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133 FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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beneath returned these to . crin unsi oline htl . " unclean Was it and only most the female unhealthy monstrosities n was , in favor the of which iration no single heat g recommendation the y , craniums , and can " soil be adduced , the shoulders ? or did of the they " Sun not confine King , " persp ,
immortal of the great "Spectator conqueror , ? " of less Do Blenheim wise they not , even aye still , even long in their of after the having liest very form writers been and abj of under ured the
bthein most respects , , linger ug of circumstances y legal , luminaries which must when render with all them their least faculties bearable on the , to stretch oppress in , the crowded brows
ill and -ventilated high lieels courts solel ; , they y feminine need , the violations utmost cool of - the headedness laws of ? cleanliness Were , powder and stock round '
health ? Or was the torturing , tight , stiff ever clasped a womans fashions importance throat ? is Althoug to assuredl being h y it in a is the thoroug true mode that hl th y we an human are men apt not do generall , yet a mere to y follow to fe attach minine even rather weakness irrational more .
And however an individual womanand one certainly by no means likely to be inion accepted "before by her men sisters conclude as a representative us , to be inferior woman beings , may because set forth a such greater an
number op , among us than among them may be found ready to adopt foolish and pernicious sensible ( for customs there with thousands regard still to in dress Israel , thoug who have h rejected not bowed "by the the more knee
are to a set the -off Baal on of the excessive other side crinoline that some ) , they of their would own do well ordinary to bear habits in mind in other , as , less If the lad
matters " Cage "— are adopted neither , after more all , inoffensive often only because nor her dangerous husband . or -brothers y do 's next not like to her to see her whom " not she look is passing like other disp peop lays le "— too annoys much the of her person ankles who and sits
or , , in his even solel nei exposes y ghbours for his her , b own to y the banishing gratification peril of him a , fiery makes from death him the ; frequentl the drawing gentleman - y room an annoyance ' , s leads cigar his , constitu him indul to into ged all
tion has disreputable . laid It is the society steel breach , petticoats beclouds of the golden his as it faculties would rule , , lay " and Moderation open seriousl almost y in injures all any things thing , ' to which the - open
condemnation of the moralist and the sanitarian . Kept within due limits all a few larger small than rings the of mass elasti of c steel skirts do which not make had been the circumference worn for year of s before a dress they at far healthand better
were tioners calculated adopted so to strong , afford while ly that b approve eing " perpetual much . They li and ghter air less , bath they impede " are which involve the eminen more walk than in t medical delicacy y do cling practi It ing is
robes onlwhen , and when anded properl to y an shaped enormous size disposed when ladies bul no ge themselves . out to the y ridiculous exp extent of become a circumference , liabl of to four the , five severest , or even criticism a greater and
number must be of left yards to endure , that they the bitterest justl sarcasms y e of the satirist . Most things , be either used or abusedand steel hoops are no exception to this general
throws rule may with ; the while discredit abuse exaggerated are apt temperance to and defeat , indiscriminate their We own think end censures , a as just teetotalism confounding judgment sometimes the would use
on . _decide that a small crinoline may claim to "be at must least be as held excusable the as sensible a single
o f gar bot h but sexes that to feminine be as dang excess erous in and petticoats as reprehensible as mascu by line excess in
tobacco .
133 Facts And Scraps.
133 FACTS AND SCRAPS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/61/
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