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Editorial
June 22, 1842
Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
A satirical editorial ridiculing dandies as pretentious fools, comparing them to hollow melons and plated spoons, expressing strong antipathy toward their vanity and impudence.
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DANDIES.
Dow, Jr., says there are some fools in the world who, after a long incubation, will hatch out from a hot bed of pride a sickly brood of fuzzy ideas, and then go strutting along the path of pomposity with all the self-importance of a speckled hen with a black chicken! I have an antipathy to such people. They are mere walking sticks or female flirts-ornamented with brass heads did I say? No! their caputs are only half ripe musk melons, with thick rinds, and all hollow inside, containing the seeds of foolishness, swimming about with a vast quantity of sap. Tinkered up with broadcloth, finger rings, safety chains, soft solder, vanity and impudence, they are no more men than a plated tea-spoon is solid silver! I detest a dandy as a cat does a wet floor.
Dow, Jr., says there are some fools in the world who, after a long incubation, will hatch out from a hot bed of pride a sickly brood of fuzzy ideas, and then go strutting along the path of pomposity with all the self-importance of a speckled hen with a black chicken! I have an antipathy to such people. They are mere walking sticks or female flirts-ornamented with brass heads did I say? No! their caputs are only half ripe musk melons, with thick rinds, and all hollow inside, containing the seeds of foolishness, swimming about with a vast quantity of sap. Tinkered up with broadcloth, finger rings, safety chains, soft solder, vanity and impudence, they are no more men than a plated tea-spoon is solid silver! I detest a dandy as a cat does a wet floor.
What sub-type of article is it?
Satire
Moral Or Religious
What keywords are associated?
Dandies
Satire
Pomposity
Vanity
Fools
What entities or persons were involved?
Dow, Jr.
Dandies
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Ridicule Of Dandies
Stance / Tone
Satirical Detestation
Key Figures
Dow, Jr.
Dandies
Key Arguments
Fools Hatch Fuzzy Ideas From Pride And Strut With Self Importance.
Dandies Are Like Hollow Musk Melons Filled With Foolishness.
Adorned With Vanity And Impudence, They Are Not True Men, Like Plated Spoons.