The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1871-04-13
rnE ENAMELING OF WOMEN


A Curious aud Interesting Description
of how Fashionable lDomea are
Painted and Pdddei IN New York
-Uhms and + icotties of hc day.
Our country readers, who live in all
the simplicity of nature, and know ne
other adorning but that which their
own beauty Of form and face, in most
instances, so amply coniers upon them
will hardly believe that the fashiona-
bic women Of New York ignore nature
altogether, and rely exclusively upon
art for their "make up" They send,
" did send, to Paris-until tho war
came and spoiled their marketings-
tor oil their millinery aud dressmakiug
which they put upon their persons,
and cared nothing for the cost, provi-
ded only that the courtezans-whO
dictate the fashions TO all the monicd
aristocracy of that city, and to cod
fishes generally throughout the world
should also set tho fashion for them
in tho instance of the dresses and
bonnets which they ordered and in
which they designed to astonish society
and its drawing.rooms.
For it must be understood that Paris
society is divided into two aristocra-
cies, one of which VIC have already
taken n glimpse Of, viz: the aristocracy
Of wealth aud liccntiousncss, and the
other, which We now Introduce as the
genuine aristocracy of rank, manners
and refinement. Tho ladies' Of the
latter class dress in the plaiuest and
simplest style, although of the richest
and most costly materials, making q
very distinct and decided contrast to
the ladies of the world Of fashion ruled
over so supremely by tho kept women
ofthe court and the rich roues Of the
city A real lady may be known at
once, therefore by ber dress, and so
may tie handsome queens. aforesaid
by theirs. The one aims at and achieves
the utmost elegance and decorum in
her toilet; the other devotes all her
wit apd wealth TO 'out-Herod Herod'
in extravaganza and display, and thinks
nothing of putting hundred francs
upon her back.
1t is this class that the fashionable
women of New York are so passion
ately eager to initiate, and, If possible to
Out-vie. These arc the pretty empty
heads who call themselves conssrva.
tives, forsooth and who yet live so
fest that they have no ceptripetsl force
left in them, but are oil outsides, and
may vanish any minute into centrifu-
gal nonenity. They affect high morals
notwithstanding Hsmlet's advice
10 his mother IN this regard, when he
tells her to "assume virtue though she
hos it uot"-and this is the sum and
substance Of their conscience. They
like, however, to be esteemed by their
sol as "proper womeu.n and hence
they .'run a.muck" Of all the greal So
cial reforms of the time, abhor what
they call the "nanly women'-women
that Ia to say, whose intelleots are too
big to let them submit to the slavery
Of society, who knowing their own
strength and rights a. citizens Of the
Republis. will liva-.fres and untram..
msled lives, and demand that they
shall hAvs equal recognition with men
In Ill ths departments of society and
governusnts. Theis women ere TIE
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