The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1855-05-25
WHOLE NUMBER l07.
Evil Consequences of Vulgar Dre,..

Evil Consciousness of Vulgar Drsss.
Now we will tell you how you will turn
him into 3 mere two-legged ape, or peacock.
strutting about to show his pIumage. The
tawdry tinery most American mothers put
upon their infants, originates in total alb
seuce Of artistic taste and in the meanost :
kind of emotion. Just look at the round
beauty Of an infants features, its lovely
smile Of delight, and the harmony Of its
flesh tints, and tell me, If you can, how its
charms are to be increased by coral banda
and tawdry Ssibbons. Would it not Be far
better taste to allow the unbroken undula-
ting curve of the little arm its full charm, ::
and the lovely tracery of the veins on the
temple, and the little fieecy whirls of downy /,
hair on the forehead to delight the eye, J
than to torture its arms with India man
acles of coral, and imprison its head with
porcupine cap of vulgar millinerys Look
at its little hands and feet what enchant-
ing sculpture! Can you improve them BY
dress
Where, let me ask, do you find gay col
ors to belong in nature9 Do they not
cover the meadows with their beautiful :
vestments do they not light up the shads
Of the forest with their brilliant hues, and
aeck the wings of the lovely wanderers Of
air, as they fit by you when you walk forth
into the fields are not the beautiful shellss
which the salt sea throws at your feet paint-
ed by the great Master who knew best
where the brilliant colors beloneedl do
you ever find such hues on the body Of yours
child Surely the flesh tints are beautiful,
and the coral lips and pesrly little teeth, {,
with the rosy-tipped and tapering fingers,
and the funny little toes covered with their
pearly shells, may well content you. Fleecy
coverings from the back Of the modest and
innocent lamb, and the snowy whiteuess Of |:
the flax or the cotton plant are far more
appropriate than piece of goats or Sleeps
dead skin dyed red or blue, and made into;
'mis-shapen shoe, or an incongruous mass
OF colored garments, that resemble no OBJ
Ject in nature or art .s:fz5 - -
The mother soon begins to direct her
darlings attention to iu adorumeut, and as
soon as the little monkey can walk At IS
trotted out by its nurse to show its load Of
borrowed feathers, and before it is six years
Of age most degrading Iowa of dress Is i'm
planted in its soul, which never leaves it
in life. What frightful evil has this be-
come throug ghout our land! The poor
| wife Of the laborer or mechanic cribs
shillinga day from her husbands toilful
earnings, for the adornment of her child;
the clerk or the book-keeper, If he do not
spend all his earnings for tobacco and IL
quor and oysters, because he is afraid to-
marry an American woman with the same
vulgar propensities, sees it in ribbons and
contemplate jewelrv upon her head, in her
ears and on her fingers, and his, children
penned up in an upper room because they
cannot be made fine enough to emulate tha
adornments Of his wealthy and vulgar neigh
bors. The mother is but carrying out on
her own person the earlies .lessoust Of hers
infancy. - 4. - .se.sssss>',1 49,
This extravagant adornment Of. its body
ls accompanied by an equal attention to the
;childs irhperious demands for Sshurtful>lux-
nries Of food. Of,course, neither. the ipcli-
nation Of the mother, noraher peeuniary orr
mental ability, will allow time Or means to,
| pay attention to its temper or Its trnesre.
quirements Of body; her husband acoai
aud his stomach must take their chance; :,
and while she is developing the new; dar-s
). ling, the public school room or the street
is developing Young America into q hope
full Wall street swindler, smercaiftife buc-
cancer, or swindling lawyer a. hypocriti-z
csl priest, or lying physicians: w hat WON
der is it that such mothers delight IN living
at hotels, or husbands With such wives,are:
glad to escape to the club or gaming
housea Why do we complain ) Of oas
wretched Irish servants - Who = il thst
produces the domestic misery Of our bonsst
hofdsand implants the vulgar sapb bberyaId
absurd dpretence of most of; our Dung men
aud women what is it that raises our
rents, and produces commercial 'Panjea and
fills our homes with sorrowfs z s.5tt = I,
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t@TA1N'T L1KE."--A certain iawyerah ahadt
his portrait takepin bis fayorte atatuds
standing with one hand In bis pocket. ,His|
friends and clients all went to- see il sand
everybody exclaimed; s0h, how;likel git Is
1.-The very, picture. of him An old. farmer.
4 only dissented- ain't like Tain't liIea1
teIclaimed every body; djnst:sho, 4. us wh6rs,
t4ain't Ike fsias no stain,t;n responded
the farmer don't you ,ses. he's so Ills,
1 hand 10 bis own pockets atwould bs as ika
again il he had II in somebody eSs's q sss IS 81
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