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CHAPTER III.
INFANCY AND ITS DRESSES.
"At first the Infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms."
Shakspeare.
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms."
Shakspeare.
"Come, little Infant, love me now
With thine unsuspecting years;
Clear thine aged father's brow
From cold jealousy and fears.
Pretty, surely, 'twere to see
By young love old time beguil'd,
While our sportings are as free
As the nurse's with the child."
Marvell.
With thine unsuspecting years;
Clear thine aged father's brow
From cold jealousy and fears.
Pretty, surely, 'twere to see
By young love old time beguil'd,
While our sportings are as free
As the nurse's with the child."
Marvell.
"Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan;—take all heed thereof, in all carefulness employ it;—with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty will it one day be required back.Carlyle.
FIFTY years ago Dr. Burrows wrote: "We do not only in great measure hide beauty, but even injure and kill it by some kinds of dress. A child is no sooner born into the world than it is bound up almost as firmly as an old Egyptian mummy in several folds of linen. It is in vain for him to give
