The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-11-29
Dassdyisin.

In our last we had few words to say
in regard to class Of persons with which
our community, in common WITH most
others, is becoming somewhat unpleas-
antly infested. There is anothsy class
to which We now take the liberty of
drawing attention at this time. This
class about which wo now propose to
write, is quite as useless, so far as any
productive value is concerned, rs the
former one but they are what wo might
perhaps very properly call a negative
nuisance. While the former class
among the respectable portion of COM
munity, by actual mischief and dcstruc-
ton of property, the latter generally do
so more by the entire absence Of any
decided character, than by any depreda-
tons on society. The class that we
now have in our mind, is made up of a
species of bipcds of the genus homo,
commonly called Dandies, the male of
which, Webster tells us, dresses himself
like doll, and carries his characnsr on
his back. There are females Of this
specie, but we feel that it would be a
delicate business to attempt to humble
them, and therefore propose at this time
to confnc ourself only to the male Or-
ton.
A moro useless race of beings Shan
this same race of Dandies, perhaps, was
never created, and why they ever ucre
created has often been a vexatious ques-
ton with us but after good deal Of
study on the subject, We have pretty
much come to the conclusion that they
must have been made for the purpose of
using up the raw material which was left
after the manufacturing of men had been
completed. And as the supply ofbrains
must have been consumed in tho making
of the more useful portion of the species,
it is very natural to draw the inference,
that the deficiency of brains was made
up by furnishing an extra supply Of i'm
pudence, which is remarkably cheap
commodity, in these days, and it is quite
astonishing how the latter is frequently
made to answer the purpose Of thefor-
mer. We have sometimes thought that,
perhaps the human race was so much
increased that it is impossible to supply
them all with brains, and therefore a
large portion is turned off in sort OF
unfinished state for we certainly do not
know Of any created being that gives
evidence of so great a deficiency in the
finishing as Dandy.
But seriously, it can but be a matter
of grief to the thinking man to scsfhow
large portion Of our young men are
growing up to a life of almost entire use
lessness. Labor has become almost
disgraceful; the man who works for
his daily bread has come to be locked
upon as a sort of an out-cast from the
gentecl portion of society, and the Dan
dy, who contributes not the first item
towards the building up of society, or
towards the progress Of any of the val
liable monuments of the day, looks upon
such man-though he may be very
useful order of being, still-as of an en-
tirely inferior order to himself. The
great ambition of this class seems to be
to render themselves ridiculous byrvul-
gar display in dress, and an insuiFerable
puppyism, which has simply the effect
to render them despicable in the eyes oi
all people of common sense.
The only remedy that we can Sc. for
this growing evil is, for those who have
the training of boys, to early initiate
them into the arts and mysteries oI
earning their bread by the sweat Of the
brow, instead of training them, as is now
almost universally the case, to leok up
on physical labor as an unmitigated