The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-03-23
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From Bentley's Miscellany.
THE CHILDREN OF THE MOBILITY
THE CHILDREN on THE NOBILITY.

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| THE CHILDREN OF THE NOBILITY.
| Most Of the fine writers of the day,-being
chiefly personages who manufacture their arti-
cles, like Sir Richard Blackmore his poetry,
to the rumbing of their chariot wheels, p
are sticklers for the doctrine of compensation.
When their haunch Of venison proves done to a
turn-their pineapple ripe and well-havored-
their claret clear--and their friend and gossip
| disposed to adjudge the same merit to their own
arguments-the guinea timers SIT down to IN
dite their dissertations, dipping their golden
pen into silver standsh to describe the impair
TALLY wherewith Providence dispenses its ia
vors to the denizens of this little planet.
| 1t may be So The guinea-a-liners know best.
Gout, they assure us, rarely visits the damp no.
vels Of Ireland; while the broad, good-humored
face Of Y yorkshire farmers wife retains the hue
and outlines of youth and beauty long after the
| Almack's Dowager has grown lank and faded.
Its, of course, needless to balance the account
with illusions to typhus fever, or the wasted
| paupers of the poor law bastile. The chief
object of fine writing is striking contrast-mo al
antithesis-light and shade. Redundance of
example puzzles the reader. 'Look on this
picture and on that !"---" Eyes right-eyes
left" is sufficiently explicit.
| In disserting, therefore, upon the juvenile ge-
nerations of the kingdom, let the Alpha and
Omega classes suffice. All the intervening
rubbish we leave to preparatory schools and gen
teel mediocrity. The Mobility-the Mobility
constitute the night and morning Of the day.
| The first happiness of child is freedom of
action--to have ample space and verge enough
| for kicking and screaming. As regards its
powers of gratifying the eyes of others, young
child, we conceive, cannot be too simply appa-
relied Its garments should be warm in winter,
light in summer, capable of easy adjustment,
and frequent renovation. As FIVE minutes sui
fees to make the ceanest child as dirty as a
chimney sweep, FIVE minutes out to suffice to
make it completely clean again. To insure this,
silk ought never to figure in its attire. All
should be amenable to the publication of soap
and water Its own fair, bright face, its truth
full eyes, and dimpled mouth, sufficient
adornment.
But though advocate for freedom of action we
cannot forgive that irrational cruelty which ex-
poses the little naked arm of newborn infant
to the nippng of bitter winters day, its sleeves
tied up with satin rbands, to crafty the vanity
Of the authors of its days at the risk OF its life,
for the display of two haccid, Uniformed arms,
most unmeet to wreste with the wintry blast.
| An infants cheek, too tenderer than roseleaf,
ought to be approached only by objects soft and
susceptible as itself-its mothers bosom, swans
down, or the simplest covering. Instead OF
this, the wantonness Of our folly places upon its
head finely embroidered cap, with half a do
zen borders Of stiff and well-crimped lace, on
which, when ii lies down to sleep, II must expe-
rience the torrents of Regulus. To render the
poor little creature ridiculous it is wretched
this foolscap is surmounted by cockadc of lace
or rband, without grace or symmetry, resem-
bling those with which we decorate our coach
horses; and, lest when we permit the babe TO
take the air, it should indulge hope to get rid
of this strange incumbrance, we place over the
cap huge hat a la Henri Qudtre with ano-
ther cockade and plume of feathers ;-crushing
the little Uniformed features BY the preponde-
rance of the Otranto-like machine, and giving its
poor little feeble neck, scarcely capable of self
: support, weight well calculated to inure its
patience TO the future burdens of life!
OF the first steps Of these innocent martyrs il
cannot be said that
! &c NEST que la premier pas que coute.
To enttle them to walk, their little feet are
} encased in shapely shoes Of morocco, such as
would have ensured corns TO the Venus de Me-
dcis, or Apollo Belvidere. The child's waists
at the same time encircIed by prodigous sash
with bows and ends large enough for the efhgy
, OF Queen Anne in St Paul's churchyard; ant
its rope or tunic be fred, be-hounced, be-cufi
ed, be-garnished be-Mechlined, be-Valencien