Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-16

come out with her dress below her
shoulder blades, and gold strap for all
the sleeve thought necessary, the girl OF
the period follows suit next day and
then wonders that men sometimes mis-
take her for her prototype, or that moth
ers of girls. not quite SO far gone as her
self refuse her as companion for their
daughters. She has blunted the fine
edges of feeling so much that she cannot
understand why she should be condemn
ed for an imitation of form which does
not include imitation of fact; she can
not be made to see that modesty OF ap-
pearance and virtue ought to be INSOFAR
able, and that no good girl can afford to
appear bad, under penalty Of receiving
the contempt awarded to the bad. ~
This imitation of the demt-ntonds in
dress leads to something in manner and
feeling, notquite so pronounced, perhaps,
but far too like to be honorable to her.
self or satisfactory toher friends. Itleads
to slang, bold talk, and rashness to the
love of pleasure andindifferenee to duty;
| to the desire of money before either love
or happiness; to uselessness at home,
dissatisfaction with the monotony of
ordinary life, and horror of all useful
work in word, to the worst forms OF
luxury and sclfishness, to the most fatal
effects arising from.,want of high prin-
ciple and absence of tender>leeling.
| The girl Of the period enviss the queens
of the denai-monde far more than she
abhors them. She sees them gorgeously
attired and sumptuously appointed, and
| she knows themyto be fiattered, feted,
and courted with q certain disdaiiHul
admiration of which she catches only
the admiration while she ignores the
disdain. They have all for which her
soul is hungering, and she never stops
to reflect at what q price they have
bought their gains, and what fearful
moral penalties they pay for their sensu-
GUS pleasures. She sees only the coarse
gliding on the base token, and ahuts her
eyes to the hideous figure in the midst
and the foul legend written round the
edge. 1t is this envy of the pleasures
and indifference to the sins, of these
women of the demi-monde which is do
ing such infinite mischief to the modern
girl. They brush too closely by each
other, if not in actual deeds, yet IL aims
and feelings for the luxury which IL
bought by vice with the one is the thing
of all in life most passionately desired
by the other, though she is not yet pre-
pared to pay quite the same price. I'm
fortunately, she has already paid too
much, AL that once gave her distinc
tive national character. No one can say
ta,tnr Jo,,;,,a. ratir;,nenr JH,nast;c :
,rho oi1 fo,it 81 oftan fonnd hv Fear
simtt mH tod I Eranoh,vanoan lS ~ FRAT sbS was .,
fatally rOBlanSeqte, so prone to sacrifice
appearances and social advantages fo
love, will never be set down to the CIR
of the period. Love indeed Is the las
thing she thinks of, and the least of th'
,i'ate esa5not;,o drsn,,, wLioH ,,sad to x,s,
tt,a tiia' .ut a,d d;s,,'rI, tha on,omIoti"ns .
'r,,dant n,ntharo ;s NV a r,vth NJ no a
pauery tTha IannI artar Of h.rsa,s fir .a g,
nSoe pneh n,ana, yanrnsant,nn sn n,nch das%
sa 40 ,,,noh Il, y,,,v anJ riaosura Nthat i
o %or ' ;da, os nSyorrisge % p the onlv ;da,
,rnrth antopt,in;na
VIZ" Tcr sII Snr;nnsnss. of Thought resnsct
i,, the duties or the consenuences q
f ,ns srn;aaa s,u a sIa ha. not n trooa IF chill
dra,, oH,,,a tSaw I'D hut n stsnmothar,
oaid ,voIno,n,a .ay SSon, b.r. .nS II her hus
Somd So,u | tIinIa thot ha Ia. n,orried anv
thi,i. p,u ttat 10 ,n hainn@ 10 him "a toce,,
aI,'itS,oona ,,,o,. nIadyed to ,n.La hin
hpt hnnny the SOONER he wakes from hi
ha afImci ~ otion and undorsto nds that h,
has siJnnIv ,narried some one who vii
condascand 70 amend his monev m her
self and who Will shelter her indiscre
tions hshind tba sbield of his name th,
less severe will be his disappointment-
she has norried his house his earrage
hia hoIanca ,t the hanker,a his titfs
nnd ba himself is imst the inevitsbl
conditian cIogoin0 the wheel of her for
tune Mt hest nm sliunct to he tolerate,
with more or less notience as NAV chanoe
Yer N is only tha old -fashioned sort No
airla of tho 1eriod ,,,,,. aonn that p,.rr,
For love or mt tha husband hefore III,
honker mt she does not marry easily
Men are afraid of her: and with reaso,