The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-08-05
Which the Angels are unclOsing.
TOO TRUE By HALF.

Tho following we find copied in the
Cincinnati Enquirer from a Massachu-
sets paper. There is more truth in it
than we often find in articles on this sub
ject. Let the mothers and daughters
read il and reflect upon the truths there
in. It is more applicable, it is true, to
large cities, but we may assert truthful
II that many of its illusions have direct
application to city-apiug village parents
and daughters, and sometimes to those
in the arural districts"
"More than four-sevenths of the mar
riages in Massachusetts, are among the
foreign horn. Why is it? For the most
simple of reasons: the foregn born can
afford to get married aud the native born
Cannot, and this must be SO long as our
-extravagaat modes o. life continue. In So
ciai life there never was a people tending
to deeper and more destructive social cor.
ruption-and that is most evident from
the records of the court snd the columns
of all the newspapers-than Americans.
Our fathers used to tell of the profiga-
cy of Paris; their children tell of the
mysteries of New York; city not far
be hind any in Europe. And, making
proper allowances for size how far is New
York ahead of our other cities and towns?
Once was the time when a wife was a
ahelp ment; now, in a thousand of cases,
you can change the "meet" to "eat,'
and make it read more t%ruthfully.
We boast of our system of education;
we have females high schools. female col
leges, female medical schools, and fe-
male heavens. Our girls:are refined,
learned and wise they can sing, dance,
play pianos, paint, talk Freuch and Ital-
ian, and all the soft languages, write PC
etry, and love like Venuses. They are
ready to be courted at ten years, and can
be taken from school and married at ff-
teen, and divorced at twenty. They
make splendid shows on bridal tours;
can eoquette and firt the watering pla-
ces, and shine like angels at winter par
ties. But Heaven be kind to the poor
wretch that marries in the fashionable cir
Giles. What are they at washing fccr. ?
Oh, We forgot: nobody has bare floors
now-how vulgar that would bel What
are they at making bread and boiling
beef !? Why, how thoughtless we are
to be sure thy will board or have serv-
ants. What are they at mending cloths?
But there we are again; the fashions
change so often that nobody has old
cloths but the rag man and the paper ma
lkers nowl What are they at washing
babies faces and pinning up their trow-
ssrsP And here is our intolerable stu
pidity once more; having childIen is left
to the Irish ! What lady thinks of hav-
ing children about her now? or if she is
so unfortunate. don't she put then to wet
nurses to begin with, and boarding
schools afterwardP We repeat-we have
come to a point where youngmen hest.
tate and grow old before they can decide
whether they can marry. and afterward
keep clear of bankruptcy and crime.
What is the consequence ? There are
more versions living a single life-are
there more leading a ~virtuous life? 1t is
time for mothers to know that the ex-
tIavagance they encourage is destructive
of the virture of their ehileren. that all
the foolish expenditures making to rusin
their daughters to matrimony, are, in.
stead of answering that end, tending to
destroy the institution of marriage alto
gether.n