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Show What Women Should be Tadght. I wish youDg women could be taugbt that it does not add a cubic to the statue of a bouse to call it a 'residence;" that a church or even a meetirjg-hnuee is as venerable as the "sacred edifice;" that it ie no more genteel to say "retire" than to go to bed; that the garment so fondly, ! slowly epvered wilh Bide plartiDgs, so coldly aod quickly frayed out amODg the paving Btones; is really a gown and not a "promenade costume;" that it need not bring a blush to tbe oneek of even Mr. Podsnap' young person to say leg instead of "limb," whn leg is meant; that'supper at an evening party is not "the entertainment," entertain-ment," and that there are weir founded objections to the use ol "nicely" as an adjective describing the state of one's health. "To clothe1 iow creeping wilh fine language," said old Fuller, "is not fine fancy, hut flat foolery." It rather load--i ban raises a wren to fasten the feathers of an ostrich to her wings. |