The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-08-23
Humanity to Animals and Humanity to childron
BABY BALL-eoERs AT Lone BRANCH.

u,o'uSA can ieau Che IolioWlng without
shuddering think it is because they have
lost all affection for their species. From
personal observation endorse every word
OF this Long Branch correspondents (Chi.
cage Iilbune) statement:
81 went on one of the excursions to Long
Branch short time ago, and was just in
season to witness the "Children's Grand
lit by lnnumerable chandeliers, and crowded
with airy, fairy children to the numb
OF 500. The admiring aud perspirinR
mammas and BONES, sitting around, were
making comments on other peoples child.
rem and the children themselves were re-
behavior generally of the elder folks.
When lovely gallop struck up, how the
little belles-wee toddlers, many of them
bowed and smirked to their rosebud in
buttonhole, white gloved, eight year -old
beaux! How these little pinks of polite
ness aped the manners and copied the
fashions of their elders How beautifully
their little feet few in the may intricacies
of tue dance How the little eyes sparkled,
and thu chicks flushed How these four
year a"d ten year Odds danced, and flirted,
ahI ate ices and dainties until the wee
sma ho"rs! looked in vain for a child
simply dressed in plain white, with her
l saw beautiful children, upnaturally
bright and precociously brilliant, befrilled,
befiounced, beruffled, with silk under
dresses and ovsrdresses of Valenciennes,
with hair dressed by hair dressers, and
gloves, fans, diamonds, and bracelets,
exactly like grown.np lady. Little mites
OF humanity, with all the style and airs of
twenty, and a certain dash and bravado
that were sad to see in a child. Little
misses of ten were deeply engaged in
firtations, with all the rolling up Of eyes,
turning up of rosy lips, and Struggling of
shoulders of the well trained coquette.
Boys, blase and nonchalant, were acting in
imitation of their sires; the girls found
time to criticise each others dress and hair,
and make rude remarks, just as they had
heard their mammas do. AS the night wore
on, the little misses-some of them at least
took tiny sips of champagne to keep up
the excitement; but the eyes were un-
naturally bright, and the poor little feet
tired and dragged heavily. I watched q
young, fashionable mother, who was look
ing with proud and smiling complacence at
her only child. She was q golden haired,
ethereal little beauty, six years old or there
about, most exquisitely attired in dress
OF pale pink satin, with overdress of finest
lace, with pink satin boots that Queen NAB
might have worn, dainty three button
gloves, sash and fan, diamond solitaire
earrings, and necklace with tiny pearl
iocket, and her lovely hair tiled up with q
paie-pink ribbon) crimped and frizzeG, aud
waved by an experienced hair coiffeur. Her
French bonnie had been cent to watch her,
lest she should soil her laces or disarrange
her sash; and, when the mamma called
her to retire to her bed, her tOne more
dan ce-Only one, mamma was heard in
successful entreaty.n
Bergh looks after our dumb animals. but
40 one takes any notice of this numbering |
If infants. Boys and girls, brought up as |
his correspondent describes, must inherit |
Ortune9 hpn0ma thiouoo on1 hs
me in hundred of these bedizened child
'en, after taking their tiny sips of cham
'agne," ever says q prayer. Their only
ak from the dance-room to the bed
'hamber is reiteration of "splendid,
oily, NICE" etc.
o spend precious hours dancing and david
ing; but that boys of ten and girls from
TX to twelve should be allowed to enter a
all-room, is sad, indeed.
Here ls another item from the Rondout
treeman that will amuse you:
On the ferry boat Lark, when she re-
urned from connecting with the express
rain over the Hudson River Railroad
gently, was one of Mr.. John Weber's
took wagons, and in tue wagon were some
alves and sheep, not with their legs bound
Dgether and their heads hanging over the
Ideboards, but standing up on all tours in
pen, with cover over it to afford them
|
as a genteefly dressed, bright eyed, mid
le-aged man, who took particular notice
all the teams and all their loads on board
le boat, and seemed particularly pleased
18th Weber's stock wagon and its contents.
inally this gentleman, after inquiring of
ferent persons, found out who was in I
large of that wagon and the stock, and
arching him out he thus addressed him
lave you charge of the animals in that
agon Yes, SIR Are you butcher p
[es.' Always carry your stock as COM :
rtable as that y Well, we always try to-
lifting his hand in his pocket, the ques- E
'ner drew forth twenty-five cent bill,
d presenting it to the person whom he
d questioned, said: when you get I
hore go and take glass of beer, and
ink good luck to the Society for the Pre-
ntion of Cruelty to Anima!s-I'm Mr.
rgh.'"
Letting calves and sheep stand up with a Is
yer over them to afford shade is humane
glecting to put eight. year old beaux" &C
:. little misses of ten" to bed at eight
lock ia inhUman. A,