The Archive · 1897

Then the Children

one sees, the babies, and the dogs! They are all of every known variety. Some mothers it seems to me will have much to answer for in the hereafter, when the small miseries they have inflicted are canvassed. For one thing, the way they dress helpless little girls of four and five years of age. Nothing is prettier than a' picturesquely dressed little id, but what can be said of a poor little mite of extra plain personal appearance, magot-up of High Dutch, 17th century amish, or other outlandish gear And the ridiculous infants, looking like monkeys on sticks, cannot' help themselves. They are just little lay figures on whom their tasteless mothers place unbecoming rags, 6f so-called wsthetic beauty.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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