Year: 1866

deforGity, but we will not We will
simply refer to them, and assure our
male readers that there are such things,
and that they may be detected on our
women on the streets every day in the
week, for they are worn by nearly all
women from the highest to the lowest.
The ladies Q) on the avenues, and the
women of Wells street, alike appear in
them, and the modesty Of the latter is,
in this particular, quite as great as that
in the former.


The waterfall, birds nest, and other
gear which the women have been disfg-
uring their heads with of late, were bad
enough. The sight of them was always
unpleasant, because they were unnatu-
raj and ugly, and the feelings against
them was increased with the thought
that in all probability the hair which
composed them was shorn from the head
Of a smallpox patient, or lunatic, or
corpse. These things we did not care
much about. The wearers were salts
fed and pleased, and we had no reason
to complain, Neither did we care a
great deal when they took to disfguring
the "human form divine" with such
things as gave the upper portion of their
bodies voluptucus appearance. Out
rageous as this was, it was modest
proceeding in comparison with what is
now being done. False calves, Of
course, would be of no use unless they
could be displayed to the gaze OF men,
and therefore, following the introduc-
ton of this infamous fashion, we have
hoop skirts made for the express pur-
pose Of showing them off to the best adj
vantage. How any female, with the
slightest pretension to modesty, can in
dulge in these scandalous exhiAitions it
is impossible to conceive. Yet if one of
them was charged with immodesty her
Indignation would know no bounds.
AS an eastern paper suggests, every one
of them should be indicted by the au-
thorities for willfully and knowingly ex-
posing her person, and punished in ac-
cordance with the laws bearing upon
that offense. We see them on the
streets; we see them in the theater; we
see them simultaneously sailing up the
aisles of our churches; in fact we see
them in every place. With unblushing
faces their wearers tilt them in our very
faces wherever we go, and with all the
airs of the wanton turn to see the effect
produced upon the men who are gazing
after them. If they knew the remarks
that are made, the sneers, the inuendos,
the jeers that are passed by fashionably
dressed blackguards who congregate
here and there on the streets for the ex-
press purpose Of seeing them display
their legs, they would fly to their homes,
their cheeks burning with shame, and
would never be seen in public again un-
til they had forgotten their disgrace
Well may it be asked-"What are we
coming to!" Have our women lost
every sense of decency? Have they
forgotten that they are women? Have
they forgotten that their common moth
er sought to cover her nakediess when
she knew that she was so? Do they
know that they, by following these scan
dalous fashions, are doing what no pa.
gan woman ever yet discovered would
do? Shame on you, ye women OF
America. Do not your cheeks tinglt
with an honest blush as you think o.
this Go back to your homes-hidt
yourselves in your chambers, and lei
not the world look upon you again un
til you have recovered your modesty
and your honor.-Wicago Post.