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Queen’^ l^ocKet. 
A plant of the genus Eruca . The name is also applied to plants of 
the genus Hesperis. 
Fashion. 
TT DELIRIUM of . fashion, who can deny it?—exists. Women, per- 
J-*- haps, more so than men, are often ranked by what they wear, not by 
what they are. Extravagance in dress, not to say indecency of dress, has 
taken the place of simple womanly beauty. Wordsworth once described 
the “perfect woman nobly planned.” Where will you find the perfect 
woman now f ETot in the party-colored, overdressed creature, the doll in 
shreds and patches—with false hair, false complexion, false eyebrows, false 
everything! 
And the evil does not stop with the* moneyed classes. It descends 
even to the poorer classes. They, too, want to live up to the style and 
fashion of the day, no matter whether their income allows them to do so 
or not. 
ETay, the folly of fashion and dress is carried to such extremes, now¬ 
adays, that it becomes even dangerous to morality. 
Eor a great number of young ladies dissipate the usefulness and 
seriousness of their calling, principally through vanity. 
A number of young women, among the less wealthy classes, would 
have been models of purity and moral worth, had not their virtue, or at 
least their modesty, been bought for the low consideration of a silk dress, 
or a box of trinkets. 
Oh! could we look over the records of houses that have no good fame: 
we should find there many a once fair record that might trace the primary 
cause of its present degradation, to the love of fineries and of dress. 
Eo wonder, indeed, that St. Peter, writing on this topic, says, 
“Whose (the women’s) adorning let it not be the outward plaiting of the 
