The fountain : with jets of new meanings . false religion, feedingand flattering a false custom, insists peremptorily,with terrible penalties of excommunication from goodsociety, that girls shall forever dress unlike boys,shall studiously refrain from running and climbing,shall make no visible demonstrations of bodily vigor,and shall do nothing and be nothing inconsistentwith the established masculine rules of feminine pro-priety. The dress of a girl is constructed so that it is cer-tain to trammel her limbs, pervert her growth, derangethe functions of the bodily organs, and in truth en-danger
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . false religion, feedingand flattering a false custom, insists peremptorily,with terrible penalties of excommunication from goodsociety, that girls shall forever dress unlike boys,shall studiously refrain from running and climbing,shall make no visible demonstrations of bodily vigor,and shall do nothing and be nothing inconsistentwith the established masculine rules of feminine pro-priety. The dress of a girl is constructed so that it is cer-tain to trammel her limbs, pervert her growth, derangethe functions of the bodily organs, and in truth en-danger the safety of her physical existence. Heryounger brother can freely and fearlessly climb hill-sides, race through the wildwoods, leap fences, andplay like other darlings on the bosom of Nature. But only dare to let her go outwith her brother, and lo!owing to her dress, she fallsheadlong over the straightgate of pharisaical propri-ety, and is providentiallysaved, if her beautiful lifeis not forever crushed againstthe rocks of a blind and. LET HER FOLLOW THE FASHIONS. bigoted custom. MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 27 Nature, who is our graceful arid ever-lovingmother, infallibly teaches her children the right wayand the whole Truth. She teaches her girls that it istheir highest duty to become whatever they can be-come, and to do whatever they can do ; the criterionof right being, that the result of such being and doingis genuine happiness to themselves and lasting benefitto mankind. n <£kr^Sl«5l i i vl Wf L^^D^^^^^^S i ??.:? ^^^^^^^^:^^ MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS SOMETIMES NEED WASHING AND COMBING. Different ambitions and different aspirations burnwithin different temperaments. Sex does not infalliblydetermine the nature and quality of this ambition, oraspiration ; neither is it possible for mere sex to in-dicate and limit and establish the sphere of its mosteffective manifestation. The masculine positive temperaments, which are
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