New-York tribune., 1871-04-20
MADEMOLSELLE EROU-FRONN

Verify The ways of Boston are past finding
ont. The naughty French play of Frou-Frou
received little federation from its moral public;
vet the greatest attraction OF the French Fair
which is now absorbing the AtheniaD time and
pocket is wonderful doll named MADE
"moisclle Frou-Frou." There were Worccsters
unabridged and BOstOn's animated dictionaries
to choose from, but the fashionable mind pre-
fcrred to he nothing if not immoral. 1t suited
the word to an action that will do more harm
to Boston than the money from it can ever do
good to France.
Here is Il woman who deliberately goes TO
work to illustrate in doll all the frivolity
and extrayagance of her sex, with the inten-
ton of having that counterfeit pIescntmenp
adOrn the play-roOm of some American child,
possibly her own. This model Boston woman
spends weeks upon Mile. FrOu-FrOus wardrobe.
She arrays this little bit of wax and sawdust
in pink mOire antique, real point Lace, and real
jewelry. She prepares no less than twelve
gorgeous Suits all of which are of the haAd-
somest silk and many of which are trimmed
with the most expensive lace. For every dress
there are correspOndingly gorgeous under
clothes, boots, hats, handkerchiefs, fans,
parasols, kid gloves &C., &c. There are
pearl card-case for visiting, lOrgnette for the
theater porte -mOnnaie for shopping, camels'
hair shawl, seal-skin coat, and every article
dreamed of by the most extravagant woman that
ever drew breath in the old world or the new.
And having conceived this monstrosity, the
Boston woman sets Mile Frou-Frou on table
at the French Fair surrounds her with the
aforesaid impedimenta, and calls upon the pub
lie to admire and to invest in shares. The
public Obeys willingly. Men and women sur
round the doll, three deep, and gloat upon the
exhibition as they would gloat upon a fashion
able "opening" "Stunningw exclaim the
men. Perfectly splendid" excaim the
women; while the discOntented few transfer
their disgust of Frou-Frou to disgust of human
beings who can cOuntenance so hagrant an
immortality; for anything that debases youth
is immoral, and the child who falls heir to
that doll cannot fail to learn more lessons in
friyolity than can be unlearned in years. AS
the twig is bent the tree is inclined. viii the
little miss be content to wear calico when her
doll wears sikf viii she be satisfied with
two or three dresses and one hat and one pair
of boots when her doll has dozens Will she
wear cotton gloves when her doll scOrns
everything but Paris kidf Will she re-
tain the simplicity of childhood when
her doll is perpetually poisoning her eyes with
a complete picture of the girl of the period
Children are so like monkeys in their imi-
tative prOpensities as almost to lead one to be-
leve in Darwins theory regarding the origin
of species, and whoever would bring them
up in the way they should go will ms quickly
open the front door to smallpox az to that
breeder of moral disease, Mile. FrOu-FrOu.
OF all the dolls on exhibition at the French
Fair-and their name is legon-few are fit for
other than children born with gold spoons in
their mouths and a certainty of inheriting the
Kingdom of MammOn. What wonder that 80
many women are extrayagant dolls, when 80
many dolls are extravagant womenf