Objections to Fashionable Children's Evening Parties
INDECENT, immoral, imprudent, and almost everything else that is bad, are the children's parties which are so fashionable in some circles at this season. There is no objection to an old-style children's party in the afternoon and very early in the evening, but when it comes to dressing boys and girls up in the last styles from Paris, keeping them out till near midnight, and putting them through a regular course of two or three hours' dancing, with a hot supper at ten, it is time for a protest from all who are interested in the preservation of public health and public virtue. We wish fathers and mothers who put their children up to this sort of thing could now see what will come of it by and by.—Congregationalist.