Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-01-21

and let foreign set ofcomlnoditcs be ina
ported without duty, and sold, az it were. il
the street-peddled about without paying
retailing license. or even store rent? VIVA
regular business can hope to stand against
such ruinous competition None. Embold
eDed by success, the ladies viii next be a
your doors, order the servant 90 bring out the
family plate, carry off the beefst the fire; and
tell The cook II is for the good ofths souls ot
the poor Greeks, and to pay for education at
the infant schools, Now the charity which
go would encourage should be of entirely
another stamp. No public display, no tins-l,
no iashioa. All should be meekness, and
humble prteGgc cxertions. These ladies' have
time to spare, else coaldthcy not afford to make
cocoanpt cakes, jellies, and Greek head drcs-
ses. VIII any of them go to Greece. and
convert The poor islanders themselves? win
they take upon themselyss the duties OF
teachers of infant schools for halt an hour
daily? VIII they carry the poor little suffer
ers, or one OF them. you please, 20 their own
pariour: feed and educate IL in all things like
themselves "Ohl no. is the reply, 1--WE have
no ame, and besides, YOU know, one does not
want their privacy broken in upoa hy ssran
gers" SO so--you don't want 20 be expo
sed to the hourly observation ola stranger
Then why expose yourselves for three or four
DAYS to the gaze, the observation, and the
tattle OF twelve thousand people whom YOU
never saw? Where Is the distinction, and
what have you 10 say to tbisp "But,n say
our opponents, "you need not go ifyou don't
choose II is so, aud there is the sophistry OF
your argument. You raise a statue to Fanny
Wright, gild and ornament il, walk daily be-
fore it, praise it. make it fashionable to go and
see it, and then tell US we need not go ii we
don't choose! Who wants 10 be out of fash
ion. and who IS there that don'tcat @le same
kind OF things, no matter whether wholesome
or not, which Mrs. Grundy and all eatp sBut
you need not buy say these modern huck-
sters. Not buyp and pray how is one TO help
it when their pockets are fun, and fashion, and
beauty, we had like to have said, are tugging
at your purse-strlngs? .Iierc is a beautiful
bedstead, sir, only twenty dollars, do buy it;
it's so neat and so pretty; iasure your dau,h-
ter will be delighted" And nod and a
smle, as much as to say, ''yoa can afford il,
now don't be mean.n Twenty dollars for a
dolls hedi We were actually offered ono at
that price, and by going lady too Bless
the dear creature, why we bought two bee
steads, and feather bed, for half the money,
and have been able to sleep on it. with happy
dreams, but we never dreamed OF such Young
ladies' Then here are the "Daughters OF
Aaron of the City of PHILADELPHIA What
they are going TO do remains to I've seen
they want an incorporation too; no doubt
they mean to cut a canal through the moon,
and set up golden (iashionable) calf, and
make us all give in our car rings, and our
watch CHAINS TO chrisiianize the men in the
moon, Heaven bless such moonslsees, say
we, and better name, and good husbands TO
teach them how to govern their own actions,
and keep away from the gaze of the vulgar.
But we do not impugn the motives Of these
ladies, which, withost question, were good.
PHILADELPHIA .1riet.