File:Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the young. Embellished with numerous and beautiful engravings (1854) (14594433498).jpg

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Title: Harper's story books. A series of narratives, dialogues, biographies, and tales, for the instruction and entertainment of the young. Embellished with numerous and beautiful engravings
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
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Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ving in high aristocratic circles in New York, who dress up their children in so fantastica manner, and restrict them so much in their manners and actions, that the poor things have no peace or happiness, and their powers and faculties have no free or healthy development. You will occasionally, if you ever go to New York, meet such children in public places. If it is a girl, you will see her riding down Broadway by the side of her mother in a carriage, with a pet dog, perhaps, on the front seat; or, if it is a boy, walking in the parkat Union Square under the care of a footman or of his nurse, and, from the appearance that he makes, with his jaunty little cap and feather on his head, his cane or whip in his hand, his hair hanging 16 B 18 THE FIFTH AVENUE. Injudicious treatment of children. clown in nicely-adjusted curls on his shoulders, and his frock and pantalets bedecked with so many frills, and flounces, and furbelows, you would judge that his mother had been dressing him for a fancy ball.
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DRESSED FOR A FANCY BALL. Mrs. True, on the other hand, though she was the wife of a rich THE FIFTH AVERUE. 19 Management of many foolish mothers in New York. New York merchant, and lived in a splendid house in the Fifth Avenue, was a very sensible woman, and was very willing that her children should be happy in their own way, and did not attempt, like these fashionable ladies, to make dolls of them. She dressed them in a very plain and simple manner, and did not embarrass them with curls, or ruffles, or flounces, or anything else that would hinder them in the free use of their limbs, or interfere in any way with their childish enjoyments. The mothers who act otherwise do so with good intentions, no doubt, being prompted by feelings of maternal fondness and affection; but it would certainly seem that it must be mistaken fondness, for, by pursuing such a course with their children, they not only greatly diminish the happiness which the children would otherwise enjoy in the earlier years o

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