. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. gouofhaUl llciidiug* Chats With Farmers' Wives and Daughters—No. I O. Economical Young Women. t-^^HIRTY-oue young larlies in Wai'saw, Kentucky, have signed a new kind of pledge, which reads : We, the undersigned ladies of Warsaw, desiring by rur example to promote econ- omy and to discountenance extravagance, and thereby lighten in some measure the burdens of our husbands, fathers, sous and brothers, by prudent re
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. gouofhaUl llciidiug* Chats With Farmers' Wives and Daughters—No. I O. Economical Young Women. t-^^HIRTY-oue young larlies in Wai'saw, Kentucky, have signed a new kind of pledge, which reads : We, the undersigned ladies of Warsaw, desiring by rur example to promote econ- omy and to discountenance extravagance, and thereby lighten in some measure the burdens of our husbands, fathers, sous and brothers, by prudent retrenchment in our household expenses therefore, pledge our words of hon- or, each to the other, that we will not, during the period of one year from the 1st of Jlay 1875, purchase any material for wearing ap- parel, the cost of which shall exceed twenty- five cents per yard. And shall further jiromise to observe a strict economy in all our house- hold purtiuances, and cheerfully add by those delicate sacrifices to the general stock of home comforts—too often dispensed with for the frivolous oufside adornment of the bod}' alone. Now that has tlie true ring to it and is just what should be done, either singly or in num- bers, by our women of California, whose ex- penses for dress and useless finery astonishes the world. For we have no aristocracy here, compelling a certain style of court-dress and the like. No, our free country is " governed "by the people and for the peoiile" they say. I should judge so indeed, by a peep into fashionable society and its devouring, ab- sorbing, expenditures for dress and style! No poor girl, however refined or delicate her organization, however iuteUigently endowed, or lovely in face and form, can command re- spect, or enter society of refinement and cul- ture or wealth without money, in her own right or her family. She must dress well or wealthy people will not notice her—save with a pitying nod of recognition—and to such
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