Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-12-26

God is a lover and Creator Of the beau
tlful. Does not every year wear al her
christening the white robes lie has wo-
ven has lie not given to every Spring
her veil of golden mists, and her purple
embroidery OF violets has He no, belled
the Summer with dancing streams, and
sandalled her with daisies, and starred
her with lilies ? has He not mounted the
Autumn with glorious jewery, and Glow
ned hef with lopas and ruby
Lel him who says that God is bare
UuIiiarian. who has no delight in beauty,
60 and stand in any cottage door through
out all the land, and every tree, and
stream, and flower in sight, shall relule
the LIE. But as the earth and the sea-
sons thereof have other missions besides
those of adorning themselves, so has wo-
maQ, and she has no right 10 make this
The paramount aim of her life. Miss Flo
ra McF'limsey, who promenades Broad
wav or Chestnut street, in five hundred
dollar shawls, and fifty dollar bonnels,
may laugh at our primitive notions; but
just look al it, my dear Madam That
Ilonilon lace which adorns your sleeves,
al twenty-five dollars yard, or that gau-
dy handkerchief that cost fifty more might
if judiciously employed, have rescued
some little child from ignorance and wret-
chedness, and future life Of inIamy, and
placed it in position 10 be blessing to
itself and the world. II nigh, have sa-
we'd that poor girl in Brooklyn, You read
of " lh a shudder, who on learning her
employment was suspended, went 10 her
room and cut her throat Probably she
had no home, no friends. and mayhap
was stranger in a strange land; no mat
Ter what was her nation, or her ciIcum-
stances, she was your sister and mine,
born Of one father, and one mother, and
to be Judged by one God !
And do YOU remember, oh, fashionably
dressed lady, for you must sometimes
think Of it, that you shall DIE in IliIle
while ,and while you lie on tha, bed from
which no earthly love shall avail TO rise
on, will it ease your conscience or re-
joice your heart 10 remember that IN your
drawers lie collars and handkerchiels that
cost hundred dollars, and in your ew-
ell cases diamonds for thousand ! that
people stared and envied you when you
walked out. and that you succeeded in the
great ambition of your life, TO always dress
better than your nelghbors
Oh, woman woman how dare you
flaunt these things in the sight Of men, land
OF angels, when there ire thousands all a.
bout you iamishIng for food bodily and
spiritual. Fifty dollars why, ii might
educate a little child it might spare dy-
ing mother TO her group of helpless chill
dren it might save one of your own sex
! from a life worse than thousand deaths !!
"if my people would but consider saith
the Lord"
And oh, DO you ever remember that one
day you will stand before God, and the
books will be opened, and your life will
be read of him and if, amid that solemn
throng, one face shall turn to you, and
one voice shall break the silence, crying,
.She saved me she saved me - with
what radiant Jewels shall the angels set
these words in the crown you will wear
fore7er and forever! Oh, do you think,
my dear lady, you would regret then that
YOU never wore diamonds and lloniton
lace while you were on earth :!
| We knew how mighty is The force OF
example, and that good, right minded, and
most estimabIe women have been uncon-
sciou,ly led into extravaganza in this mat
ter Of dress, because, as we said, II has
grown to be social disease.
But we hope tina, in this time OF sell
denial and lelrenchmeni, in which every
true woman takes her part, this subject
will be viewed in a more rational manner,
and considered in its true relations and
bearing. And if there shall be born no.
bier sentiment, chaster and more modI-
fed taste, if there shah be less eXtrava-
rsance and desire for show and personal
aSornment, among our sex, then, noiwIth-
standing these darkened homes, and even
this cry for work that is filling the land,
then. Notwithstanding all these things. yeI
have brought US blessing in adversely,
HARD TIMES
DEBr OF THE UNITED STATEs.--Ihe
limited States on the 3rd OF March Iasi
owed S3O,O43, 900. From the 3rd oil
March TO the 3Ola of June she redeemed
Sas3 600 of her stock. From the lst OF