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influence which it is their special and highest
prerogative to wield.
Now, “ gentle reader,” pray don’t misunderstand
me, and break out into any tantrums on the
supposition that I am railing against pretty dresses,
pretty bonnets, pretty ribbons, or any other really
pretty decorations for pretty women. On the
contrary, I maintain that beauty is one of the primary
natural attributes of woman. It is a gift she has
received from her Creator which she should most
religiously cherish and cultivate. Due and proper
attention to dress is one of her first duties. It
is a dutv that she owes to herself, to all around
her, and more especially to those who are the
nearest and dearest to her. The wife who neglects
her home dress fails in one of her duties to her
husband.
But in her study and practice of dress she should
be an artist; she should select the style best suited
to her figure, complexion, &c., to her means of
expenditure, her health, and active duties; and
having determined that style should abide by it,
only making such modifications as are truly
artistic or useful improvements. The “ duck of
a bonnet ” of to-day would not then become the
“fright” of to-morrow, and the fashion of women’s
dress would then be objects of interest and admira-
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