Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1885 — The Age of Tinsel. [ARTICLE]

The Age of Tinsel.

Could our grandmothers but see the gilded roses and golden rosebuds which adorn the fashionable headgear they would, indeed, think things had changed. In their time gold, tinsel, and spangles were considered sacred to the stage, and it was thought the very acme of bad taste to wear such things in broad daylight. Nowadays spangles appear on on street dresses, glitter on the aigrettes with which bonnets are trimmed, and as for tinsel, only a very small proportion of the summer bonnets are without it.— Brooklyn Eagle

The love which every child brings with it is in itself the very strongest indication of the needs of the child. Love is like sunshine; without it there can be no harmonious growth or development. As well expect a fruit tree to bear delicious fruit in a cellar as to expect a child to grow up into - symmetrical manhood or womanhood without love. As invariably we appropriate the sunniest nook in * the garden to the nursery, so must the warmest and sunniest apartments of the heart be given to the little ones. Nurtured in an atmosphere of love, their various powers expand in unconscious but harmonious beauty.

Frugality provides an easy-chair for old age.