Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-07-09
For the Spirit of the Age,
Ed-e-cation.

1t will be seen by the annexed article
that our good Old fSiaud " AUNT KIZzY,"
is taking on drea, ~ about the wrong
doings Of the "yoM rs in these re-
generate" days. HeSRker grEaorate,"
young ladies, and give he .y<her coen-
sellings, especially about the eFsintinA =
business. If !" Father Gripep our neig gk.'
Dor Heflin's friend, is widower, we ad !.
wise him to freeze on to Aunty
95D. AGE.
MISTER PRINTER-I wants to talk with
you about the way things is all going roIg,
hoping we'll be able to put a stop to it,
L'Taint no use to deny it; the world is a
gittin' rong eend foremost; the gals are git
Ap' SO tender they can't work, and then
t1sy are gittin' so highminded I'm rally
afArd they'll turn to dodoes or some 9TH
Ter fSin' beast All they think about is to
go tGtsehool and git ed-e-ca-tion and larn
the fashuns and try to keep up with um
JIst 90 out to meetin' in Sthese latter days
OF DEPRESSION and Improvement, as they is
called, where we ought to see nothin' else
but homspun cloth, homemade stufs and
bonnetts, and we see leghorns and palme-
tos and silks and shallys, marinos, gauzes,
and Sblonds assembled there, enough to buy
the bASt. farm In the settlen ent. perfect
.saazgged out Ia silks and oatsl'i Jn Vim I'm
laccs and ribands, and they goes mincin'
alon 9 with their parasols over them, and
fauds in their hand, as if they were feard
the sun would melt 'um like wax. or take
the color out of their purity little faces like
printed cotton blind.
Well, this is to be the ruin of this coun.
try afore long; thars no mistake about it
1t amt poverty we have to fear mother, fol
we needn't have it without we want but
it is the fashunablc high life. The y gc
the whole fger in it, in these days, you may
depend on it, 1t seems like folks amt con.
tent to apear what they rally be, but want
to apcar what they rally aint. They live toe
extravagant, and dress too extravagant, anC
aint willin' to do what's the only thing t.
support that extravaganza, that is, be in
dustrious and use economy and be econ-i
mic-al. Theirs somethin' not altogethe
just rite in this. Thar's a false pride,
falls feelin', and falls edecation in thes
days; and the worst of all these habits is
they ruinatc the young folks, and the,
grow up as big gumps as the old ones ant
come to some bad cend.
It's strange what falls notions folks ar
gittin' about things any how 1t seem
like they can live on railroads, and steam
boats, and ed-i-ca-tion Then every schoo
master and mistis must be cramin' tn
heads and minds of eirscholars with fal
doctrin, that the world is round and turn
over and goes round the sun and the
: they have the stars movin in the Heaven
, like cattle in the meadow, and,a hundre
other foolish things too bad to mention
Then they'd have bleave the stars are al
worlds, if they could but who's gwine t
bleave it? l aint, l know.
They don't stop at this, but they mus
larn the gals to paint. They'd better lar
up TO improve the color mater has give un
torSts better an any they can paint
wonder some of um don't turn black sem
times, "a falsin' their color So. Now whel
| was a gal and CROWN up we had no sic
: doins as that in school, and the larnin til
gals got in them days was worth somethin
? think fulfilled the scripter when it Sc
: much larnin is tiresome to the flesh :;
for We went to school by sun up and stage
thar till sun down, and when we got out
: 60 home we was tired enough. Then "
: had no sich thing as Fe-los-er-fe, Fiz er-ol-c
; gy, Def er.na tions, Met er pol.o-gy, M
: tran-ony and Paintin' l mind once when
: was goin' to school, it was agin the rules
) paint, and | got some pok berries and pail
ted my face, and the master gin me pr
= per fogin' for it.
Ah me don't know whar the eend
u the falls notions will be. The school
experience is a very dear one, but sou
: folks won't larn in no other; and if the
: { wont Iarn before, they will larn when tn
e e world comes to eend, that it amt round
= = and if any of um is fortunate enough
= git to the good world above, they'll lal
. that the stars are not worlds, as they sa
/; they is and if any of um is unfortiDa
= enough to go down to the bad world they
= larn, too, that thars no sich folks lives
y the bottom side of the world as they sa
u u thar is. Piees print this for
y AUNT KIZZY.
Mount Pleasant, N. G.
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