BsAurY--cLornrNo OF CHILDREN.
BBAUTY--cLoTRING OF CHILDREN.

 When we observe the extreme anxiety of m0thers to improve the beauty and impart grace to the forms of their daughters, we cannO. but pity the ignorance and infatua- tion which induce them, in too many in- stances, to resort to mcans calculated much more efiectually to defeat the object so ar- dently desired, than to promote it. A ve- ry slight knowledge of the human frame, and of the manner in which it is influenced by external agents, would teach them the absurdity of all attempts to supply, by ar- tifcial means, what can result only from tho unassisted efforts of nature. In infan- cy as well as in adult life, the first and most important object of consideration should be to preserve and promote the health and vigour of the body-since with its health we necessarily maintain its symmetry and improve it's beauty.

 Bodily defornlity, iH. particular, unless cOngenital, or the effect of1navOidable dis easo Or accident, is in the great majority of cases produced by nursery n,ismanage- ment, and the employment of the very means which are reSorted to in order to prevent it.

 The fact canno, be too ofien repeated. nor can it be too seriously urged upon pa- reRts, that iI,e foundation of graceful and just proportion in the various parts of the body must be laid in infancy. A light dress, which gives freedom 10 the functions of life and action. is the only one adapted to permit perfect, Unobstructed gro~tf- the young 6bres, unconstraned by obstacles imposed by art. will shoot forth harmoni- ously into the form which nature intended. The garments of children should De in every respect perfectly easy, so us not to impede the freedom of their movements by bands or ligatures upon the chests, the loins, the legs or arms. With such hber- ~, the muscles of the trunk and limbs will gradually assume the fine swell and devel- opement, which nothing short of uncon- strained exercise can ever produce. The body will turn easily and gracefully upon it's firmly poised base--she classt will riss ! in noble and healthy sxpausc, and the