, 1866-06-29

| senool education" having been com
Pieesu ior girls, now, BY doting mothers who
ADMIRE 'aeeomplshments" which they thiul
queer, but accept as the fashions of the "besl
soeley, the next thing is to "get into" this
WONDERFUL good society" To do This, Yankee
ingenuity has devised living in city hotels ia
winter and at watering places 10 summer. Per.
maps the Kind mamas urge ther daughters to OBJ
serve carefully, and copy the manners of the
"hne ladies" they see. Perhaps the daughters
exert tnelr tact in doing it themselves. A lady
Alehu rom the country came to town last week
ana told a near friend Of ours that she had tried
TO get corset made, but was told that 1t could
not De cone under two weeks, because all hands
In the large establishments she visited were en-.
gagged 10 making false calves for ''ladies" who
wore tbs fitting hoops
through several fas srs frEWg Sbygeb
women walking with tilting skirts from where
they had been pretending to say their prayers;
ana on all the corners, and hotel-fronts we saw
rows OF well-dressed blackguards standing oh
serving and laughing and commenting on What
! these women were exhibiting.
cut on this indecency that would disgrace
honest Pagansl Let every modest woman who
has been tricked into getting these traps of the
haTlot as the latest "fashion," pull them of and
ourn them Let every parent see TO- il that his
| gulItless daughter is not disgraced by "follow-
ing this fashion" Let masters of households do
the charity to a servant-maid that has KENT mn
with the "fashion," to provide her with such as
are modest, and forbid her, while in his house,
| TO play the airs Of a wanton
why, even In Pagan times, when the men
abandoned themselves to the most vile Drscti-
ces, they tried 70 keep their women uncorrupt
Mhat are we coming to2 Is it not here cues
uon oil kepubllcanism or Imperialism 1t is not
a question of free government or despotism. II
Is question of the existence of families and of
society. By the memories of our virtuous moth
ers, oy our love for our wives and daughters,
let US stop these public outrages and put under
the surveillance of the police impudic women.
Let us make a remark on the latest outrage
and lndecency of "fashion." A few weeks AGO.
on muddy day, we saw walking, some ways
Deiore us, pitiable object In the distance. il
resemoIed poor German peasant woman, with
her snort petticoat coming below the knee
IheFe is nothing immodest in that peasant dress
Ihe Herman peasant walks with her ankles ex-
posed, but their is no illusory pretence of cov-
erlng them.) The poor creature we saw seemed
TO be such an one, with a huge clotLes-lipe
strung around her, on frame, on which she
seemed 10 be carrying various gegaw dresses for
ulHertnt people. She seemed to be the humble
erand-grl OF some dress=maker's establishment.
On passing the unhappy creature, we noticed
that she was sailing along with the idea that the
dresses hanging around her shoulders were her
own, ald she looked as modest and uncOncerned
as if she were really decently covered. Sneak
ing oft TO those more au fdif in such matters
We fcdnd that such kind of dress is call the
rage for some time past. 1t is effected on pur.
pose, by having hoops made with a sbarp and
stiff curve at the foo, that will tilt the dress
above, and expo. the legs to the knee. Auutirr1
"Prsgress' keeps pace with it. 1t has been told
N tie daily papers, but we rarely believe any
thing we see in them. A very truthful, woman !
hoNever living, says those are the .'fine ladies'
whodisplay th=ir rich brocades, and jewelry |
andgaudy dresses on the streets, and in public |
con'eyances, and at hotel tables So harlots |
are letting the fashion of dress and behavior for |
the daughters Of this people. 1t seems it is |
enoIgh to say it is the ''iashionp to make it a |
pleafor following it.
Ole of the latest fashions has been to have
daniug soirees at Delmonico's in Fourteenth |
STREET, "for young people" A rule of this fash
ion that no parents or guardians are to be ad-
mited. We did not believe the statement when
it WIS first made in some of our city PAPERS But |
we have it now on good authority that it is true,
and that, this past winter, fathers and mothers
have permitted their daughters to 60 to those
soir'es with young men, to sup and TO dance,
and to come home with them at three or four
O'Clock IN the morning. Just put it in plain
language: young girls in this city do moi find it
a bDt on their characters to go with young men,
uua.c .companied by their parents, to a public
tayrn, to dance and eat and drink with them,
and to come home with them toward daylight
We are not the least in the world astonished
to lear that in what-it must be by irony-are
called Hthe better classes" of society, there has
beer prodgious falling off of marriages. The
marrel IS, among any classes of society that do
not draw sharp lines of non-intercourse with |
thigwhoe world of indecencies and with all that
tolerate them, that so foolish thing as mar
riags is ever dreamed of. Among such people it
is not surprising that the number of divorces l
should exceed the number of marriages.-N. Y.
Freaaan'S Journal.