Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1857-09-10


Still another, whose tortures have been most terri
Ever since the sad loss of the steamer Pacific,
In which were engufed, not friend or relation,
(For whose fate she perhaps might have found con
ISOLATION
Or borne it at least, with serene resignation)
But the choicest assortment of French sleeves an
collars
Ever sent from Paris, worth thousands of dollars
And all as to style most recherche and rare,
The want of which leaves her with nothing to ca
And renders her life SO drear and dyspeptic,
That she's quite a recluse, and almost skeptic,
For she tOuchingy says this kind of grief
Cannot find in religion the slightest relief,
And Philosophy has not a maxim to spare
For the victims of such overwhelming despair
But the saddest of all these sad features
Is the cruelty practised upon the poor creatures
By husbands and fathers, real Bluebeards and Tt
| mons,
Who resist the most touching appeals made for dia
monds
By tlleir wives and their daughters and leave then
for days
URsspplied with new jewelry, fans or bo4uets.
Even laugh at their miseries when they we chance
And deride their demands a. useless extravaganza
One case of bride was brought to my view,
| To sad for belief, but alas! twas too true,
Whose husband refused, as savage as Ckaron,
To permit her to take more than ten trunks to Sha-
ron,
The consequence was that when she got there,
At the end of three weeks she had nothing to wear
And when she proposed to finish the season
AT Newport, the monster refused out and out,
For his infamous conduct alleging as reason,
Except that the waters were good for his gout;
Such treatment as this was too shocking of course,
, And proceedings are now going on for divorce.
But why harrow the feelings by lifting the curtain
From these scenes of woe? Enough, it is certain,
Has been here disclosed to stir up the pity
OF every benevolent heart in the city,
And spur up humanity into canter,
To rush and relieve these sad cases instanter;
Won't somebody, moved by this touching descrip-
tion,
Come forward to mOrrOw and head a subscription :?
Won't some kind philanthropst, seeing that and is
Take charge of the matterl or won't Peter Cooper
The corner stone lay of some splendid super
Structure like that which to-day links his name
In the Union unending Of honor and fame;
And found a new charity just for the care
Of these unhappy women with nothing to wear,
Which in view of the cash that would daily be
claimed,
The Laying out Hospital we'll might be named?
Won't Stewart, or some of our dry goods import
Take contract for clothing our wives and our
daughters!
Or to furnish the cash to supply these distresses.
And life's pathway srew with shawls, collars, and
dresses,
Ere the want of them makes it much rougher and
thorner.
Won't some one discover new California?
Oh ladies, dear ladies, the next sunny day
Please trundle your hoops just out of Broadway.
From its whirl and its hustle, its fashion and PRIDE
And the temples of Trade which tower on each side,
To the Alleys and lanes where Misfortune and
Guilt
Their children have gathered, their city have built,
Where Hunger and Vice, like twin beasts of prey,
Have haunted their victims to grief and despair;
RAISE the rich, dainty dress, and the fine brodered
skirt,
Pick your delicate way through the dampness and
dirt,
Grope through the dark den, climb the rckety stair
To the garret, where wretches, the young and the
old,
Half starved and halfraked, lie crouched from the
cold,
See those skeleton limbs, those frost bitten feet,
All bleeding and bruised by the stones ofhe street;
Hear the sharp cry of childhood, the deep groans
that swell
From the poor dying creatures that writhes on the
floor;
Hear the curses that sound like the echoes of He'll;
As YOU scken and shudder and fly from the door;
Then home to your wardrobes and say if you dare
Spoiled children of Fashion-you've nothing to
weari
And OH if perchance there should be sphere,
Where all is made right which so puzzles us here
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