enough to carry
her through any situation. Yet, in judging her, one must view her as a
butterfly, as a mere creature of magnificence and frivolity. Don't seek
to analyze her character as a wife or mother. You may find that the
marriage vow is broken on her part as well as on her husband's; and you
will most probably find that she has sacrificed her soul to the demands
of fashion, and "prevented the increase of her family" by staining her
hands in the blood of her unborn children. Or, if she be guiltless of
this crime, she is a mother in but one sense--that of bearing children.
Fashion does not allow her to nurse them. She cannot give to her own
flesh and blood the time demanded of her by her "duties in society;" so
from their very birth the little innocents are committed to the care of
hirelings, and they grow up without her care, removed from the ennobling
effect of a mother's constant watchful presence, and they add to the
number of idle, dissolute men and women of fashion, who are a curse to
the city.

Your fashionable woman is all art. She is indeed "fearfully and
wonderfully made." She is a compound frequently of false hair, false
teeth, padding of various kinds, paint, powder and enamel. Her face is
"touched up," or painted and lined by a professional adorner of women,
and she utterly destroys the health of her skin by her foolish use of
cosmetics. A prominent Broadway dealer in such articles sells thirteen
varieties of powder for the skin, eight kinds of paste, and twenty-three
different washes. Every physical defect is skilfully remedied by
"artists;" each of whom has his specialty. So common has the habit of
resorting to these things become, that it is hard to say whether the
average woman of fashion is a work of nature or a work of art. Men marry
such women with a kind of "taking the chances" feeling, and if they get a
natural woman think themselves lucky.

IV. FASHIONABLE CHILDREN.

As it is the custom in fashionable society in New York to prevent the
increase of families, it is natural no doubt to try to destroy childhood
in those who are permitted to see the light.

The fashionable child of New York is made a miniature man or woman at the
earliest possible period of its life. It does not need much labor,
however, to develop "Young America" in the great metropolis. He is
generally ready to go out into the world at a very tender age. Our
system of society offers him every facility in