ADVICE FOR YOUNG LADIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 October 1942, Page 2

ADVICE FOR YOUNG LADIES

The following extract is from a sermon by the celebrated Dr. John Dow to the young ladies of his flock: ; “The buxom, bright-eyed, rosy- ’ cheeked lass Who can darn a stocking, mend trousers, make her own i frocks, command a regiment of pots > and kettles, feed pigs, chop wood, • milk the cows, wrestle with the boys, ? and be a lady withal in company, is just the sort of girl for me and for * any worthy man to marry. But you. i ye pining, moping, lolling, screwed- : up. wasp-waisted. yu tty-faced, con- ; sumption-mortgaged. music-murder-

ing. novel-devouring daughters of fashion and idleness, you are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally speaking, more liberty and less fashionable restraint; more kitchen and less parlour; more leg exercise and less sofa; more pudding and less piano; more frankness and less mock modesty; more breakfast and less bustle. Loosen yourselves a little, enjoy more liberty and less restraint by fashion, breathe the pure atmosphere of freedom, and become something as lovely and beautiful as the God of nature designed.”