The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-01

tan, showing forth in the clearest light its
beauty, yea, its grandeur and sublimity,
and not forgetting the defects. He then
searched among men and classes of men
of the present, for the likeness of those
God fearing men Of old. Did he find
them, perhaps is curiously, doubtingly
asked? Yes, but the specimens are too
rare. Garrison, Phillips, Lincoln were
named as prototypes of that individualism
which characterized those older champi-
ons and martyrs of liberty. The radicals
are the true Puritans, dragging along and
upward the sluggish conservative world.
He piticd the young man that was con-
scrvative, but old men we're excusable.
His comments on, and descriptions of
the fashions of to-day were amusing in
the extreme, though he struck home, l
am inclined to think, with some of his
hearers. The lecturer drew sad photo
graph Of American Society, and all re-
mark how true Yet there are as many
who dare for the right, and while they
maufuly uphold the principles for which
our forefathers fought and died, we can
exclaim,-
Not wholly lost, oFathcr is this evil world
Of ours"
The angel of death has again visited our
community and his choice was from the
youth. lie took into his embrace young
lady, lovely and beloved, and left the pa
rents, but lately bereaved of their only
son, to mourn in their loneliness their
only daughter. The cause Of the death
proves the terrible hold accursed Fashion
has on the ladies Of our day, and among
its victims are the pure and the good.
Tight lacing killed the poor, foolish girl
To such fearful exten: had this pratice
been INDUCED in, that the ribs were found
Tapped over one another, and the breast
bone was pressed over one lung so that
she had entirely lost its use. For sever
a months previous to her death, this one
victim has been obliged to sleep with cor
sets on and frightened to the last notch,
for the looscning gave such pain in the
internal expansion that she could not bear
it. This is but one instance, we have
heard of several similar cases within a
short time. There is child not out of
Windsor County whose head is Hattened
on either side as though pair of squecz-
ers had been applied to it, ana there has.
The mother has laced her child into that
inhuman shape. Who can tell what mis-
cry is caused not to this generation alone,
but on, on, by the unwomanly passion for
IA small waist ? An armful is better than
handful, and if men were sensible
enough to think that Gods form given to
woman is better than any artificial one,
corscts would be laid away in the garnet
as relics Of past folly, and we would see
the buxom women Of good old times. On
ly vanity will bear such compression, and
devotces to this abominable custom are
not satisfied with such inhuman pressure,
but they want the human pressure of an
arm. The eye of man to see the delicate,
slender waist and mans arm to encircle
it, fully repays for all suffering The best
that We can say for such is that their bod.
les are too large for their minds, and they
are narrowing them down to form an equi-
/ librium.
Chester needs Graded School, and a
large share of the people, including all
the live and growing men, favor the project.
A few drags hold back and their weight
more than balances the go-aheadativeness
of the majority There is one man here,
a lawyer, and Of course a prominent man,
who has begun to fossilize 1t is working
out. He is to be buried in a pcrpendicu-
lar position to economist. If some spec.
ulator would mark his grave, we might
have a Chester Giant excitement in flu.
ture. His hands will be at the lowest
depths of his pants pockets clutching two
nickel cents. KARP.