Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-23

s sn TINS ms only proved as spark to the powder,
It blew and it rained, thnndered ightened and hailed
n'eectlons verbs pronoans, till language quite failed
no express the abusive, and then its arrears
We're brought up all at once by q torrent Of tears
and my last, faint, despairtng attempt at obs
ErVation was lost in a tempest Of sobs.
wsll felt for the lady and felt for my hat too.
IN Heu OF expressing the feelings which lay
Quite too deep fol words, as Waasworth would say;
1nen' without gong through the form Of bow,
Found round myself in the entry hardly know how
On doorstep and side walk lamppos and square,
A. holhe ana up stars IN my own easy chair;
Poked my feet into slippers, my FIRE into blaze,
SupPosing had the wealth of a Car,
or the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days,
On the whole do you think he would have much spare
Ii ne married a woman with nothing to wear?
Since that night taking pains should not be bru
Abroad in society, I've instituted
4 course Of inquiry, extensive and thorough,
On this vital subject, and lind, to my horror,
That the fair Fora's is by surprising,
But that there exis the greatest dis ress
In our female community, solely arising
From the unsupplied restitution of dress
Whose unfortunate victims are filling The air
with pitiful vail of Nothing wear
Researches in some of the % Upper Ten" districts
Reveal the most painful and startling statistics
OF which let me mention only a few:
In one single house on the Fifth Avenue,
Who have been three long weeks without an tbing new
In the Of hounced silks and thus left in the 1rch
Are unable to 60 to ball concert or church.
In another large mansion the same place.
Was found depIOrabIe heart-rending case
OF entire restitution of Brussels point lace
In neighboring block there was found calls,
Total want, long continued, of camel hair shawIs:
The most pressing need of real ermiue tipits;
One deserving young lady almost unable
To survive the want of a Russian sable;
Another confined to the house, when its wndier
Than usual, because her shawl isn't India.
Still another, whose fortunes have been terrific
Ever since the sad loss of the steamer Pacific
In which were ingufed, not friend relation,
For whose fate she perhaps might have found consOa
Or borne it, at least. with serene resiguationA
But the choicest assortment of French sleeves collars
Ever sent out from Paris worth thousands of dollars
The want Of which leaves her with nothing wear,
And renders her life so drear and dispeptc
Ihat sne quite a recluse, and almost skeptc,
For she touchingly says that this sort 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 by far of all these sad features
Is the cruelty practiced upon the poor creatur
By husbands and fathers, Bluebeards and Timons
Who resist the most touching appeals diamonds
By their wives and their daughters
Unsupplied with new jewelry, FANS or bouquets,
Even laugh at their miseres when they have chance,
One case Of a bride brought to my view,
Too sad for belief, but alas twas too true,
Whose husband refused, savage as Charon,
To permit her to take than trunks to Sharon,
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 and out,
For his infamous conduct alleging reason,
Except that the waters were good for his govt
such treatment as this 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 here been disclosed to stir up the pity
OF every benevolent heart in the city
And stir up Humanity into a canter
To rust and relieve these sad cases instanter.
Won't somebody, moved by this touching description,
Come forward tomorrow and head substitution
Won't some kind Philanthropist, seeing that aid is
SO needed at once by those INDECENT ladies,
Take charge of the matter or won't Peter Cooner
Inc corner stone lay OF some splendid super
Structure, like that which to-day links his name
! In the Union amending of honor and famei
| And found new charity, just for the care
| OF these unhappy women with nothing wear,
Which IN view Of the cash which would daily be claimed
| The Ldn1Hg-out Hospital well might be named
Went Stewart or some of dry goods importers,
Take contract for clothing wives daughters
| Or, furnish the cash to supply these distresses
And life's pathway with and
Ere the want of them makes much roughe thoTner
! won I some one discover new California!
| oh ladies' dear ladies, the next sunny day
| Please trundle your hoops just Of Broadway,
from ITS whirI and its hustle its fashion and PRIDE
And the temples of trade which on each side,
To the alleys and lanes where Misfortune and Guilt
Inelr cndreh nave gathered, their city have built
| Where Hunger and Vice, like twin beasts Of prev
Have hunted their victims to gloom and despair
'se e rlc DAINTY dress ana the hne broldered skirt
Pick delicate through the dampness dirt
Crepe through the dark den, climb the rickety
10 the garrett, where wretches, the and the old
Halfsarved, and half lie crouched cold
See those skeleton limbs, those frost bi ten feet
All bleeding and bruised by the Of the street.
Hear the sharp cry Of childhood the deep groans tha
swell
From the poor dying creature who wrhes on the oor
Hear the curses that sound like the echoes of hell
| AS you scken, and shudder, and fly from the door;
Spoiled children of fashiOn-yOu've nothing wear
| And oh, if perchance there should be a sphere
Where all Is made right which puzzles US here
Where the glare and the glitter, and tnseI Time
Fade and die in the light of that region sublime
| Where the soul dsenchanted Of flesh and sense,
unscreened b. its trappngs and shows, and preence,
Must be clothed for the life and the service above,
| with purity, truth, faith, meekness, and love,
On, daughters of earth, foolish virgins bewarel
Lest IN that upper world you have nothing to wear