Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-19

,rahefs lie dare 10 set themselves against
6shIoo. wen when they know that fash
ion % be foolish and wicked. But they
mas1 20 so. IL they are convinced that
prescn, ashton is wrong, they must yield
Is the conviction, and govern themselves
win reference 10 it,
The irst thing is to set good exam
pies And herein. perhaps, is, the most
difficult part of all. 1t is comparatively
easy lor mothers and teachers to tell their
. cNldreu and pupils how they ought to do:
: but 10 whit willtheir good advice amount
! II they do not set corresponding exam
pleR And yet there are ms6v who saw
perhaps in sincerity, too, such is the
varying, debiiitating effect of anv sor, Of
slavery on the mind-as others have said
Oh spirits, tobacco, opium, snuff, tea, cot.
Zee &C., that they have used the unnatur.
al ana unnecessary support so long, that
however wrong in the nature of things its
use may be, they cannot, themselves, do
without it.
- We do not believe 10 the necessity of
continuing IN slavery because we have al
ready lived in it thirty, forty, or fRy
years. We believe liberty to be always
privilege. however late in life her hand
IS proffered. Nevertheless, there is such
thing as doing something for our child.
rem, even though we ourselves continue
to transgress. We have known a mother
who, though she continued the use of oni.
um, tea and coffee herself would not ney.
NIT her children to use either. nor did
the refusal seem to them hardship
True, they were very early trained to it.
and they had the father on their side
The idea prevailed among them that
mother is a sick woman and must be
tndulgsd little. If such an impression
can be made upon the minds of her off.
spring by a mother who is determined to
continue to sin herself in the matter of
dress, it would be wrong for us to saw
that no good could possibly be done in
this way. We do not indeed say it would
not De doing evil that good might come ;
Tor with the moral correctness or obIioui-
" OF such course, we do not now nro.
pose 10 intermeddle.
But let mothers and teachers-we
speak OF those who are truly enlichten.
edo rs they may lin regard TO settino
an example, they must, as christians-as
any thing, indeed. but the murderers of
their children-train up their families 10
freedom of body as well as to freedom ofI
mlnd. II is difficult for US TO think, with
any. good degree of compacency, of the
mother who, while she understands this
subject, will still bring up her children to
the use Of a tight dress.
Few persons can be found who admit
that they themselves dress tightly ENOUGH
TO DO any harm. Others do, thew will
a1mi' aud they themselves NAV have
done 80 IN former years; but of late thew
dress loosely, very loosely indeed. And
they probably think so. Yet we have
known persons who entertained this no.
ton, who never. in their lives, put on q
dress by their own unaided efforts. tire
CURED the main strength of one or two
strong female assistants. Such is the
power OF habit, and the infa,uation of
slavery.
There are not few good people, how
ever VINO are wanting in the moral cour.
age necessary TO reformation. Toev
would gladly change their habits. thew
say, and dress correctly: but then now
they would lookl Thew dare M, e..
their lives, be thus singular. We pity
those who make this objection to chang
ing their habits, for we know thew are
soreiy tried. Nevertheless, as surely as
we ought to obey God rather than man
80 surely is It our duty 10 go forward and
DO what we believe to be our duty. all an.
pearances to the contrary notwithstand
ing. ''''N
Dfess-makers may, and in our opinion
ought to do something in this matter
Lei II be remembered, we say once more.
that we speak of those who understand
the human constitution and its laws. and
the terrible evils of tight-lacinp. and who
acknowledge the force of moral obliga.
non; Tor we have little If any hope OF 9th
ers' The dress-maker might do verv
great work indeed, if she would. There
Is wide difference between persuading
every female who has a new dress 70
nave II as loose as possible, and lurino
her, and even deceiving her-as has
sometimes been done-in order to ;ndnce
her to have it as tight as possible. What
II will not set quite SO weIl-what
tnen9 She might state the case nla;nl,
placing her own health and her dn,v, -
ner race into one end Of the scales, and a
Pesvet'eo taste and :yrannical fashion into
me oIner, and leave her to decide for her
sci wnat she should do But less than
THIS as y appears to US, the truly Christian
oress.maker cannot do. She has mn
right 70 be voluntarily an instrument, n
destroying heRiellow creatures. to secnra
20 herself the reputation of being cons;d-
cred accomplished in her profession
This, we are aware. IS requiring Of
single occupation more than will h.; -