Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-11

For what is 1t 20 he fl,ySisna5le, but
70 ditter from, and Guido the vulgar
Nov, lince the vulgar can, ami indeed
often do, give their daughters a high de
gree OF y WI mind and heart education las
ir mas b called) thereby making them
god wives, and when they grow up to
be fare toerably amiable and refptttable
women; 1t is evident that the lefs we
have TO do with the mind and the heart,
the more we diger from the vulgar, and
the greater our expenfe in adorning and
improving the body, the mere we outdo
then; confequenly a eomtk,eJ f,l,,o1-
able education mutt, and of right ought
to be made up entirely, totally, and alto
gether OF external accomplish ments.
Some object to an executive attention to
~ theie accenplifhm becauft. that even
muiic, the mott i~,portant of them, inaead
of terding to make .good zviz'es. is gener
ally neglected by ladies upon their becom
ing wives. But the rea{on for this objec
-rion is extremely tutile, and betray a
clnSvniih ignorance OF fashionable life.
With equal propricey might we object 70
sine prudent matron's tinging her butter
with fadron, or the butchers bloating his
meat, before Tending it TO marker, becauie,
forfooth, it is NOT a wilit the better FOR Il
after being foll. Hal theft accomplish
Incnts a te.-d4ncy topfevent their becomiap
wives, the objection, on thas ground,
mishl be ferrous but iince, 10 far from
preventing, they facilitate it,. al, purpefes
OF fashionable education are aniwered /;
for whether thcy make wives, good, Dad
or ind,tarent, IS nopody's concern bot
their -haiband,. @
AS to the prefer, falhion of female drefs
l. llach deciain,ed again.t, ] think ~
thing can be more proper, bee ming or
rational. / h2s 1t is proper for Our Gil
mate clearly appears rom he dre.s OF the
>aeprlsines Of this country, who, f:om long
and intimate acquaintance with the climate
may &c fa,pof'd cef to know VIA. drefs
IS IN 1t ialta lie to II. This cult IN is al
mieably adopted to the f,afon, and aItho'
it nay be objected that the ladies by thus
deekng TO cool themfelses, MY chance to
over near others, yet this is no fault OF
theirs. j. is becoming, and OF courfe "a .
tonai, becaufe it is fashionable. Fa.hion
is goddcfs, which, in all ages and natl
ons, has been mott devoutly worihpped.
She may indeed be no !efs changeable than
PRorHvs, and fometimcs as ugly as VuL-
CAN, Fyet never will The ceafe to be NOR
fafcinating than VENus. Though IoEL
BARLOW, N his enthuGaln for haity pud :
ding, aeelared, that, forfaking his God, he
ihonid iaoitirute e0,v, YET mott people, it
smutt be acknowledged, betake themlelves
no iaihion.
"A late Englifh writer, however, I mean
the elegant author OF the LOCKER ON,
im 1ltes this faihion in the Britilh ladies
TO |the magnanini,y OF the Tex which,
white the nlen re exp ,iing their nscks
abroad, made il feem bat tar, that thew
thouid do the fame at h, mes Now. al
though no American citizens arc at pre-
ienr expoiing their lecks abroad, how
many ioever OF foreign ones are endan-
gerirg theirs here YET oar tar country.
women may 70 FAR exceed the Britiih ia.
dies IN patriot.im an ma animity, as to
BE- induced, withou the example Of our
Tex, not only 70 expofe heir necks, re-
glrdtds OF consequences, but their irorf
parent pertons. ALBEDO.
L5oker Or No r,