Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-09-30
a GREAT AND GROWING EVIL
PROPERLY TREATED.

We find the following in the New
York Tribune. 1t is taken from letter
written at Saratoga Springs, doubtless by
Mr.. GREELEY himself.
"Newport and Saratoga are called, OF
considered to be, the right place for chill
dren. 1t is so, and it is not so. What
they gain in health they loose in almost
everything else. 1 an always attached
to children. L adore nurslings and in
fants. provided they are kept clean and
nice; but do not dare approach those a
little older, they are SO awfully manner
ed. Sadness fills the mind, to see how
early infantine playfullness and grace
are frost bitten, and wither even before
budding. The passion for jewelry is
instilled in the cradle. 1t is disgusting
to see nurslings with rings and bracelets,
and so on upward through all gradaiions
of age.
1t is especially American, and we must
suppose this fashion as borrowed from
the Indians. Then, again, before they
can spell or read fluently, they "polk, r"
and are put bodily through the deform-
ing manipulation Of the dancing master,
as if the dancing master, could give that
genuine graceful department which the
French call tenue. Their little embryo
minds and hearts are already poisoned
with coquetry and love of show. They
have beaux, [ an expression considered
Vulgar, and nowhere used in Europe,
receive calls, boquets, make appoint
ments; rivalry and envy, in their ugliest
shape, early take possessions of their
souls. For years have observed this
disease all over the country, in all cities
where have seen society. Above ell,
it is painful to ones feelings at hotels
and watering places. When 1 see here,
in the evening. in the parlors. rows oI
these little dolls and fOps dressed, rib
doned, and jeweled, tanning themselves
monkey like, in imitation of the elder
part of society, l feel an almost irresist'
ible itching in the fingers 10 pinch their
mammas. Nurseries seem not to exist
! in America. In this respect, the manner
of bringing up children is far superior al
over the Continent of Europe. There
children are kept children as long as
possible, and all care ofparents and fami-
lies is bestowed TO watch over the tend
er blossoms, and preserve them from the
heating, unwholesome influence of parties
and motley company.
TWAS SO once likewise in England, un-
til the bad example given by the reign
ing Queen, who, in her own fondness for
numerous progeny, originated; or least
made fashionable, these juvenile pirties,
in which children equipped in all the
freaks and oddities of grown up persons,
represent withered dwarfs. Should fol-
low the prevailing absurdity of CHASING
virtue, qualities or oddities according to
races, this desecralion Of infantine natu-
ralness, should be called Anglo Saxon or
English. But it is disease, and as such
it may be human, or it may result from
certain companions Of social life. extend
ing beyond the contracted and exclusive
assignment of certain attributes, to Ger
tain races. One thing is. certain, that
no such bejeweled, affected, distorted
little creatures, as are to be met in Amer
lea, in streets, at juvenile and grown-up
parties, were called to Himself BY the
immortal teacher Of simplicity, love and
sincerity.