The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-23

Mind your frock, Master Arthur!-sL Lady
Jane take care Of your beautiful lace psi ord
Anred, won't have you play with that 'ere mas
Y aog, a-Jumping on your velvet dress n--are
the constant outcries of the authorities. The
Lady James and Lord Alfreds must not walk in
the sun for fear OF their compilations must not
roll on the grass or in the hay, or romp, or ride,
or run, or do any thing that tends to the deve-
iopment Of their little frances or the fertilization
Of their constitutions. If they escape infanti-
eide al the hands of the head-nurse, who leaves
them naked upon her lap, with the thermome-
yer below freezing point, in order 10 go through
her routine OF abutions,- -lf they survive 10 be
squeezed into the tight Shoes and screwed into
the stays and cun-papers, if they defy the united
enorts OF nurses, apothecaries, baby-linen ware
houses, and governesses, to reduce them to
Ieebleness peevishness, and despair, the Bri-
tish constitution is richly deserving all the lau-
datlons bestowed upon il in this and all other
countries
we must again assert il TO be an act of part-
atty on the part OF the Fates, that, as some chill
dren are born with silver spoons in their mouths,
and some with wooden lade, the silver spoon
should be made to convey only decoction of
rhubarb, or SIENNA tea, and the ladle pure spring
water
The children of the mobility sprawl unmo-
Tested, squat unmolested. No impulse of theirs
IS checked by the closo fitting Of their ragged
garments. They enjoy free exercise of limb
and lungs No one excoriates their epdermis
with much scrubbing, or brings on catarrhs by
prolongation of their toilet Their lives, like
their garments, sit easy. They may play with
the cat,--they may make dirt pies,--they may
make themselves happy. If they want to sail
their walnut-shell boat, there is the nearest pud-
die: if they want to fly their kite, the common
is at their door. The woods are theirs, with
their early violets and late black berries, their
squirrels and birds nests. To their magma
ton, trees are made to be climbed rivers 10 be
bathed in. The free air is all their own. They
breathe il uncompressed by stays, embarrassed
BY the badgering of nursery governess. They
look the sun in the face, fearless that in return
It should visit their cheek too roughly. They
are accustomed to rough vsitngs.
Instead of being tormented about turning out
their toes, their toes are allowed to enjoy state
of nature. Instead Of being engirded with
blackboard, their packs support sheaf Of bull
rushe3, or basketful OF acrons or beechmast or
perhaps some little loving brother or sister, Of
fering kisses in payment of its fare. Fruit not
being interdicted by DR.. Magnesia, they snatch
their sloes from the hedge, their strawberries
from the wood, their nuts from the hazebush.-
They have no notion of juvenile fancy ball
with two months training beforehand from Ma
dame Michau. But on May day, they rise with
the lark (and who is better up 10 lark than a
selves with garlands of wild hyacinths or egan-
tine, and caper with all their hearts and souls
round the hawthornbush on the village green !!
Who invented cowslip halls?-The children
Of the mobility.-Who invented daisy chains r.
The children of the mobility WHO made the
first necklaces of spaHows' eggs?-The children
of the mobility.-Who originated leap-frog
blindman's bluff, and all other boisterous diver
sions2-The children of the mobility.
structed by fnery and frippery, they pursue the
sports of childhood with chldhood's reckless i'm
pulses Of joy.-Instead of the tedious airing,
smothered up in nurses ap-instead of the
monotonous saunter, handcuffed by nurses
authority--instead of the discipline of the
schoo-room, the preventive physicking of the
apothecary inflicted upon their miserable rivals,
the Offsets of the mobility bask in the sun
shine, or freshen in the shade. As if to coun-.
terbalance the cares Of after-life, the little rag
ged urchins hunt their butterflies in inconside-
rate delight A galop on the tinkers donkey
is happier thing than the formal ride under the
stiff Recommendation of family coachman; nay,
swing on a gate is happier thing, or see
saw across the carpenters bench.
Liberty must be god-like blessing or
the East and the West, the North and the
South, would not fight for it as they do. We
sincerely trust that the next crusade or war of
liberation attempted in Christendom, will pur-
port to enfranchlse the juvenile aristocrats Of
these enlightened realms from the manaces,
handouts, strait-wastcoats, foolscaps, back
board, Stocks and other instruments Of torture,
which have been brought to light by means of
the philanthrophic and wetl-ntentioned designs
of Chalon.