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Little New York Girls

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Day
5
Month
April
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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[Special Correspondence.1 New York, Jan. 16. - I am quite discouraged at the present styles of femala dress. And it is not alone the grown vromen who are burdened and deformed by the present modes. The curse falls quite as heavily on the little girls: misses of 10 or 12 years, aa I hear tbem in the parks or see them in their carriages, are crushed by the weight of their social position. Their precocity in dress just now exceeds anything heretofore known. Incredulous reader, the accompanying cut is neither a burlesque, an exaggeration nor a f ashion píate ; it presenta the girls of the middJe class (not the richest, by any means), exact types of thousands. Just suppose, fond mother, that your child had been --oro, with that hump on her dorsal vertebras- how you would have wept at the sight, how you would have hastened to Paris and London, if you had money enough, to employ the finest surgical talent to get it excised. And imagine the grown up woman with such a natural hump, like Nott & Glyddon's "Hottentot Venus." And is it any less a deformity (while it is on) because it is removable? Classic mythology tells us of a perverse artist who always molded hideous things ; once he combined all the elements of ugliness in the animal kingdom into a monster statne of horror, when Apollo, to punish nis bad taste, endowed the creature with lifa and made it the artist's companion. Is there not some such punishment in store for those f órnales who so horribly distort themselves, and thus pervert the public taste? Oh, I eould find it in my heart to pray the gods of good taste that one such woman might be made a lasting warning - That Gorgon, rising f rom the infernal lakes, With horrors armed and curls of hissing snakoa, Might flx her, etiffened in eternal sight, A stony image of supernal spite. Then, when the present fashion had passed away, all women might see how hideously unnatural it was, and avoid similar sins. Unfortunately this is to be desired rather tbau expecteu.

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