Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1852-12-18
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.ss8s1 ssss8ss1IE,sG'FlRIED, p q Jun., Assistant Editor.
FASHIONABLE III FOLLIES. s5

.outiupon some Of the sfollies of ths
great Metropolis. We cordially en-
assss ,hs selltiia1n.SIssntt. n \, tAs following
paragraph, and hope The Go'hamites
may iponderlit libafore another op4
rottani.yaofl pliers for an esli1ities 10.
expensive and iunmeaning s,,i.E;;s \,
Not much to our Credit ~,
~. That mock funeral sfew days
ago, Isaiditolb besein honor Of Daniel
lYebster,-,ra ID an honor to him or
TO sus2S or, astitthe contrary 4 Did il.
serve any good purpose except 70 a
muse the children withsa fine showi
SWassit an adequate expression lof the
respect entertained by the people of
New York fortbe departed slNdstitl
d spectacle which he is now an inhabtj
|itant Of the world Of. REALITY could
contemplate with complacepcy ~.
was not and every individual with
whom we onyersedluponlthe eisnbjectl
felt aud acknowledged thatit was not
IL cost . sum Of money sufficient To-
have procured, from the .chiss el of
Grsenodgh, Powers, or Bracket, a
statue Of tho Sstatesman, which, for
gspcration AFTER generation, would,
have done honor: TO his memory and
10 our liberali,y aud taste. We had
twenty thousand dollars worth of
Grape and funeral marches, and now
allSis over except The coughs, colds
and fevers, which so many hours Of
ansccustomed exposure The autumn
air gave to those who took partin.the
show. Let us have done with :. llon-
oring'' our public men with albad i'm.
itation, of Persian. barbaIic pomp.-
0r, five must, like the Romans, de-
cree them triumPhal professions. Jet
US also, like the Romans, decree them
public statues. We may just add that
the, department Of some oflhc public
personages was little in ccordancei
with the nature Of the duty they were
supposed 70 DO engaged in. Z
~ The Home Journal indulges in
the following severeihit At fashionable
ssliterary institutes 4
"Insold times, . capital Of fifty dol
lars snfhced TO set up school. "A few
plain desks and benches, haifs dozen
bundles Of quills. i few books. and an
old rusty stove, were about tho usual
stock in trade. True, theyturned out
excellent men and women from schools
so furnished. Tho pupils did not
learn the whole range ofthe sciences,
but they did learn modesty, honesty
and obedience; also, reading. writing
and arithmetic, after q very tolerableI
fashion. Since all the boys became
q young s,ipg gentlemen. and all the girls,
turned into young ladies, '':-calami-
ties which occurred about twenty
years ago,--the schools have changed
intoIinsiitutes, institutions, academies
and seminaries. They have changed
their names names and their nature. We
have seenprivats schools, which were
fitted up at an expense Of from twenty
TO sixty thousand dollars OF dollar
too much, if jue;ciously expended
In these sumptuous establishments,
young ladies are g taught 9 g mental
philosophy logic, chemistry, Latin,
and the higher Mathematics" Poor
,damsels If this were the age Of
,knighthood, ihowsman of the flowers
of chiyalry would eito your rescued
But it's not, and so You must grow
pale over barren tasks, and 60 out in
10 life, little fitted eitherto enjoy. or
to understand, orgto improve life, as
though you had gone y school in the
cold, wan moon.ss
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