The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-03-16
Whist is to Become Of our Daughters.


This is a grave question, and all The
more 80 when we consider the tendencies
Of tho age and the manner ia which thu
fashionable, or would be fashionable, girl
are educated. Nova days young girls arc
intoxicated with fondness for dress, and
lest some should be so fortunate rs to es.
sape the influences of the ins:nuating poi.
son, foolish, silly mothers encourage them
in it. This Is the first and greatest trouble
that threatens our daughters, and to this
sin may be traced all the ills that blast the
female character and bring ruin and de-
etruction upon our homes. An inordinate
love for dress is in q woman what Intern
perance is in man-with the exception
that 1t is more insinuatipg and more de-
structive. This extreme love OF dress
which we 80 heartily condemn has on more
than one occasion been severely censured
by the Church, and wisely 30 too. Let us
| see how it effects the school girl. In for
enough for Catholic girls, for there was a
time when girls going to school were not
ashamed to be considered as schools girls
but DOW VIC must have the Select School,
and our young ladies ~ don't condescend
to associate with the poor, addressed Par
ochial schoolgirl. Is this Catholic 7
In former times, schoolgirls who attend
cd our Academies were required to wear q
neat aud genteel uniiorm-One was not al |
lowed to dress better than the other-girls
were taught, besides what their books
contained, how to sew, low to make their
own underwear and plain dresses-how,
in word, to be the women that God in
tended them to be, the helpmates of men,
the sharers of his joys and sorrows in
whatevcr'position in life their lot was cast.
Now a-days, alas, how different! The
schoolgirl has become a thing of the past.
She has given way to the young lady, who
exercises all her ingenuity land all fathers
means too) to out. do her companion in the
luality, style and number of her dresses.
Even this, bad as 1T is, might be borne with
Il these young ladies were only willing to
earn to make their own dresses. But is
8 not genteel to know how to sew, and as
% making dresses-why, what are poor
lressmakers for 7 What has spa" accumu-
ated means for Z No, the school-girl has
ve have the spoiled young lady, and
he useless, frivolous, trifiing lady, who, if
he condescend to become wife, lie so only {
D name. She has no sympathy for her hus
and-in fact she has no husband-he is !
My n banker-a fit candidate for the de- /
cutters and embezzler's prison. What +
ecomes of her who was married to him =
he may, if the grace of God does not en- 9
rely forsake her, fiud her way back to rec
tude If not-well, we will not venture to q
nswer. 1t may not be considered genteel u
n us to write in this way perhaps not d
70 uon care TO be considered geRteeL in
lat sense of the word. We write the truth, ?
Id what thinking men and women will u u
'ank us for writing, and we will go still -
rther. We say to the heads of fashionable "
;hools, Seminaries, Academies, and So p
!lled Converts, you can remedy this evil ~ ~
you will. If you do not, upon your con- III
fences will lie the fault. Teach our VI
.ughters to dress in a way becoming to &C
heol girls teach them the noble end III
r which woman was created-teach them vi
be useful to their mothers, no matter N N
rat may be their stations in life-tcach ut
em that it is one thing to be tidy and or
nteel, and another to be dressy-teach Ia ~,
en- to be economical and thrifty, instead On
being extravagant and useless-teach ste
am to be able to face any reverse of for Al
no that may overtake them, with courage te'
d with the fortitude of q true and holy ". ~
man teach them resignation to the will ln
God--teach them to yenufect before the WI
sssed Sacrament, and not to make a rid pr
ious aud un-Catholie bow, if we may ne
nifty it as such. pc
We may not be thanked for what we ITo
70 said in this article by the gehteel PEG SUI
we allude to. We didn't write for ni2
INKS. If what we have said strikes any COZ
> in particular, let them reform matters AT Az.
once-if we strike no one we raise our on
lrts in thanks to cd that our people are 100
from these Philadelphia Ca OF! ou
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