, 1873-02-02
TIE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE Or ROYALTY.

4ue uses u WHICH q man may ue put allc
death arc not always OF the most dgnifcd kind
| nor calculated to give human beings high de
gree Of respect for their bodies while living
! Neither the assertion that mani is made only
! little lower than the angels, nor Han1et's fn
picture Of what human body may be, can say
the average human body from being rather ridic
ulous, By reason Of the absurd coverings will
which tickle fashion clothes it, and from bainl
rather gross, by reason Of the equally absurt
material which is put into it. It is utterly i'm;
possible that the human body should possess
dignity, unless tailors and dressmakors can Be
compelled to quit dishguring it will
the products OF their needles and shears, and as
long as it is made the receptacle tor onions
rabbits, green tea, kraut, mince-pies, sausages,
and caviar. When that golden time comes, con-
corning which Professor Teutelsdroch discoursed
so eloquently, and when We can live upon am
brosia and nectar, the apples Of the Hesperides,
the pomegranates Of Cahul. and the honoyof Hy-
mettus, no objective elements will stand in the
way Of the. corporal dignity and beauty. Tho
handsomest faco that ever shone in reyel,
looks absurd after nights sleep. Venus her
sell, however radiant sne may have been rising
from the sea, would appear ridiculous rising
from nights rest in eleeping-csr. If it be
useless. however, to look for dignity
in the bodies Of average human
beings certainly TIC should be allowed to find it
in 1oyM bodies. II the King is hedged with di-
vinity, certainly the King'a body should pa1take
somewhat, ct least, Of the character Of the
hedge. Tho popular notion has always run in
this direction, although there have always been
iconoclastic doubters, who have believed that
the Kings body was no better or worse than the
peasants, and that whatever Of dignity it might
seem to possess grew out Of the trappings it
wore, and the pomp and sp1endor which sur
rounded it. These once removed, they have even
had the hardihood to assert that the Kings
body was not 80 good 3 body as that Of the
average man, because it had bean abused more.
striking instance Of the truth Of the icono-
clasts' theory is afforded by the recent c1rcun1-
stances attending the death Of Napoleon III
Here was man who believed, or profeased to
believe, that he had been specially created by
Divine Providence to minister to the interests OF
the French people, and that, without him and his
Napoleonio idea, France would speedily
20 to rack and ruin. Hero Was the
Fezy essence OF royalty. Surely such
nan as this shou1d have been compounded
II finer clay than the gross and brittle stuff Of
which the rest Of us are madc. He, Of all 9th
,rs, should have been the middle man between
humanity and the angels, sharing an equal d.
3ision Of celesti and terrestrial attributes. Els
ife, however, showed that there we're occasions
Fhen he was not an inch removed from the H.
liculous. 1t strasbourg and Bou1ogne he WIS
he clown in the royal world, and his antics made
II tho unroyal world laugh. In Paris, he was
n adrentu1er and Snowman. 1t Sedan, the
turdy, hard-hitting German shi7ered the Napo-
comic idea like glasa, aud the Napoleonic
ard-house fell to pieces at the first blow. Every
'estige pf royalty fell from him, and the outside
i Napoleon Was found to bo made OF no better
tuff than the outsides Of ordinary men. One
lusiop thus mas dissipated. Anothar cruel one