Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-02-09
Fashion becoming Respectable!

| FASH10N-has probably caused more evil
in the world than intemperance or war
Mental aud physical suffering, crime, and
sin, are its fruitful progeny. And every
Reformer, land all who have sensibly blessed
the world by their abode in it, have been
in many respects unfnshioaotIe people
Better be out of the world than out OF
the fashion, is the cry Of the Little But
terhies that shine and are forgotten when
they return to their mother dust while
the uames which are joyfully Remembered
are those of men and women who had
minds as we'll as bodies of their own, and
were TO. mere automatons of the Big But
tcrfies :hat glittered moment-and per-
ishcd for ever.
Gov. Pollock, We rejoice to see, is not
a fashionable Governor. 1t has been the
fashion-"the way''-"the custom"-to
close up Inauguration Days with an an
augrta,ion Ball" The part the Governor
was to take in this grand executive perfcr-
nance, was to visit it at given hour,
walk through the room, smiling and bow
ing, be solcmnly gapcd at by all the biz
and little lumnaries of fashion present
and &C back again. Accordingly, after the
fatigue of the day was past, and the Cover
nor had reached his private room, with 4
few chosen friends, and the Bible just pre-
scnted before him, he was waited upon by
a committee Of escort, to conduct him 20
the bali /" \ bail, gentlemen" said
the Governor, d" never attend balls !"
"Well, but said the committee, very
plausibly, ",his is Inauguration ball-got
up in honor of yoas clectiou-a!l the Go.
vernors at,end-it is the way-the custom
the mole-the ton--they al do so--no
harm to the most scrupulous-they are all
expecting you-the ladies are all anxious
to see you-you surely would not disap-
point your friends, and especially the Ia
dies-al! that is desired is that YOU should
Just walk through the room, and allow
them to see our excellent and popular Go
vernon" Sc. Sc The Governor heard
them patien,!y-expressed his "regret at
disappointing any, and especially the Ia
dies; that he was conscienciously averse
to such customs, and as the arrangements
were made without his knowledge or ap-
probation, they could not but expect that
be should make his own decision in the
case" Very sensible in the man-digni-
fed in the Governor-consistent in the
profcsscd Christian with his Bible on his
table, but shochi"y,y mtashionadle to the
Buttafies aforesaid
For one, we rejoice in this evidence, on
the part of the Chief Magistrate Of this
noble Commonwealth, that he will be 60
vcrned in his career by the dictates Of an
enlightened, common-scnse conscience, and
no. be the scrvitor of the trifing lazaroni
and ephemcra who usually endeavor to
shape the affairs and order the policy of
Officers in multitude Of small matters
which in their influence are Of great mo-
mcnt.
Attending a bail, may be light thing
in itself. But to attend because " others
do" is transferring to "others" an indi-
vidual obligation which every man should
assume for himself Aud to attend place
of at best questionable propriety, where
respectable professors of religion are not
expected to attend, simply because Fashion
demanded it, would have been base sur
render of the Man and the Christian to the
Vaccinations of the Evil One.
! We rejoice that Gov. Pollock has set a
good example in this respect He will
find many cases in his course of time in
which by falling back to the first principles
of Right and Propriety, he will come in
conflict with Fashion But we need such
men, in our day, as much IS any day has
needed them. We need such men in
( Church and State-in business and in the
social circlc-every where.
There is another proof that Fashion
is becoming rational, in the benevolent
indications Of many Of the rich-the gay
the very ion-in our'cities, the present
cold season, when tens of thousands Of
able. bodied men and women have no means
of earning their daily bread. Besides the
large amounts given privately, aiid by Off
cial almoners of taxes laid by law, there
are now many thousands supplied with
food, daily, by philanthropic individuals,
in our cities, and hundreds in our larger
towns. Were the amount really known,
it would probably be found that near
Million of Dollars have been this season
devoted to sacred charity, in Philadelphia
and New York alone.
This proves there is in the heart triply-
cncascd and ru'.ed by the hardening pro,
ccsscs of fashionable inanity and insipidity,
a germ Of kindness and common humanity
left, which may be made to beat by great
necessity like that now existing Accor-
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