Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-24
Fashionable Society,


People lately have been going down to the
Five Points and expending their sympathy
and labor on the children of depravity that
swarm in those classic purlieus. Mr.. Brace,
with an unostentatlous self-devotion worthy of
SO great cause, has been working miracles
of good amongst these social outlaws, and an
other philanthropist has by aid of silly book
been making fortune out of misery and crime.
We should be sorry to divert Mr.. Braces at
tention from the field he is now cultivating
with such holy ardor, but if there are any
spare philanthropists among us we can point
ont sphere for their labor, where there is as
much room for the exertions Of the moral re-
former as in the most wretched haunts in the
city. There is no danger Of soilng their
boots. Velvet carpets will lie beneath their
feet, and their morality must be preached in a
drawing-room whisper.
Let US enter the magnificent house, with the
brown stone front, and the winter garden jut-
ting out from the main building, and one of
the shutters in each window half closed, in
order that passers by may see that they are of
the finest satin wood picked out with gold
Passing through large drawing-rooms en- suite
and divided by Morsco arches, we will softly
enter the little boudoir on the left, where in
the midst Of the dim light that steals through
the windows, stained pale rose color, lady
reclines in luxurious fautuiel, reading
She is very lovely. Her dress is orientaly
rich and picturesque, but an air of terrible
langor overspreads her beauty While she
is finishing that bad chapter in the worst Of
Paul de Knocks novels, we will tell you a
few facts about her.
She was brought up to make good match.
She left a fashionable boarding school at the
age of fifteen, with a perfect knowledge of
dancing, the French language, and the art of
putting on shawl. A summer at fashion
able watering place prepared her morals and
her manners, for larger sphere of society,
and at sixteen she made her debut She was
the rage for two years and went everywhere,
but when verging on her nineteenth year, her
mother observed with alarm that her appear
ance was beginning to fade, and it was deter
mined that she should marry forthwith so
she became Madame before she was twenty
And what sort of heart did she bring her
husband? One with youth and freshness and
purity to sanctify their intercourse! Pshaw |!
what has she to do with such things! She
was never young. She was brought up from
her cradle to look upon everything as moral
that was expedent, and when she married,
she married for establishment. Her hus-
band soon found out her heartlessness, and took
to clubs, when his BUSINESS hours were over,
And she has nothing to do all the day long,
but TO sit in satin chairs and read corrupt
French novels, and firt with idle young men,
Over that luxurant home, there floats no an
gel of happiness. Its owners lead dreary,
Of those peaceful joys which less fashionable
people know, are ever TO be found there
Virtuous love shuns the place, and its mis-
tress presdes there in her beauty and mag
nifcence, haunted by nameless agony, like
those gorgeous monarchs in the hall of Elbs,
who reigned in unceasing pain. And thus
her life wears on, until some day the bubble
bursts.
And there was what might have been
happy home, destroyed forever by vicious
system of society. If that girl had been
brought up to look upon marriage as sacred
responsibility, instead Of an advantageous set
tement-if her head had not been indurated
BY her mothers ceaseless counsels to encOur-
age only such men as would make good par
tie; if she had been taught that women had
other duties in life to fulfil besides dancing
we'll and managing man-things might have
been different.
Our fashionable society in this city is
sham from beginning to end 1t is utterly
unsound, depraved, and unnatural-a decep-
tive piece Of rotton wood, made to look shiny
with French polish, and glittering with the
phosphorescent light Of corruption--a copper
cent, trying its very best to look like five
franc piece, and what il worse, in nine cases
out OF ten succeeding.-N. Y. Times.
1t is a remarkable fact, that the letters W
r-o-n-g, are invariably pronounced Drong.