Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-06-25

when they go abroad, they have no other
protection against the sun or the rain than
a parasol.
The Spanish ladies have not yet reached
the point in the progress of barbarous re.
inement, Of wearing corSctS--which absurd
and irhuman custom is sending thousands
Of the youth and beauty of our country TO
an untimely grave. But the fanaticism of
custom like the fanaticism OF religion, must
have its victims and its slaves; and in Ell
Their case. the patient endurance Of the vic.
tim, and the acquiescence of the slave, are
in proportion to the cruelty and absurdity
Of the exactions oE their cruel and sense
less tyrants. And we are very full of com
miseraton for the condition OF other VIC
tins Of folly and though blind
to our own. When an American belle,
with her waist compressed to the smallest
possible dimensions, behoIds Chinese lady
trying TO walk on her crippled feet-she
exclaims show shocking! what an ubsurd
and cruel customl' and recommends that a
society be formed to emancipate the feet Of
her sister o! the East | hope that they
may succeed in their human enterprise, and
then may the Chinese sister repay the obi.
CATION by forming a society in Pekln to
emancipate the waists Of their American
sisters.
And when an American mother is told
that the Hlndoo mother gives her child to
the crocodile of the Ganges, she expresses
the utmost horror at such desttution Of
maternal feeling--whlIe her offspring are
dropping around her into a premature
graye--victims to a cruel and senseless
custom, laid upon the altar Of fashion, there
to die a more lingering and scarcely less
cruel death; the aggregate suffering of the
latter exceeds the momentary agony Of the
former; while the Ilntiou mother has the
sanction of her conscience and mandate Of
her religion to justify what she does, the
American has not single plea to offer that
even good taste, and common sense, much
less humanity, conscience and religion
would aIow.--But fashion with us, has as
many votaries and victims, as the divine
crockodie Of the Ganges.
Cyrus, king Of Persia, while on his expe-
dition to India. one day asked some Greeks
who were with him, "why they did not
eat their dead as the Indians didr'-At
which the Greeks expressed the most un-
feigned astonshmcnt and Notwithstanding
to some Indians who We're also present, he
asked them "why they did not turn their
dead as the Greeks did?' at which the In
dams were as much shocked, as the Greeks
were at the other.
We are not much ahead of the times of
Cvrus--aIthough we hear an incessant par
ade, from college stockings, and literary
sentimen talists, about-"Me march Of mind'
"a march fear that is circular-instead
of rectinear-Iike squirer in a revolving
cage, always in motion, yet always in he
same position.
If any one were to ask the bellies of the
celestial empire, End the bellies of our fash
Ionable societies to make an exchange Of
Stubbed feet, and wire-draUn WaiStS, or a
Hindoo mother and fashionable American
mother to exchange their respective modes
of destroying their offspring, it would do a
cynIc good to see what sublime and inetla-
bIe scorn would curl their indignant lips.
And yet were such an exchange to be made
i am sure, as whole. we would he gam
ers thereby--'hough shopkeepers. doctors
and undertakes would be loOSers.