The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-13

as to require every year some new ana
meretricious aids to make dwarfs and ske-
lctons appear like full-sized human beings.
Among the English, the most highly civil
lied classes are the most ruddy, healthy,
and best proportioncd. Among savages
there is a prepondcrance of Informed, ILL
developed people, the natural result of
their ignorance in respect to the laws that
promote health, symmetry, and beauty.
America displays its civilization not in
so applying science as naturally to I'LL up
the cavities and round off the corners, and
preserye the vigor and comeliness of the
BODY, but in so perverting them as to make
its citizens prematurely toothless, hairless
or grey. pale, heshlcss, wrinklcd, attenu-
ated in the extremities, and generally frail
and impcrfect; and then, contriving the
greatest variety of devices to make the
old appear new, the dry appear fresh, and
the pale become ruddy, the caterer and
confcctioner, the dancing master, the ven-
dor of wine and strong drink, and the
leaders of fashion and pleasure, are in
league with the apothecary, the doctor, the
dentist. the wig and waterfall-makcr, the
dealer in false ankles and calves and pal
pitatine machines. The one class pulls
down the fabric of humanity, that the
other may build it up.
Thousands of heads and hands are busy,
and millions of dollars enter into commerce
from the trade in hair-dyc and hair, teeth,
paint for the checks, perfumery to toimprovc
the breath, and machines IT, make every
part of the body false, from the crown OF
the head to the sole of the feet, excepting
ALWAYS false hearts, for which 1t Is to be
apprehcndcd there will not be for long
time any considerable demand, the supply
being already very large.
The latest invention-th palpitating ma :
chinc-which, by the pressure on spring
under one of the arms, makes the bosom
gently heave at the will of the wcarer, caps
the climax. We are ready to say the force
of fgcnius can no further 90. But there are
vet new triumphS to be won in this field OF
invention. Man is destined still further to
recedc from the view of his tcllow-man
under an artistic supcrstructurc, and wo-
man will hide herself more and more un-
der q superintendent mass Of foreign mat
ter. 1t used to be said ait takes nine
tailorS to make 4 man." There is sense
in which more than nine professional
tralesmcu and artficcrS are required 10
produce one human being, male or female.
We confess our utter inability to give an
approximate estimate as TO the actual
number of experts required in this pro-
cess. There are required to manipulate
about the head alone the dentist, The pain
ter, the icwcllcr, the wig and waterfall
men, the starch-makcr, the brcath-pcr-
iumcr, &C., &c.-but We t"rbcar; it is not
safe to prosecute such an inquiry as this,
even il we were competent. We have not
time to explore the arcana OF those arti-
zanS who are engaged in all the depart
mcnts by which the human race is now
made and continued. The subject is too
vast, and we leave it to those TO whom it
properly belongs. We turn for comfort to
a fat friend who, without disguise, over
laps large chair, and weighs three hun
drcd pounds avoirdupois. He is solid
island, upon which our vision rests amid an
ocean ofdeformity, dmiuutivcncss and de-
ccption. After all that is said about
rotund and bcligerent aldermen, they
rise and grow in our estimation as the con-
Scrvators of genuine heshy humanity.