Daily national Republican., 1863-05-20
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The following paragraph has been ahoat for
some time. We find it last in the Scientific
american:
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA was married in a
ace dress which cost $4,000. The same night .
hundreds Of poor girls were starving in Lon
DON
How much better off would the "poor girls"
have been had the Princess worn calico dress
worth FIVE dollars Unless 1t can be shown
that they would have been benefited, TO some
extent by such an act of economy on the part
Of the Princess, the paragraph we quote, and
which has been going the rounds Of the papers,
Is pointless. The two facts stated In the para
graph only Illustrate the common extremes OF
.lfe-the eNtravagance Of the wealthy and pow
eTful classes on one side, and the wretChedncss
or the poor and periBhinC classes on the other.
These things have existed during all time, and
Ell never cease while the world stands. II Is
d Theory that few Of us would like 10 be com
PEELED 10 reduce to practice, that, because some
toIY is f.Frrrng in the city where we live, we
shah not, therefore, enjoy the fruits Of our
honest lndustry. 1t amounts to just that, no
more and no less. Hence we cannot see what
te Youthful Princess presentation bridal suit
has to do with the poor girls" of London,
80 doubt she would quickly give $4,000 TO
distribute among them, If she was applied to,
providing the hundreds Of starving girl" q"
could he found
But there Ia another view Of this subject. Did
Il never occur TO any one that the extravagant
demands Of the rich constantly save many
poor girls " from starving, by keeping them
prnD1pyad
with their delicate hands and needles, to en-
hroider the very lace dress worn by the Prin-
cess How many poor women are employed
hy Queen Victoria, directly and Indirectly
How many are employed, directly and Indirect
Iv ny the great demands made upon dress
makers and milliners by the Empress Eugene
Garry out tue suggestion until all the courts in
the old world arc absorbed, and then return to
our own country.
Lake peep into the White House. Go into
the great East room, and thence into the Green,
Blue, and Red rooms, and 30 on, until you have
Inspected the gorgcously furnished Princes
room," SO called since the Prince of Wales oc-
cupied It. What do you beholdl
In the first place, in the great East room is a
carpet woven in a single piece. Itwas selected
in Edinburg, Scotland, by Mr.. VIM. II. Carryl,
upholstcrer, of Philadelphia, who furnished the
White House under the last appropriation OF
Congress. The amount of labor performed in
the manufacture of that single carpet, from the
time the raw material was first touched until
it was colored and wrought into Its present
state Of perfection, was very great. 1t Is a
matter of pride with our people that the EEecu-
tive mansion Of the Chief Magistrate of this
great nation shallbe furnished in a manner not
only creditablc to us, but into which he need
not be ashamed TO invite any of the proud rep
resentatiyes Of the great Powers Of the earth.
Look again at the magnificent wrought lace
curtains that adorn all the windows Of the
rooms enumerated above, also procured by
Mr.. Carryl They were wrought by the hands
Of ladies' in Switzerland But for this expcn,
dIture, those ladies might have become par
Of the starving brigade OF "poOr girls" Who
knows
Again, behold the elegantly raised volvc
figured paper with which the walls Of the Eas
room and other rooms, are so appropriated
decorated, ana which has so often challenge
the admiration Of the thousands who have bee
charmed BY It's appearance, rendered more efIeC
tive by the brilliant light Of the monster chan
drliers, and consider how many poor were EN-
pIoyed and fed by the demand for this article
60 through this house and note the mirrors
the heavy eatiu drapery, the furniture and fix
uIes generally, all necessary to complete tn
outfit for the residence Of the Chief Magistrat
Of the greatest nation on earth. The none
Invested in procuring these articles reache