The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1857-08-25

Pickpocket, and Cannibal, Tartar, ana thief
As gentle expletives which might give relief;
But this only proved spark to the powder,
And the storm had raised came faster and louder.
1t blew and it rain ed, thundered and hailed,
lnteuections, verbs, pronouns, till language quite
failed
To express the abusive, and then its arro-rs
Were brought up all at once by torrent of tears,
nd my last faint desparing attempt at an obs
Eryation lost in a tempest Of sobs.
Well, felt for tho lady, and felt for my hat too,
Impravised on the crown OF the latter tattoo,
10 lieu of expressing the feelings which lay
Qui,e 20 deep for words, as Wordsworth would say; |
Then, with going through the form Of a bow.
Found myselfin the entry-I hardly knew how
On doorstep and sidewalk, past lamp post square,
At home and up stair, in my owneasy char;
Poked my feet into slippers, my fire into blaze,
And said to myself as lit my cigar
Supposne-a man had the wealth of the Car
Oftho Rnssas To boot for the rest Of his days,
On the whole, do you think he would have much to
spare
If he married woman with nothing to wear'
Since that night, taking pains that it should not be
brnited
Abroad in society, Pve insnuated
A course of inquiry. extensive and thorough,
On the vital subject and find TO my horror,
That the fair Foras is by means surprising,
But there exists the greatest distress
In our female community, solely arising
From this unsupped destitution of dress,
Whose unfortunate victims filling the air
With the pitiful wall of "Nothing TO wear"
Researches in some of the upper Ten districts
Reveal
OF which let me mention only a few
In single house on the Fifth Avenue,
Three young ladies' were found. all below twenty-five
Who have been three whole weeks without anything
rev
In the way of ounced silks and thus left in the lurch
Are unable to go TO ball, concert or church.
In another large ansion near by the same place
Was found deplorabe, heart-rendering case
o entire des sttution of Brussels point lace.
In neighboring block there was found in three calls
Total want long continued, of camels hair shawls;
tpIa e,fl. nmIlV Va "a
Th most pressing need Of real ermine tppets;
Ore deserving young lady, almost unable
Il urvive for the want Of a new Russian sable;
A. other confined TO the house when it's windy
T. an usual because her shawl isn't India.
Still another whose tortures have been most terrific
Ever since the sad loss of the steamer Pacific,
| In which were engulfed, u OF friend relation,
For whose fate she perhaps might have found con-
ISOLATION,
| Or borne it, at least with serene resgnation)
But the choicest assortment of French sleeves and
Eversent out from Paris worth thousands of dollars,
| And all as TO style most recherche and rare,
| The want of which leaves her nothing to wear,
| And renders her life dear and dyspepic,
! That she's quite a recuse and almost skeptic;
! For she touchingly says that this sort of grief
| Can not find in Religion the slightest relief,
| And Philosophy has not maxim to spare
For the vIctIrs of such overwhelming despair.
But the saddest by far of all these sud features
Is the cruelty practiced upon the poor creatures
BY husbands and fathers real Bluebears and limons
who resist the most touching appeal made for dmonds
BY their wives and daughters and leave them Tor
| days
Unsupplied with now iewlery, fans anu boqnets.
| Even laugh nt their miscrics whene'er they've a
chance
And deride their demands as useless extravaganza
| One case of n bride was brought to my view,
| Too sad for belief but alasl twas too true.
| Whose husband refused, as savage as Charon
To permit her to take than ten trunks to Shar-
The consequence w as that when she got there,
At the end of three weeks she had nothing to wear;
Ind hpp The Oseb io nj sh spa
At Newport, the monster refused out and out,
For his infamous conduct alleging no reason,
Excepting the waters were good for his gout
Such treatment this too shocking, of couroe,
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
Ofevery benc violent heart in the city,
And spur up humanity INTO n canter
TO rush und relieve there sad cases ins anter.
Won't somebody, moved by this touching description
Come forward tomorrow and head subscription!
Won't some kind Philanthropist seeing that aid Is
So needed at once by these indignant ladies',
Take charg of the matter? or won't Peter Co per
The cornerstone Jay ofsome splendid super
Structure like that which to-day links his name,
In the Union unmending of honor and fame.
And found charity Just for the caro-
OF those unhappy women with nol hing to wear,
Which, in view Of the cash which would daily be
claimed,
The Laying out Hospital veil might be namedf
Won't Stewart; some of our dry-goods importers
Take contract for clothing our wives and ou
daughters2
Or to furnish the cash to supply these dstresses.
And liie's pathway strcw with shawls, collars an
dresses, Tthornier
Ere the want of them makes it much rougher an,
Won't some one discover new California;
oh ladies' dear ladies' tho next sunny day.
Please trundle your hoops just ont of Broadway.
From its whirl and its hustle, fashion and pride,
And tho temples of I rade. which tower on eac
\ ! side,
; | To the allies and lanes where Misfortune and Gui
Their children have gathered, their city and built;
/, Where Hunger and Vice like twins beasts of rrey,
y Have hunted their victims to gloom and despair
Raise the rich, dainty dress, and the fire broidere
skirt
Pick your delicate way through the dampncss and di
Grope through the dark dens, climb the rickety sta
To the garrett, where wrctches the young and the o.
Hslf starved and half-noked, lie crouched from Il
cold.
SEQ those skeleton limbs tlosc rrost.biite feet,
All bleeding and bruised by the stones of the street;
Hear the sharp cry ofchildhood the deep groans tn
swell
From the poor diving eature who lies on the floor,
Hear the curses that sound like the echoes Of Hell,
As you sicken aud shuddei and ly from the door;
Then homs 10 your wardrObos, and say iiyou dare
Spoiled children OF ~S!ioE--yOuN Ne nothing 10 wea
a Aud Oh, il porcLancc there should be sphere
Where all is made right which puzzles US here,
~ Where the rtrc and the glitter and tinspl of Time
Fade and die in the light of thatregion sublime,
Where the soul, discnchanted of Hesh and Of sense,
Unscreened by its trappngs and shows, aud preten
Must he clothed for the life and sc ivice above,
IA With purity truth faith meekness and love-
or Oh daughters of earth! foolish Virgins, bUwurcl
ey Lest in that upper realm you have nothing To wear
A BUCHANAN MAN In CoURT.--A color
=, man named Halay, made complaint ycstc
an an day in the Police Court, against another o
lat named James, for drawing a knife upon hi
and threatening his life. In telling his stor
Haley caused considerable mcriment amo
, the spectators, in tho court room, and &C
cluded by saying it "wasn't nothin' NOR,
could be expected of the fellow, for he W
tic one of these ere Buchanan men," Jan
ou eu was called up by the Court, questioned rs
his politics and admitting that he voted
he Buchanan, His Honor very gracefully bow
lch him out of tho court ROOM Det. ADV.