Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-08-27

VOUeH-tP OtileH Cicd'ults ofmitation Ifthey knew their own power, if we w,ild allow them to know it. if they would only take tbtrouble now and then to think for themselves and toudge for themselves, their influence and their poer would be ten times greater. How entirely thy are the creatures of imitation A modest wo ma-marred or unmarried, maid, wife, or widow -young, trembling sensitive girl, who would not ioher right-hand be out of the fashion, or expose eV the tip of her lttlefnger in way not autho- riad by the fashion-om of the tashion will do an thing-any thing that fashion requires And wb sets the fashioni French milliners. And who arshe French milliners? Let the women of Ameri- caaswer this question for themselves Are we too seNeel Are we un ust? Let us try the question in wat that will decide it: Ask the first pure-hearted girlwho sings love-sOng in company to say over the lords to you, even to read them aloud to the sam company, or in the presence of her father or molkr or of any woman she respects-what she willIo in crowd of strangers, she will want cOul- age do at home. She will go to the Theatre ayeIr to the church-and listen to language without treniling or blushing, upheld by the presence of otheIwomcn, all keeping each other Tn counenance -wfch at home, by the table or the fresde of her ownIather in the presence of her own mother, she cou not hear without blushing, and could not repeat for ltr life. And why! Example supports her. Fusion regulates her modesty, her bushes, and her opirbns There are preachers who will read any
 hial aloud from the pulpit, which they find in the ScrItures,-an they will continue to do so, unless heHre rebuked, not by men merely, but by women Thee are actors who will say anyting-interpolate any hing upon the stage, long they are unrebu ed U modest women The coarsest allusons will be hazh hed 1he worst perversions of an author by tone or lolx, or gesture-so long aswomen-young, beau tifulhnd modest women, so blind to their own inteest and so indifferent to their own power, as to put II with them.
 Alether ing-Women will deform themselves r.. -. ( stA tt.o ranll down lherears with weights, who flatten their heads, wea' trum-sticks and human scalps in their noses !: whys their folly greaterhan that of we'll made grl
 whobubles the breadth ofher shoulders, pinches her
 feet o,t of all proportion, (ike the Chinese wears hat vich at the end of twelvemonth would frighten her vfh its shadow, and spells her clipsome waist to 0bli.e worthless uneducated unprlncipled vul- gar 'fench milliner. Yet more.-Look at our fine Accelerated, purehearted girls, e5upped for ball room or a rout and how entirely they are the creatures of fashion, to their modesty. A dres which they would not venture to wear among theiIfriends and families at home-not because of the laterial but because of the fashion-cut low in the ,osom-falling olf the shouders-opening in iron so to show the corset and the shrt-lf mol
 the aked bosom itself, to an extent lar beyond wha thei own interest will bear leaving not much mis teryfor the nuptla night" as poor dear Bron says;- cvo that they will wear, wlIn snort pettlcoals landhesh-colored, Open-wOrked silk stockings (and wh, short petticoats-and flesh-colored stockings andbpen bosoms-arhy? let them answer if they can, into mob of d thousand persons, made up o profgaes gloating sensualiss, foolish mothers anc vular starers with here and there lew well behav ed nodest women, who would call it immodest to go ungbved or bare armed; and yet if the fashion o goini bare-legged were to arrive tomorrow iron Frate direct, or through England, they would be sure b do so within month, and laugh at those fol theirprudery who did otherwise. Are we severe we ask again? Are we unjustl Do they not come a' near now as they can? fthey do not go bare-leg ged, do they not, or did they not little time ago try toappear so by wearing flesh colored stockings
 Did taey not leave their backs all exposed, witt the thnnest gauge, or no gauge al all, over thei
 "youlg budding' bosoms-wlth thelr shoulder blade
 brought so close together to exhibit any thiag bu pleasant exhibition 10 lover of beauty, or even sensu;list? And why do they these things? Are the. immodest by nature? Is modesty c0nUentiondt Tn stead of natural property ofthe female hear lslt al
 together dependant upon ashon-the say-sooi pro | higate French milliner? Do our women, lovely a they are-inde pendent highminded, and pure a
 they pretend to be-do they medm what ther expo sure would appear to ndlcate-an exhibition or the
 charms for market, as jockv would play oil quaf
 tity of horse flesh? Are they willing to exhibit a
 much of their to any body and 10 ecery co0y
 public, (the more public the better,) as fashion c
 sentiment,-the sentiment of the voluptuary, tn
 lounger, and the ribad prohigate will beari II SC
 what could restrain them in Paris from dolng a
 that fashionable French women do after marriage
 what could restrain them in Italy, or Spain or
 mong the South Sea Islands, from being all tn
 others arc-all that the fashion of the country auho
 izesl Have they no principles ct their o,on! Al
 they altogether dependent upon others! Ii so, lie
 ven help their husbands-their daughters-the ne generaton!-Ne,o Yo,k Courier aad Emqu'ssr'