Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1855-04-14
Coed Sense Fashion.

Good Sense Fashion.
The New York Times, in the course
OF an article under the head of"A Column
of Talk for Young Men on Small Wages"
has this plain and sensible paragraph on
the subject Of dress
"rhen as to dress--it is great nonsense
to say that all must dress Gasbionablv or
lose chasle. WHAT'S the fashion Who
wears fashionable coat, and how do you
know it is the fashion Tell us cf one
substantial merchant, one lhifty mechan-
ic, one successful lawyer, or one gcnhe-
man who wears it, and we will name ten
of each, equally noted and successful, who
do not, and ten fops whom You utterly
despise that do. The fashion in New
York for men just now, requires clean,
decent garment, and no patches on it-no
more, no less. A lady might wear her
grandmolher's shawl in Broadway, and
not be noticed. The tmid ones, and
jhese just in from Other ciNes and villages,
alone are worried about their looks when
thcy wear las; winters bonnet to the lee
ture or to church. Let the young initiate
the substantial and common-sensible, ra
ther lhan those who are keeping up ap-
pearance at satriice. 1t viii be a say
ing in this Item"
DEATH OF MlsEE.-On Saturday,
! Hannah Hall, a spinner aged 66, dlstin-
guished by her mlserIy habits, closed
her miserable career, at Sheffield, leaving
to the Girls Charity School Of that town
between $4,000 and 10000, amasscd
by lie of penury. In 1912, about which
lime her father died, she received lega-
cy Of 4I0O under her grandlalher's will.
Ii was Immediately after the acquisition
of This sum of money that Miss Hail frsl
manifested those penurlous habits for
which her subsequently life was remar-
kable. Her penury led her thus early in
! her career to discard soap as all uuncces-
! sarv appendage of her toilct,and she boast
cd that she had not used any for 30 years.
/ Her onlv income was the intereston 4lOO
and her own earnings by making farm
laborers' smock- -frocks, but she contrived
not only to live out of this, but to save
money. In connection with another wo-
man she commenced a system of lend
ing money out at interest, through The
medium OF Guinea Clubs, and this pro-
we'd so profitable, that in five or Sin years
she was able to commence lending on
mortgage of small lots Of cottage proper
ty.
The shutters of the lower rooms of her
house were barricaded, and she lived alone
in the garret a miserable and wrelched
life, but every year increasing her habits
of penury and hoard of wealth. Goals
she never bought, and frequently she sal
for days together in the depth of winter
without fire. Miss Hall, although she
would literally starve herself to death
rather than part with her money, had no
objection to a good dinner at any other
PERSONS expense, and during the last ten
or fifteen years of her life she followed
out system by which she secured her
self a good dinner and tea every day in
the week, except Sunday, free of charge.
This class of friends she propitiated by
promise TO remember them in her will.
10 none Of these persons, however, has
she left more than yGlO.
Her attire was ..thing Of shreds and
patches" On her feet she usually wore
a pair of cast-otf mems boots, which were
tied round her ances with strings. She
had worn one bonnet for more than thirty
years. Summer or winter she wore pat
tens and carried an umbrella. Her habits
were very filthy. On a search being
made al the house of the deceased three
wills were discovered, all in her own
handwriting, and another drawn up by a
solicitor in l849, in all Of which she left
her property to the charity school. There
were also foUnd mortgage deeds Midland
Railway shares; debenlure bonds of the
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Railway, and bankers deposit notes; in all
amounting 10 tt,400 1t is believed by
those who knew her, that ii will Ultimate
lv be found that she died worth from
10000 to $1,000. These securities
were found secreied in bundles of rags,
tied up in old shirts; and some Of the
more portable ones, such as the bank
deposlle notes, were packed away in
pieces of rags, inside OF old shoes, &c. In
one box she had accumulated between
fifty and sixty pieces Of soap Of different
kinds, evidently the contributions Of.
friends anxious for her sanitary improve
ment. The interment took place at ST.
Phillips Church, and drew together some
thousands of people.-Lond0n Times,
February 10.
Snufer-A walking dust hole.