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Exposure Of Popular Fallacies

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
April
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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" A woman should ahvaya be tieatly and elegantiy dressed; sho has no excuse 'or appearing otherwise !" Has he not sir? What do you cali those five little aniraals io pink aprous md pinker cheoks, who hang around from " morn till dewey eve?" What do you cali the baby who ahvays wakes ust wheu he auglit to be asleep, just whcn he ougiit to keep still? What do you cali the sotip which must be seasoned to a grnin of pepper, and the pud ding, WDich must be baked jtist so, or there will be trouble among the lords of creation? Tho coat which naast bemendod? Tho oravttta which need only a stitch? The china that must be washed? The carpets which must be svvept. We should cali these very rospectable excuses for a little dishabille now and thenl " A woman gadding about is ono ol tho most disagreiable sights in the world I hor place is at home 1" Wo are not sure of that eitbor; not if she wears a pretty bonnot, and has cheeks hke the eunny 8ide of a peach, and ripe, cherry kind of lips. We've Been a great mauy more disagroeable thinge, and confessa weakness for bright cyes and prettv hair. Undoubtedly her placo is at home, but that's no reason she should shut herself up there until she looks liko a chorvy stalk or a lump of chr.lk. Who would buy the coal and calicó, tho marketing and the new music, if a woman is never to set hor foot over tho threahold? The man that wroto that heresy never kept house, we know, . "Woman should always bocalmand componed, liko a peaceful andscape or a seronoly ghining star. Her whole manner should oarry out the idea oi rest and repose." All very well if tho gentleman :n possession 'of these "screnely shining oyes" would allow (hem to remain up among the elcrtids, high above all sublunory oils and turmoils. But what is the luminary to do when husband brings lomo a friend to dinner on Monday, vhen the " wash " is in high procedure, vhen an extra chicleen has to bo broilel, and the best table-cloth wliiskod on at three minutes and a qimrter's iotice? Has our cr:tic a riglit to complain if liis wifo mokes her appearancc with face redder than tho pickled beetw, and manner decidedly fiurried? " A woman should novcr, under any circumstancee whatever, loso hor temper," Might aa well teil the wind not to hlovv on a March day, or the ruin not to come down in April. It does them good to " explodt! " occasionally. A woman to be good for any thing mut have as much spice and ppnrkle in her as a bottlo of champagne, and iftho cork does como out once in a whife, with a bang, why that don't deprecíate the Vftlll6 of the goods. But let men preftch - it don't nmount to any thing after all. We hold them captivo by every oneof their dickey Ptrings and coat buttons - by the rents in their stocking, and toothaches ind headar.hea thcy want to lm nnrsod hrougb. They cinnot do without as, md all this gncd advice is only a very natural cbafing imder the invisible chains. On tho whole, we think it aburd to take tho ulightest notkreof it. - Talk away, "gentlemen," you won't lurt our feelings.

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Old News
Michigan Argus