Wichita eagle., 1886-10-01
WOMAN AND HOME.
SKETCH OF THE CAREER OF A VERY
STRANGE YOUNG WOMAN.

Women OF Turkey-Swiss Girls - Hint.
and Helps Concerning Children-Hov
to Walk-Ways of Women-Household
Drudgery-Notes and Items.
Once upon time there lived a very strange
young woman. AS child she had been pecu
har. AS young woman her peculiarities
became more marked, and by the time she
grew to be rlatron she became quite widely
known for her idiosyncrasies. "Pieces" Sot
into the paper about her. Her "pastor" used
her as an examplc-whether good or bad, you
must JUICE for yourself.
Other women TALKED about her whenever
they got n chance.
Now, what do you suppose al this was
about? Just this: When that strange young
woman was littlo girl she awoke the spirit
Of the inGuisitor in the breast of her mother
by fatty refusing to have her straight brown
hair braided into pigtails or twisted into
brown paper humps every Saturday and We'd
nesday night. "If God had meant her to have
curly hair lie would have made it curly" was
her argument or sophistry or serse Such
dreadful sacri!eye y-as straightway taken in
hand by her well-Inesning mother, who told
her that God wouldn't love her if she didn't
obey her mother and have her hair curlcd for
her, and otherwise behave herself as a little
girl should. Tho mother was the biggest,
The hair was curled, but not without much
lanentation.
The next struggle against the powers that
be came when she was set before a pair Of
stays and told TO get into them Up came the
old argument-if it had been intended she
should have had shell like turtle Or a waist
like q wasp, it would la. Q been donc without
her interference. Despite her objections she
wcs cncascd in her distasteful shell and the
strings given oae pull more each day. One
night week she slept in them. The only re-
lief she had during this period was an obliging
tendency OF the strings to break. As a conse-
quence of rigorous training or by nature this
young girl at 1G was very slight. This was
the cause Of now struggle no less divided
Extraneous developments Of one sort and an
other were brought forward il turn ancitheir
use requested. A refusal Oh the plea of being
born thin was no use. They were applied and
nothing inappropriate seen in a young girl
with q piu:ip figure and thin face and arms
like q child's. "Othcr girls wore 'iinprovers,'
why shouldn't shcs'
Thus matters went on until the poor Girl
was Is. 4 sensible man offered to marry her
and she accepted-throuSh her mother, who
told her to do so. In truth the girl was little
loath. This constant nagging and worrying Of
years to mako her look and appear what she
was not, and what she did rot care to look,
had had the worst Of all possible effects. It
had made a sweet tempered, affcctionato girl
OF Is glad to get away from her mother to a
home of her own.
Once her own IlistresS-at least as far as
her rafment wcllt-our strange young crea-
ture began Ike q butterfly to come OFT from
her cocoon. She shed her wat,dings and Ler
padding and her little rotundities She hung
her switch" up in the apple tree for tho birds
10 make their nests WITH and hung whole rolls |
Of cotton wool beside it. She wore the shoes |
that fitted her feet and sho let out her stay
aces.
do not believe that woman ever rad q |
happier honeymoon than did She
This principle Of comfort and her ideas of |
beauty she kept with her, and it was this that
made her looked upon as peculiar" Married
1t Is she was handsome as ever at So She
recognized in fact that even beautiful woman
las one attribute in common wi h o kitten, o
,olt OF n baby. Her stomach may be prosaic
organ. but it is more useful to her when it |
comes down to tooveryday happiness than is her
back hair or her hoopskirt. Slo had her prin-
,iples and sho determined to live up to them. |
She did rot believe that asteS or powders did |
, bad complexion any good. She would not |
use them.
She did net think because everybody else
wore their hair in tremendous waterfalls"
On the back OF their heads that she must needs
.ako hers down from the crown, VIXEN it
oo,led well and was becoming to her. She
I'D not do it either.
She did not think that just because she was
hin she needed TO swaddle hcrself to look fat.
She dressed comfortable, ate good things at
/ proper time looked out for her digestion and
Ter temper, and at the end of q year was as
plump as D harvest partridge.
And when she got "fat," as her feminine
friends called it, she did not lie awake nights
wishing to bc thin again. She simply liked it,
md kept honestly Ut work tryi < TO keep her
GOOD looks IS long ~ possible. We cannot fol-
ow her much moro closely or much longer.
At 45 wo VIII leave her. She WAS still round
nd straight. Sho could wear corscts or 90
without, just as she pleased, for she had never
worn them tight enough OF long enough to
lestroy the muscles that surrounded her nat
lral waist Mother was ker roso blotched or
ler hands red from any such reason. Her
lair, not much thinner than it lad been be-
,orc-thauks to the exquisite care she had al
Tays given twas sill arranged in the soft,
orctty, becoming way SIZE had always worn
t, modified but very slightly 10 suit the fash
oas Of the day. Fer skin was still pink and
White, a blessing Is much due to long years
If perfect health IS to never ceaSS, care.
She had taken carc of her teeth ard nails with
IS much concern for tho last ten years as when
nc was bride, ard her husband was prouder
# her than when he married her. Now, do
pitc all tlii, woTaon did not approve Of her
mid dcrunciatioas Of fashionable foibles, but
till persisted il calling her strange" "pecu-
iar,' AMI > On Such is the inconceivabls
blindness OF the sex to real beauty and COM
non serse--New York Graphic.
Something About Boys.
A rightly trained boy-and by rightly
-oired | don't mean a hoy that is diSciplined