The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-07-31

tn interior q . FasAionable Hose.
The New York Times, in recent ar
ticle on the "Morals Of Fashionable So
ciety," gives the following picture Of til.
interior Of an elegsnt residence, togeth
er with : portraiture Of its mistress. -
There is plain moral to the article -
Wealth, without intelligence, education
and refinement, can confer nothing upor
its possessors except splendid misery
That the picture here presented is moi
overdrawn, any one familiar with society
in our cities will testify:
Let as enter that magnificent house
with the brown stone front, and the win.
ter garden jutting out from the main
building, and one Of the shutters in each
window half closed, in order that the
passers b may see thst they arc n ~
ansst satin wood, decked out with gold.
Passing through hrge drawingrooms es
suite and divided by Marisco arches, w
softly enter the little boudoir on the left
where in the midst Of the dim light that
steals through the windows, stained palt
rose color, lady reclined in . luxuriou.
fauteuil reading. She is very lovely
her dress is oricntally rich and pictur.
esque, but an air Of terrible langucr over.
spreads her beauty. While she is finish.
ing that bad chapter in the worst Of Pau
de Rocks novels, we will tell you few
facts about her.
She was brought up to make a good
match. She left fashionable boarding
school at the age Of fifteen, with q per.
feet knowledge Of dancing, the French
language, and the art Of putting on q
shawl. A summer in q fashionable wa
tering place prepared her morals and her
manners for larger sphere Of society,
and at sixteen she made her debut. She
was the rage for two years, and wentevery.
where, but when vcrging on her nine
teenth year, her mother observed with
alarm that her appearance was beginning
to fade, and it was determined thar she
should marry forthwith; so she became
Madam before she was twenty. And
what sort Of a heart did she bring
her husband? One with youth aud
freshness, and purity to sanctefy their
intercourse? Pshawl what had she to dc
with such things! She was never young.
She was brought up from her cradle "a
look upon everything as moral that was
expedient, and when she married, mar.
ried for an establishment. Her husband
soon found out her heartlessness, and
took to clubs when his business hours
were over. And she has nothing to de-
all day long, but to sit in satin chairs,
and read corrupt French novels, and fiirt
with idle young men. Over that luxuri.
Gus home, there floats no angel of happi
ness. Its owners lead drcary sensua
life, miserable and splendid. None o.
those peaceful joys which less fashionable
people know are ever to be found there
Virtuous love shuns the place, and it,
mistress presiIes there in her beauty anc
magnifcence, haunted by nameless az
ony, like those gorgeous monarchs in tn,
hall of Eblis, who reigned in unceasins
pain. And thus her life wears on til
some day the bubble bursts.
And there was what might have beer
happy home destroyed forever by vi
cious system Of education, and false sys
tenn of society. Ii that girl had beer
brought up to look upon marriage as |
sacred responsibility, instead of an adsan
tageous settlement, if her heart had MOI
been indurated by her mothers ceasalesl
connsels to encourage only such men a
would make good partie--if she hac
been taught that women have other du
ties in life to fulfill besides dancing vel
and managing man--things might hav'
been different.
Our fashionable society in this city il
a shame, from beginning to end. 1t il
utterly unsound, depraved, and unnatur
al--a deceptive piece OF rotten wood
made to look shiny with French polish
and glittering with the phosphorescen
light Of corruption--a copper cent, try
ing its very best to look like five fran,
piece, and what is worse, in nine case
out Of ten, succeeding.