Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1856-01-05
Furs-Hoops, etc.


cause we are not fond of being made a
laughing stock of. The despotic God
dess who presides over the "loggery" OF
the fair sex, has, for centuries, been des-
ignated as the "Queen Of FOOLS" and at
no time has she deserved the epithet more
than at the present. Fashion is a fool,
but we are sorry to say that she is as po-
tent fool now as she was four centuries
ago, and that her loyal subjects are as
plentiful. if not more so. Fashion has
ruined many business man, and will ruin
many more before the millennium knocks
milIners, dressmakers and lurrlers in the
head. Furs are "highly fashionable"
now, and many thriving tradesman is
bankrupted by mink, sable and other skins.
In New York, mink skins are made up
into "selt of furs," and three, FIVE and
seven hundred dollars are paid for the
"sett," which probably cost twenty dol
lars al the utmost. Mink sable is made
of the common mink skins, many one
of which we have shot and sold for ten
cents each, and for which the manufac-
turers do not pay more than fifteen cents
each. 1t requires. say ten skins to make
sable sett, the cost of whichthe male
rial We mean---is about one dollar and a
half the work upon the sett costs proba-
ibly four or five dollars, giving the iurrler
prof of four hundred and ninety odd
dollars on a i've hundred dollar sett.
This is something of profit for ousi-
ness man TO pay, and soon enriches the
furrer while i! dep'ees the pockets of the
customer. The fashionable women do
not, or will not think of this thing they
will not reflect that they compel their hns-
bands to pay thousand times more than
the actual value Of their hirsue ornament,
and will not believe, what is the actual
fact, that the majority Of them are wear
ing the skins OF cats, rabbits, musk rats
minks, skunks, and dogs, and imagining
them the finest of iurs-.-because they were
high priced. We happen to know some
thing about this matter, and know that
many suit of furs that cost the maker
not more than ten dollars has been sold to
fashionable ladies for nearly as many hun
dreds.
Do any ofour lady readers wear hoops?
We hope not, for we believe no sensible
woman would be so stupidity silly. Men
are not such fools that they cannot see the
effort made by anserlerous females to
"slick out" and many hearty laugh do
they enjoy over the unnatural circumler-
ence achieved by cnoperlzed wOmen.--
MaScuines know well that the locomotive
extremities of the opposite sex are not
four or five feet thick, and their Iashiona-
bie diameter is !he resaIl OF whaIehone
and hickory.
# brhooped woman would take the
trouble 10 look about her, she would no.
lce that she is source Of intense mC:rl.
ment to all the sensible men and woff&
near her. Do the wearers know Mar
hoops were first invented by an unmarried
woman who had lost her virtue, and who
resorted to hoops TO hide her shame Do
they know, too, that this is a well known
fact, and that hooped' Gress suggests the
idea that some such circumstance has
caused its adoption ? Men know it, and
are naturally suspicious Of the wearer OF a
hooped skirt. We would a thousand
times rather see Bloomer dress, much
as we detest it, When will our females
think and acl FOR themselves, despite the
dictates of Fashion ! VIII they discard
the ridiculous barrelism when thew learn
that the revival of the foolish fashion is
owing to the "interesting" situation of the
Empress Of France ?--Jersey City Tele-
graph. u.
FARM Work FOR THE WINTER.-A cor
respondent of a New Y ork house, writing
from Marshall county, H., on the subject
Of an article under this tile, says, "Why
don't the laborerS come West, instead Of
crowding back to the city 10 starve 2
The writer says ..l.... ....... .l III /
"Good hands can gel Sl2 TO SIC a
month all winleF. Hands bow getSl,2Js
day and board, for huskng corn. and but
few TO be had al that. And yet there are
OF men and women idle and
starving in your city; or al least suffering
Tor the necessaries Of life. Western farm
ers would hay no hesitation in advancing
when necessary, 70 pay the pas,
sage Of such as wish TO come 10 the West
to labor, II they could have any assurance
lha. they would receive justice at the hands
of those whom they ,we[ehIylng 10 help
BY bringing them where they could ge,
plenty 10 do, add a fair Compensation FOR
it. Partners are so bshindhand that tiiere
is bulliI,ie' fail wheat raised IN this ParI OF
the State 4la afV m1h 10 sIsFszrs i
Fate of Sir Lstn FTankfin. .-Ohiea,
go, Dec. pa despatch received from