The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-17
(For the Morning Star.l -.,.
OUR NEW ORLEANS LADIES.

The fair daughters of our State have Of
late been the object of the most defamatory
assertions, which are now circulating freely
through the Northern PaPers, ;.t h1 1stna
ing. in their minds, our institutions and GUS
toms, have now turned their poisoned shafts |
against the ladies they whom we thought AZ
least shielded by the respect due TO their seq.
The latest Of these interesting cores
1vaIawcke, and which is from the pen Of
gentleman, who, as one Of our cotemHoEa-
Ties has remarked, should be one OF the
first to defend the fair fame Of the iadies
Ccisin Nourma-for such IL the gentle
mans ssom de plume mature dehb-
| GRAFTON. has come to the extraordinary
conclusion that there are very odd fashions
extant in our city. How strange that there
should be odd fashions in New Orleans
of a population Of over two hundred thou
sand souls which has less odd fashions of its
own than our poor, viffed city: Had we
but the time to sketch the odd fashions OF
Gotham, Of the Hub, Of the moral Quaker
would show Mr.. Cousin Nourma that, hap
PLY, we are far behind the age in that sort
} of civilizations.
, But let MS examine more infinitely the
gentleman's letter, He says that it is pop
! 1lar for the Ladies' of this city to affect
II
traordinary assertion, we will show the gen
j tleman how inconsistent he is, and how
/ unwittingly he contradicts himself.
a Six lines further on, he says that the
!. climate being very warm, people like te
# keep ceol-a necessary consequence-and
I therefore, the. low-neck style of dress il
4 very properly much apparent.
= Does the gentleman think, and do any
Il of our readers think, that lady-mark the
5, word, we say q lady-would affect plump
ness and use plumpers OF every ,@agna an;
1t parade publicly her own imposture why
y lie len men .aas pas la chandelte; and, besides
le the ladies do not affect fairness for, thougl
~ we are not blest with " a pair of paten
r double million magnifylng gas microscope
ID of hextra power,'' we are, nevertheless, abb
n to see every day that the contrary is tn
at case. Our ladies, with their short dresse
Is and diIainutive hoop skirts, at dlstanc
lg appear more like children than grow
,g women; and, if they affect any thing, on
re readers viii agree with us that it is youth
No fulness and slenderness, by which we mea
L. elegance. What our friend says of the to
It's indulgent use of cosmetics and brick dus
as he calls it, is true er parte.
ly The great fault of all correspondents
es that they are too prone to generaiize: Ihel
an are such specimens of humanity whom OF
ea Cousin Nourma calls ladies-but on whol
~ we even reluctantly bestow the appellate
ps= of women-who strut on our publ
thoroughfares dressed and daubed as
re describes them. But who are they Al
nd they our New Orleans ladies Are they tho'
he ladies who, during the last six years, hay
80 merited the wen-deserved appeliation
an, an the Clelias, the Cordehas, and the Ports
r es of the nineteenth century No, thank Go
nj, they are not But they are those dehca
to tends imported by ship loads from Il
Of moral States of Massachusetts,, Connection
ut and New York, to swell our market, and
Ar. teach our young men the ways of sin AZ
I'd iniouity. Such is a true statement wi
al regard to our New Orleans fashions, in
mr. ported from the North, but never adopt'
on by our ladies.