Dress | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 26, 1871

Dress.

Butchers usually kill their victims before dressing them. Mothers frequently dress their children before killing them. We noticed an innocent little girl of about five years, in the street yesterday, dressed and pinched within an inch of her life. For health and comfort, she might as well have been in the embrace of a young anaconda. But though the pattern was scant, it was a love of a pattern, and the little creature wore a butterfly on her head, and of course it was all right, and she was a darling. How would one manage to have a game of romps, do you think, with such an anatomy of silks, lace and ribbons? One might as well attempt to romp with a fancy show-case. They have passed a law, and a very good one it is, to protect quails. We want another; a law to protect children. If they are afraid the race of quails will be destroyed, what are we to say of children? Why, there are places in this land of ours, where one can see five hundred epitome's of humanity without seeing a single specimen of an old-fashioned, red-cheeked, checked-apron child.—Boston Atlas.