New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-21
4 Young Anericsi' Ii Soosetv.

American society, AZ 4ssss sii our cities, is
fast becoming both silly Hsd stupid YoHnT
America reigns paramount in IL Boys, who
but yesterday were being Rugged for false Latin,
and girls who have jest escaped fron pin-a-fores
and bread and batter. take on themselves all
the airs Of grown-up pcofles actually tarustine
their parents aside, and assuming the entire
control Of the amnsements At moss parties the
tone is given by Comparative children Con-.
ceited youngsters, on whose chin sbe down has
scarcely begun to appear, strut about in high
shirt collars, short taled coats, deep cuiss. and
tight pantaloons; take the head of cotiilons. az
if by right Of precedence affect to be as 95asc
as noble Of the aacien ysgi1fe and annoy
wonens old enough to be their mothers, and
with more sense in q finger than these Htt1ls
monkeys have in all their bodies, with ridicu-
lOus compliments, absurd criticisms on nsislc, or
slang intended for wit. Little MISSES also, with
bare shoulders, bare arms. and minds more
bare than either, look contemptuously around
and express their imperial wonder that the hos
tess could be 80 stupid as TO invite 80 many nsK~
ried ladies. In American society 1t is, ag pfe.
sent the day Of small things. Il
The conversation ut these social assembled Is
what might be expected from the character Of
those who control them. III is as fat as stale
beer, and as inspid as skim-milk The little
girls giggies and the httie boys look solemn
the former smooth down their dresses, and the
latter pull up their collars but with this diff
ference, they behave much alike AIT the sup
per table, they push forward into the most PRO-
miEent places; help themselves firss; scatter
terrapfn, ersam and jellies fndiscrimiuateiy
over tFIe dresses of such married ladies ag hap-
pen to be IN their way drink what they de
gantly call g lots" of champagne; and keep up
such an incessant cflatteriDg and Laughing, that
nobody, as the phrase goes. Z can eaf their own
saSg !. I, J,
America confined its presumptuousness to par
ties. But the lady who has orened her house Is
subjected, for days afterwards, to the morning
visits Of boys seeking to play the find gentle
man, who talk 20 her in d style half silly and
half impudant, treating her as il she we're still
unmarried; and this, though they were not in
vited to her ball, perhaps, but only came with
some female guest, and though they know, or
ought to know. that the mother Of b family,
in America, has something better 10 do of morn
itgs, than 70 listen to the empty talk Of idle
young fools. q
Yet. it must be confessed, this sovereignty Of
6 Young America" is partly the fault Of grown
up people. Married women too generally sub
side into household drudges neglest the eulti-
vation ofmind and manners; and, BY abdcat-
ing their true position in society, make way for
the usurpation of the misses and masters that
polk" Wedo not advocate the disregard of
domestic duties But we contend that their
fulfllment is quite compatible with proper de-
gree Of social RI creation, and that, indeed, a
wife and mother is healthier, in both mind and
body. for occasional relaxation In society
Moreover, as o general tale, women do not begin
To think till they are married d man of sepse
finds the conversation of a raw girl insufferably
stupid, for it has lost the aaieets of childhood
without acquiring the solid character Of expe-
rience in life and intelligent women complain
continually of the annoyance of having to talk
to conceited boys Why do not the real heads
of society, therefore, assert their supremacy,
and, by putting down the reign Of the Mazourka,
the Sehottisch, and their concomitant, g Young
America" restore to society q higher tcnes
The il formed, the intelligent, and the realIy
we'll bred, who now avoid what is called society
would then return to it, and party would be-
come place for the exchange of IDEAS. and
grow to be rational amusement; But, while
e Young America keeps the head, the heels
will carry it s.all hollow against the head
[Phil. Ledger.