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We have a cartoon or caricarture drawing by illustrator George Cruikshank of a riotous Christmas scene in an English nursery. Of cpitse no nursery had 14 children, but we get a glimpse of popular fashions in 1826. We still see the girls wearing long Empire dresses. The boys clothing are a little less clear. But we see cruffled collars, buttones collars and what look rather like skeleton suits. All the boys are wearing long pants outfits. A British readers comments on behavior and child rearing arrutudes, "It is satire. 'Goody Two Shoes' is a story about a good child who is an orphan but by being good gains wealth and happiness. Calling the children masters and mistress Twoshoes implies they are good children but they are behaving badly. A satire on what Christmas was at that time using children to make a political statement. Goodytwo Shoes was an 18th century children's story. In our time calling spoilt self centured children Little Lord Fauntleroy or prince and princess is using an ideal of goodliness to illustrate the opposite in children's behaviour. Sir Thomas Lawrence portait provides us a glimse of two elegantly dressed boys of different ages in 1829.
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