The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-08-25
FASHION AT WATERING PLACES.

FASHION AT WATERING PLACES.
The hinese do ho-tou in their faces in the
presence oftheir superior and the benigAted
African worships fetish made Of old rags.
but neither the negroes nor the monaghan
are bit more absurd than Americans when
they PROSTATE themselves to the thing call
ed fashion. And of all follies connected
with fashion that of fashionable watering
places is the most superalative ridicu-
Ious.
Mrs. Nervous for example wants change
! of sir. But unfortunately for the dear lady
she connot consent to be cured except at
the most tolni h watering place; and ac-
cordingly her husband Il on b he can i'll af-
ford any extravgance is compelled to take
her to such resort What matters it that
the rooms are closed, the table scantilY pro-
vided and the proprietor extcrtionate in ev-
cry way! This fashionable lady, or that
boards there, or has boarded there leaving
behind her an odor of gentilitY to all time.
It is amazing when ineonveniences and even
insults, Mrs Nervous and hundreds like her
viii put up with in order TO eat at the same
table as the "upper ten, " and be bullied out
by the same landlord.
Nor is this all; for at fashionable water
ing places, one would think that health
was the last thing they saught Mrs Man
oeyre has gone there to marry off her daugh-
ters. Mrs. Epheson has come to catch a
second husband. Mrs Flirt is there to CO.
quet with the gentlemen, Miss Dash is
to rsise sensation by her oddities. In the
little world of five hundred boarders, tenn
porarily inhabiting the hotel there are as
many cliques, intrigurs and IiYalries as at
the court of Louis XIV. Mrs. Tallowchan-
dler turns up her nose a. Mrs Eoapfat be-
cause the husband of the latter retals his
goods while her own sells out at wholesale.
Mrs. Drone will not speak 70 Mr. Useful be-
cause the latter works for his living while
| the former spends in idleness the fortune
acquired by his father. Even lie s'gentle.
men and ladies Of color" who according to
their account partly for recreation and part
~ to obige the fashionable world consent
to wait at table make beds and black boo's,
partake Of this eeclusiTeness; and one ''pro-
fessional gentleman" boasts to another with
pompous sself-satis'aciion Of his tonnish mis-
iress and prorounces the employer of an
other Of mo account" because he made his
money in sals-polk instead of in sugar.
Thousands Of dollars are annually sacri.
feed at these fashionable watering places by
families who are rnabe 10 afford it. While
husbands are borrowing money at two per
cent month wives are sporting lace capesI
that cost hundred dollars at hotels where
the family bill is another hundred per week.
yHhsio G. sha4e avo frono oblsno, Nth the faaP
of failure in the fall, daughters are Haunt
ing at watering places in the costliest Jew
elry or sous are sporting fast horses, giving
suppers, and perhaps gaming
and drinking half the night. Deliver us
from fashionable hotels at the sea shore or
the springs! They would swallow up the
purse of a millionaire and destroy the health
of Samson. They would teach airs to the
girls Of the hest mother, and make the sons
Of the thriftiest father improvident.
Ostensibly people go out Of town for
health. But how many are better for So
iourn at fashionable watering place? In
stead of returning home with red cheeks,
ladies come back faded with late hours: and
gentleman instead Of being more yig rous,
are paying the penalty of wine snppers. a
fortnight at some quiet place where the air
is fresh and The hours early Is better than
8 month At ono of The fashionable dissipa~
tion. d llis one case you get what you
contract ca end ct moderal price too; il
the other you pay six dollars ior board and
six for fashion and ere cheated in
bOlh.
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