Fashionable Life | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 19, 1872

Fashionable Life.

If there is any environment which can degrade a human being or harden a young heart, it is the atmosphere of merely fashionable life. You may take the tenderest and most beautiful and lovely girl, the one that is kindest at home, and loves her father and mother best, and put her into the highest circle of fashionable life, with plenty of money and plenty of scope to do as she pleases; let her dress herself as she will; cover herself with diamonds and pearls, and costly silks and laces; let the love of admiration become the controlling passion; and by-and-by, all the tenderness of that young nature passes away; her thoughts concentrate upon herself, what figure she is cutting, who her admirers are, what conquests she can make; and by-and-by the youthful, beautiful modesty is gone, and the way is open for vice that, in the beginning, would not have been dreamed of, or, if thought of, put away as utterly impossible.