Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-02-02
The Interior of a Fashionable House.

The New York Tribune, in recent ar
|ticle on the " Morals of Fashionable So
|ciety, 'sgives the following picture Of the
interior Of an elegant residence, together
with portraits of its mistress -
"Iet us enter that magnificent house
with the brown stone front, and the winter
garden jutting out from the main build
ing, and one Of the shutters in each win
dow half closed, in order that the passer-
by may see that they are Of the finest
satin wood, pricked out with gold. Pass
ing through large drawing rooms en- suite,
and divided by Morisco arches, we will
softly enter the little boudoir on the left,
where in the midst of the dim lisht that
steals through the windows, stained pale
rose color, a lady re,lines in luxurious
fauteuil, reading. She is very lovely
Her dress is orientally rich and pictures
que, but an air of terrible languor over
spreads her beauty. While she is finish
ing that bad chapter of Pauld de Rocks
novels, We will tell you few facts about
her.
"She was brought up to make good
match. She left fashionable boarding
school at the age of fifteen, with perfect
knowledge of dancing, the French Ian
guage, and the art of putting on a shawl.
A summer at fashionable water place
prepared her morals and her manners for a
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 ap-
pearance beginning to fade, and it was de-
termined that she should marry forthwith:
so she became Madam before she was 90
And what sort of heart did she bring
her husband? One with youth and fresh
ness and purity to sanctify their inter-
course? Pshaw what has she to dc
with such things She was brought up
from the cradle to look upon everything as
moral that was expedient, and when she
married, married for an establishment
Her husband soon found out her heartless
lessness, and took to clubs when the hours
were over And she has nothing to dc
all day long but sit in satin chairs, anC
read corrupt French flash novels and flir
with idle young men. Over that luxuri
c GUS home there floats no angel of happi
: ness. Its owners lead dreary, sen
. sual life, miserable and splendid. Non
of those peaceful joys which less fashion
!: able people know, are ever found there
l Virtuous love shuns tho place, and its mis-
tress presides there in her beauty and mag
f niicence, haunted by nameless agony
=, like those gorgeous monarchs in the hal
of Eblis, who reigned in unceasiug pain
S And thus her life wears on, till som, da,
n the bubble bursts.
: And there was what might have been
S happy home destroyed by vicious system
: of society. If that girl had been brough
! up to look upon marriage as a sacred re
: sponsibility, instead on an advantageou
: settlement-if her heart had rot bee
: inluratel by her mothers ceaseless cour
: sells to encourage only such men as woul
o make good party-if she had been taugl
J, that woman had other duties in life besil
J, dancing we'll and managing a man-thine
s might have been different.
n "Our fashionable society in this city is
: sham, from beginnieg to end, 1t is utterl
f unsound, depraved and nnnatural--a dece]
: tive piece of rotten wood, made to loo
!, shiny with French polish, and glitterin
0 with the phosporescent light of corruptio
"a copper cent, trying its very best
t look like five franc peice, and what
worse, in nine cases out of ten succeeding