The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-09


sichore is a sad sight to me; pot because
Terpsichore dances, for dancing in itself
may be as innocent as birds flying /;
not because she loves beautiful attire, for
exquisite dress is feminine fine art, as
meet for a woman as the flowers tint or
the birds plum age sigh at the sight
Of my pretty Tcrpsichore because the
first bloom OF her exquisite youth is being
exhaled and lost forever in a feverish
false atmosphere of being Something of
delicate sonsibiIity, something Of uncon-
scIous Innocence. something of freshness
OF feeling, Of purity OF soul. is wasted
with the fresh young bloom Of her cheek
in the midnight revel heightened into
morning wasted in the heated dance, in
the indigestible feast, in the wild, un-
healthy excitement through which she
whirls night after night. Terpsichore, in
her tattered tarlatan dress, creeping to
bed in the gray Of the morning, after
having danced all night, is sad sight
to see to any one rho can see her as she
is. Tcrpschore's mother would be a
sadder sight still, if she we're not vexa-
tious one. She brought back from Europe
the notion, which so many of our country.
women think it so fine to bring, that full
dress is necessarily next to no dress.
She tells You, in a supreme tone that al.
mlts no denial, that you would not he
admitted to the drawing room of court
in Europe unless in foil dress-viz., semi
nakedness Sho would be nothing if not
European IN style. Thus, night after
night, this mother OF grown.up daughters
AMI sons appears in crowded assemblies
IN attire that would beht in outline 8
child of eight years Of age.
Thus in republican Washington. in
glaring drawing g-roons. we are treated to
study OF female anatomy which is
appalling Don't jump to the conclusion
that want every lady to go to party
Ia a stiff dress, drawn up to her ears !;
nor that | am 50 prudi-h as to think no
dress en- b mo lcstly as we'll as immodest-
ly low. No matter how it be cut, the way
in which dress Is worn is more impress
7lse thln the dress itself | have seen
a young girls shoulders rise from her
muslin trock as unconsc,ou.ly and as in
poccutly as the lilies in the garden aud
have COM upol 4 wife and mother in
a public assembly SO dressed for promis-
cuons gaze that have involuntarly shut
my eyes with shame.
never saw Lydia Thompson but,
from rrhat ! h.ra Loorl or Lor Lo-o
came to the conclusion that her attire is
just as modest as that Of many ladies'
meet at fashionable parties They
cast up their eyes in horror at the name
OF poor Lydia Thompson They 60 to
see Lydia Thompson No, indeed How
could their eyes endure the sight Of that
dreadful woman? 10 less they them
selves offer gratis to a promiscuos COM
pany every evening a sight morally quite
rs dreadful. The men who pay their
money to Lydia Thompson and her troupe
know that their dress and their burlesque,
however questionable, make at once their
business and their livelihood. They can
not make the same excuse for their wives,
their sisters and their sweothearts. if they
see them scarcely more modestly attired
10 some fashionable ballroom. Remem-
heT this If you ever find yourself in such
place, the aeSj mn in that room at
arr are not delighted gith such displays.
He.n- men, they will look at whatever is
presented to heir glla more, many will
compliment and iltter the very women
whose vanity at heart they pity or despise;
5nt n viii always be- with mental reser-
'atIon, My wife should never dre's ike
that go
i don't want - ~ee ny sister dancing
round dances for hours in the arms Of a
man whom even | cannot think of with
ont horror and if-dances with him
again III not 20 to another German,
said Young man to his mother this very
winter. This perpetually the fact and
it is the danger and the shame of the
round dances. Young girls guarded from
babyhood from all contact with vice,tr
all knowledge OF men as they exist in
their own world of clubs aud dissipation,
Suddenly come out, :" TO whirl night after
night, anl week after week, in the arms
ofmen whose lghtest touch is proclamation.
II would be long before it would dawn
upon The girl TO dream Of the evil in that
mans heart far longer to learn the evil
Of hi, lite yet no less to her, innocent
ana Young in the very association and
contact there is unconscious pollution.
There is A sacredness in the very thought
of the body which God created to be the
human home of an immortal soul. Its
very beauty should be the seal its holi.
ness Everywhere in Scripture its sa.
credne>s l. recognized and enforced
Therein W. are told that saints bodies
are the temples Of God. We are COM
mauded to make them meet temples for
the indwelling Of the Holy Spirit Our
very dress, IN its harmony and purity,
should consecrate, not desecrate, the
beautiful home of the Mary Clem.
mcc times IN A7depeAdeM.
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