Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-01-30

FASHIONABLE DEMONSTRATION kills
more women than toll or sorrow. Obe-
dierice to fashion is greater transgress-
ion of the laws of woman's nature, \
greater injury to her physical and mental
constitution, than the hardships of pow
erty and neglect. The slave woman at
her tasks will live and grow old, and see
two or three generations of her mistress
pass away. The washerwoman, with
scarcely ray of hope to cheer her in
her tolls, will live to see her fashionable
sisters all die around her, and the kitch-
en- maid Is hearty and strong when her
lady has to be nurscd like sick baby.
1t is a sad truth that fashion pampered
women arc almost worthless for all the
great ends Of human life. They have
but little force Of character; they have
still less power Of moral WILL and quito
as little physical energies. They live
Tor no great purpose in life, they accom-
plish no worthy ends; they arc only doll
forms in the hands Of milliners and SER
wants, to be dressed and fed to order. =
They dress nobody, they feed nobody,
and save nobody. They write no books,
they set no rich examples of virtue and
womanly life. II they rear children,
servants and nurses do it all, save to con-
eeive and give them birth. And when
reared what are they? What do they
ever amount to, but weaker scions of the
old stock? Who ever heard of fash
ionable woman's ever exhibiting any
power Of mind for which it became emf
nent? Read the biographies of our
men and women. Not one Of them had
q fashionable mother. They nearly all
spfang from plain, strong minded wo-
men who had about as little to do with
fashions as with the changing clouds
A SHREK FOR KANSAS. The manner
in which editors are treated out West il
scandalous. No respect whatever is paid
to these unfortunate beings. Only listen
to the statement of tho editor Of the
Kansas Cannon Bal, who describes, in
graphic style peculiar to himself, tho re-
ception he met with from the citizens,
after he had returned from four days
visit to the back settlements:
On our way to our sanctum, we were
met by delegation of gentlemen, who
began presenting us with vegetables,
eggs. 90. One Of them, thinking we
were fond Of game, threw US what he no
doubt supposed TO be possum or GOOD;
but which Eve h'isg q Judge of game)
sayored l;i.s d cat Of the pole species. =
I,hey placed us on ana foifiury;; -pesn
used as flag staff, and conducted us
through the town, and then TO the out
skirts, where they began stripping us. -
When we were Invested of all but our
left stocking, thoy produced bucket
of black paste, resembling tar; also,
bag Of feathers. They then proceeded
to make US very warm suit for winter.
of feathers lined with the paste. After
they had all saluted US, by pulling our
nose, (Which is the customary salute be-
tween pro and anti-slavcry men, they
told US it was time TO go; which, after
receiving conclusion in the rear, we
did. We were surprised to hear, wl,cn
we went to the Office, that We had been
tarrcd and feathered. The foreman, as
sisted by the devil, fell TO work and pick
cd us; we were all the time experioncfag
the sensation supposed to belong to that
i..sget called goose We arc nov
'featherless,' but the tar will stick by u
while we live.
an. B.-The feathers are for sale NJ
our Office. The whole lot for 81 .50.--
Call soon" WI
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TERRIBLE PANTHER FIGnr.-A few
evenings since us VIM Pate, well-known