Fashionable Women

Fashion kills more women than toil and sorrow. Obedience to fashion is a greater transgression of the laws of woman's nature, a greater injury to her physicial and mental constitution, than the hardships of poverty and neglect. - The slave woman at her task will live and grow old, and see two or three gen erations of her mistresses fade and pass away. The washerwoman, with scarce a ray of hope to cheer her in her toils, will live to see her fashionable sisters all die around her. The kitchen maid is hearty and stroug, when her lady has to be nurged-like a sick baby. It is asad truth that fashion-pampered women are almost worthless for all the good ends of' human life. They have but little force of character ; they have still less power of tnorsl will, and quite as little physical energy. They live for no great purpose in life ; they aceomplish no worthy ones. They are only doll-forms in the hands of milliners and servants. to bo ciressed and fed to order. They dress nobody ; they feed uobody; they ïnstruet nobody ; they bless nobody. Tliey writo no books ; they set no rich examples of virtuo and womauly life. If they reur children, seivants and nurses do all, save to give them birth. And when reared, what are they ? What do they ever imount to, but weaker scions of the old stock ? Who ever heard of a fashiouable woir.an's child exhibinng any virtue and power of mind for whieh it beeame eminent ? Read the biogrsiphies of our great and good men and women. Not one of theui had a fashif)uable mother. They nearly all sprang from strong-mindüd women, who had as little to do with fashion as with the changiug clouds.