Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — Fashionable Foolishness. [ARTICLE]

Fashionable Foolishness.

There is no modern fashionable notion quite so absurd as the generally received idea that to be beautiful and attractive, a woman must possess a wan, spirituelle face and a figure of sylph-llke proportions—a fragility in nine cases out ot ten the result of disease. By many fashionable belles it is considered a special compliment to be spoken of as frail and delicate. They forget that the naturally delicate face and petite figure are very different from the pale and disees ’-stricken faces that meet us’ in the city thoroughfares, look out from the luxuriant carriages of wealth, and glido-.languidly through our crowded drawing-roduM. If disease were unfashionable, as it ought to be, not a lady in the land but would take every possible precaution to secure the fresh, blooming face and wellrounded figure that only health can give. Ladies should remember that, much as gentlemen may profess to admire the tace and form paled and emaciated by disease, when they choose a wife they prefer a blooming, healthful, buoyant-spirited woman. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is the acknowledged standard remedy for female diseases and weaknesses. It has the two-fold advantage of curing the local disease and imparting a vigorous tone to tire whole system. It is sold by druggists. Fitch’s Heart Corrector for sale by druggists. Cbkw Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.