. Demorest's illustrated monthly and Mme Demorest's mirror of fashions, 1865 April . l the virtues. Be gentle, therefore, and amiable, butbe strong and truthful, also, never sacri-ficing the greater to the le-^s, no matterhow strong may be the desire, and thetemptation to do so. Men are as farremoved as possible from the grandeurof Miltons conception, and women,therefore, need no longer accept them inthe place of God as the realization of allthat is good and wi^e and noble. In thisbu8y and money-getting age, men aresubjected to great temptations, and toevil influences from which women arealmos
. Demorest's illustrated monthly and Mme Demorest's mirror of fashions, 1865 April . l the virtues. Be gentle, therefore, and amiable, butbe strong and truthful, also, never sacri-ficing the greater to the le-^s, no matterhow strong may be the desire, and thetemptation to do so. Men are as farremoved as possible from the grandeurof Miltons conception, and women,therefore, need no longer accept them inthe place of God as the realization of allthat is good and wi^e and noble. In thisbu8y and money-getting age, men aresubjected to great temptations, and toevil influences from which women arealmost wholly exempt. Under thesecircumstances, women can and shouldtry to diffuse around them a purer moralatmosphere, aid them in preservingintegrity of soul and purpose, instead ofweakly yielding to a love of ease andluxury, content to stifle their convictionsof right and duty, willing to barter theglory of their womanhood for a house ina more fashionable street and a costlierbonnet. To be sincere, to be truthful,to be courageous in defending the right,is better than to be HAND-FEKDiNo.—The custom of bringing up chil-dren by the use of the bottle, or anything which canbe made to serve aa a substitute for mothers milk, is,we are sorry to aay, becoming more and more preva-lent, to the great detriment of the mother as well asthe child. The unnatural practice is partly caused bythe growing desire, on the part of women, to escapefrom the exactions involved in a faithful performanceof duty, partly by the generally wretched stateof their health, which has gradually deteriorateduntil not one \voman in ahundred can be set down asweU^ and at least one-fourth are confirmed injury to babies from the Iobb of their ttccufl- tomed nourishment cannot bo calculated; it ia notalone that this is the only food exactly adapted totheir wants, but that all norta of improper aubstitntesare j)roviiled by the ignoninre of nurses and serviint-girls to whom the helpless little
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