thii y:;ls no They were applied and
nothin; Inappropriate seen i'll n young girl
with n pump iie,,,i, and thin face and arms
like IL ,h:!ds. "O..!nr girls wore 'improvers,'
why SlpJIl;ln't she:
Tins matters we, on until. the poor girl
wa; /. =. sensible I::an offered to marry her
and she a - ID. .ou,h her mother, who
told her - slo 80 J.. ruth the girl was little
lCatii. ~ tOn>ta..t ..aS:sing and worrying of
Year, { :sIi'-" hrr xxx and appear what she
was ..c ..::Ji v!i;.. he did not care to look,
Iiitt !.-!st 1t Np-'s a Ipnsibic IL
hail r.; e sweet mperel, affectionate girl
of Il ..:.d To- 1T as.. : from her mother to a
hoInu - l.,r ov:n
Ont.c l.:r own mi. lCss-at least as far rs
her rlimcnt wen;-0ur strange young crea-
ture began ike iL.tcrfiy to como out from
her co,,ooi S.c lcI her waddngs and her
paddings and her .ttlc rotundities- She hung
her ''swii''i' up the apple tree for the birds
to make their ne; with, and hung whole rolls
Of 10 10 fl,a
that fitted her fe. and she let out her stay
laces
/ do not beli. that woman ever had
happier honeymoon than did she.
This princip,, II comfort and her ideas of
beauty she l;C,,, with her, and il was this that
made her lcokC-. n ,oL a. peculiar" Married
at Is she ha.: lono ever at -. She
recognized in fact that even beautiful woman
has one att. Lutte in ,a.i.rlon wi h n kitten,
colt or n baby. Her =, ....4-,,I may be prosaic
organ, lat = i; more - I'll to her when it
comes dowI tocveryday l.. ooincss than is her
back hair o. hcr hoopssir: She had her prin-
ciples a,.I ,.c determined live up to them.
She did not believe that pa@,cs or powders did
a bad complexion any gocsl. she would not
use t..cil.
She did rot think because everybody else
wore their hair III tremendous waterfalls
on the back of their heads that she must needs
take hers down from the crown, when it
looked well and was becoming to her. She
did not do it either.
She did not think that just because she was
thin she needed to swaddle herself to look fat.
She dressed comfortable, ate good things at
proper time, looked out for her digestion and
her temper, and at the end of n year was as
plump as q harvest partridge.
And when she got fat" as her feminine
friends called it, she did not lie awake nights
wishing to lie thin again. She simply liked it,
and kept honestly at work trying to keep her
good looks rs long Us possible. We cannot fol-
low her much more closely or much longer.
At ~ we Will leave her. She was still round
and straight She could wear corsets or go
without, jus; she pleased, for she had never
worn them tight enough or long enough to
destroy the MUSCLES that surrounded her nat
ural wait. Neither was her nose blotched or
her hams rcd from any such reason Her
hair. rot much thinner than it had been be-
fore-th:aks to the exquisite care she had al
ways given it-was still arranged in the soft,
pretty, becoming way she had always worn
it, modified but very slightly to suit the fash
ions of the day. Her skin was still pink and
white, n blessing as much due to long years
of perfect health as to never ceasinS care
She had taken care of her teeth and nails with
as mu In concern for the last ten years when
she was bride, and her husband was prouder
of her than when he married her. Now, de-
spite all this, women did not approve of her
mild denun, iations of fashionable foibles, but
still persisted in calling her strange" "pecu-
liar" and 81 on Such i the inconcevable
blindness OF the sex TO real beauty and COM
mon sansc-New York Graphic.
The Women of Turkey.
The fcrijcc, or wrap, which all Turkish
women Urc ili3ed to wear, is the most abon-