The true Democrat., 1855-08-07
No, 533 Nassau street, \. |.
For the Trne Democra

For the True Democrat.
 WHAT MAN OF SENSE SAYs.-A large merchant and importer says we are paying more duty on artificial flowers, than on railroad ron. He says the women are not educated right They going to bankrupt the country unless there is a change. More is thought of show than substance. We pay scores of millions an nually for ladies' ornaments which are of no use. We cannot afford 1t. It is worse than sinking the gold in the sea.
 The above we find going the rounds of the press, without credit Now the fellow who wrote 1t no doubt thinks himself pretty sen- sblc and considerable parsonage But Mr. Unknown, 1t becomes our painful, though inn leratvc duty, to inform you that although you may be man of sense," you are lacking very much in gallaltry anl curtesy to the fair sex.
 Our man of sense says that we annually pay millions of dollars for ladies' ornaments which are of no use. As to said ornaments being of no use our writer is very cgregiously mistaken. How in the name of all that is beautiful can he expect a young lady to get na1vieR if she does not fix up' and ornament her lovely person with jewels, fine dress etc. What young gen. Neman does he think would make such fool of himself as to marry young lady who dresses neatly, plainly, with refined taste and within her fathers income? No! no, my friend you don't catch any of the young men of our day doing such foolish thing as this. They are all gen. tlemen of spirit and fortune and of course want a flashing wife-onc who can lay out the most money on her person, and who can spend all her fathers fortune for dress without returning him one grateful look for allowing her to do it.; they want Q wife who has the independence to scorn manual labor and who can look with in difference at her mother bending over the wash tub washing her fine daughters frippery. This Is the kind of wife that our generation of young gentlemen prefer, and you have no cause to complain at the extravaganza of the daugh- ter who puts on all this flummery to catch such a husband.
 lie also says that we are annually paying more duty on artificial flowers than on railroad iron. What does he see in this to grumble at? Which, we would ask him, is it the most agreed be to see-a dirty locomotive dashing through the country with lightning speed, building up towns, and enhancing the value of property on its route, or to see his wife and daughter " dres- sed to death," and gradually but surely draw ing him to the brink of bankruptcy. Why the latter is of course the most agreeable and as it says in our constitution that every man shall be allowed the pulsuit of happiness, why do you, like an old croaker, wish to debar free Ameri. cans from enjoying themselves in the matter of dress!
 That it would be better to throw our gold into the sea than to buy ladies' ornaments with it, deny. For in few years all who have the dressing mania will be bankrupt and with themselves, their wives and daughters will have to go nobly to work to make even a lvnig. They will then repent of their folles, and others who were following in their footsteps will be deterred by their downfall from following them father and will fall back in the right path, and then young men can get themselves wives n- stead of ladies, as at present. But if we were to throw the money into the sea it would be gone, and no one would have learnt lesson by the way in which it went. R, w, R.