Yet more; there can be no bad intentions,
there can be no evil consequences, where respectable and modest women
are not ashamed to acknowledge that they bundle. I am anxious to know
the truth for the purpose of correcting both the _misrepresentations_
that are abroad, and the _practices_ that prevail here. Bundling,
however, is known in other countries, where they have less excuse, and
in Wales where they do _not_ bundle, as I have said before, it is no
reproach for a woman to have had a child before marriage. It was so in
Russia after Catharine established her lying-in hospitals.
In the next number of _The Yankee_ (August 20th) there is the following
editorial paragraph:
BUNDLING.
There is a great outcry just now about the paper on bundling which
was in the last _Yankee_. Now this very outcry proves the want of
the very paper alluded to. The article is about bundling; and people
who imagine bundling to be what it is not, a highly improper and
unchaste familiarity, are offended with it; but the very purpose of
that paper is to show that bundling is not what it is believed to
be, that it is neither so common nor so bad, not a fiftieth part so
bad as people have imagined.
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