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Does my love of Dress interfere with the true objects of woman-life? This is the questioning mind which every young woman should possess. Now let me ask, Does not your love of Dress lead you from the great ends of woman-life? Are you not taken captives by the glitter of Dress? sold bond-slaves to your bonnets and shoes?
Beauty ought to inspire rather than weaken its possessor, ought to elevate rather than depress her. And it would, if woman-life was rightly appreciated, if the woman-soul was rightly taught, and the woman-heart of humanity rightly awakened to its grand capacities and duties. Woman is not alone to blame for this strange and wicked fire kindled on the altar of Beauty. Man is as guilty as she.
And our clergy, sir our fashionable clergy! Surely some tremendous upheaval will shake to its foundations the Church wherein such things are possible a Church that is more worldly than the world! And then the woman-life of the Church, see how it is thrown away.
Take fifty of the plainest young women from the same circles in our town, and place them under similar circumstances, and, if I mistake not, their behavior would be much more genteel and becoming, their conversation much more interesting and intelligent, and their feelings much more refined and noble. Am I wrong in this supposition? If I am wrong, I have read woman-life to a poor purpose.
I'm going to see a patient just out of the city, and the drive will be a charming one. Nothing would please me better than to have your company." There was a vein of humor, and a spirit of "don't care" in Mrs. Carleton, which had once made her independent, and almost hoydenish. But fashionable associations, since her woman-life began, had toned her down into exceeding propriety.
Just as she had been made, and just where she had been put, a girl with the questions of woman-life before her in these days of restless asking and uncertain reply, with her lot cast here, in this very crowding, fermenting, aspiring, great New England metropolis, in the hour of its most changeful and involved experience, she brought the divine talisman of her nature to bear upon the nearest, most practical point of the wide tangle with which it came in contact.
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