The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-06-24

Every literary, scientific or art In
stitution above the grade of a primary
school, is digni6ed in this region, by
the sonorous appellation of " College "
or .University."f Our city is happy
in the possession of a dozen or more
of these establishments, which turn
out their annual installments of prodi-
gies to illuminate the intellectual! ho-
rizon, or glitter on the brow of the
Republic" For the last ten days, we
have had continuous round of ami
versary exercises. and, if one may
judge correctly from the panegyries of
the daily press, enough of genius and
erudition have been turned out in the
shape of" graduates, from these collie
gate laboratories, to supply, any pos
sible demand for those commodities
in the worlds markell kss.5.i4 sa
Scores of young ladies, beautiful as
apoet's dream of Paradise, -illustra-
ting in their unapproac hable ssplen-
dor the greatest achievements or moo
ern art in the humiliation OF nature,
having passed through all the ma
.nipulations and studies prescribed in
a." finishing course" have, appeared
upon the stage in the final act of the
educational farce, stois stammer an
ESSAY" sing an Italian song, or ham
rner an ear-splitting melody cut of
piano-forte, and have passed away to
their rural homes, with a piece of
sheep-skin, all they have to show
FOR time and money freely spent. in vain,
TO make a fiasLy substitute tor BRAIN"
Judging from my own observation
of American life, | should predict
that these finished off" young la
dies have gone home j to be
waited upon by their mammals, while
they sit In theYparlor, read the New
York Ledger, sing over the few songs
that patient masters have perse-
Teringly drilled into their cranial re-
ceptacles, and smopingly dream away
the years while. they wait for the cur
tain to. rise forr the first sactsof the
farce matrimonial, the next In course.
But many of them will wait in vain,
for matrimonial bliss. isAa height OF
ecstacy that only a rich or rash man
aspires to, when the monthly bulletins
ofsfashion inform him that - no lady
can possibly dispense withla lace cloak
or shaw, ~ the cost of which is
modestly stated at 1.-TWO hundred to
nine hundred dollars" eee..as q,'a.
The same oracles also tell him that
/" false ears. false lips, false bosoms,
necks and calves are coming more
and more into general use, and that
in these Invaluable additions to a
fashionable toilet, nature is so per-
fectly initiated that the most prac-
ticed eye can not tell the false rom
thereal in promiscuous, assemblage."
Young men have a strange and OBJ
stinate preference for nature, and are
shy of linking their destiny with a
combination in which the artistic pre-
dominates over the natural. They
have prudent fear that, when once
securely bound in the meshes of the |
hymenial net, the fairy vision that
dazzled their ante-nuptial optics will
be dissoly ed that the bridal dressing
table will successfully compete, with |
the bridal couch for the pos
session .u'of personal : charms !; |
that love, however strong, can
lot survive the contemplation, in
the first hours of lunar sacharinity, of
a pile ofIn1anufactured hair complex
ion, teeth, ears, lips, neck, bosom
1t is serious fact that among our
native American. population the nam
Der of marriages grows less and less
from year to year. oEhe frugal. Ger
mans and Irish are the principal pat
rons of the County Clerks in the item
of marriage licenses They marry in
mutual poverty, and work out theird
fortunes in mutual economy and in
dustry. Read the weekly announce
ments of marriage licenses in this
county or in Yanderburgh, and it will
appear that not more than one-foursh |
Oh, the candidates for hymeneal ecstasy
are Americans. The effects aof this
enforced celibacy-enforced by FASH
Ionable extravagance-are visible OF.
every hand to the most casual Observ-
er. The family relation, the very
foundation of the social -structure. is I
destroyed, and the result 1of1this de- !
struction is tide of social vices toe 1
sickening to dwell upon. adov ~ IL
Besides our various female Ecol&
leges, which are quite as good as |
similar institutions !, in other cities,
and very much superior to many |
which make higher pretentions, we
have the North Western Christian |
University, an excellent school for,
boys and young men. 1t has a very T
corps of insuuetors, and
furnishes to an industrious youth.
good foundation for a thorough ed-4
ucation, which is all athatescan be !
acquired in college course" at any
such training is to take the conceit |
out of a fellow. to convince him by |
contact and competition with others