The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-10-21
FOR WHOM DOVE DREssP

eOh WnOM OU WE UhESSf
Women want diamonds in order IL
shine each other down. and theydress fol-
precisely the same purpose. As a rule,
they can have neither dress nor dia.
monds, unless men lavish these things
upon them; and thatmen have done SC
in abundance is in itself a demonstra-
ton that In some way or other, they
have already made themselves exceed
ingly pleasing to the donors. Here
lies the secret. Women do not dress
to please men, but In order.to show
each other that they have pleased
them. Thus dress is, with women, not
the means of victory. bnt the signs and
proof of 1t.
Were we to assert that men dress to
please, women. we should be saying
something nearer the mark than the
ayerment that women dress to please
men. And 1t is worth asserting
though, ofcourse, in order to make 1t
strictly true, 1t wonld require qualifl.
cation-inasmuch as it will help to
show US why what, ntHtatf8 nlHtdndis,
can be pretty freely predicated OF one
sex cannot be predicated at all of the
other. Society is the business of a
womAn's life: 1t is mans pastlms and
relaxation. Accordingly the women,
when In society, are mostly bent upon
promoting what they conceive to be
their interests. while men are prin-
cipally occupied In seeking what
they conceive TO be their pleas
ure. To be reciprocally pleasing
is one of the objects in life OF the men,
beers of both sexes; but it is the exclu-
stVe object of neither. Men are just as
anxious to make themselves agreeable
| to women as women are to make them
selves agreeable to omen but 1t is not in
order to make themselves SO that they
study prices current, worry their brains
over pleadings, master the intricaoies
of the poor-law. or go through the dirty
turmoltot a political election. There
are other ways and other opportunities
OF gratifying the vain and amorous side
of their nature and when the occasion
arises, they are not negleotfnl OF the eS-
ternal devices which they fancy VIII
assist them In that particular quest.
Accordingly, as we say, men who are
DESTROYS of rendering themselves CRATE
ful.to women, are conspicuously Rtten-
tive to their dress, AS we put It, they
dress TO please women. And though
we must do woman the Justice to OBJ
serve that the arts of the popiniay are
by no means a sure approach to her
affections, the wisest of mankind, IL
bent upon attracting her, will not who'll
| ly disregard them. But she by no means
thinks TO please others by the methods
which partially please her. The society
where female attire is of consequence
is her place of business, her mart, her
public arena; and In it she has some
thing to think of besides moving the
| hearts of men. We do not say that
the latter object Is wholly, foreign to
her thoughts; but, as far as dress
is concerned, 1t Is. Should she
general business of the evening, and
| dedicate them to that special point,
where does she spend them3 Surely in
some corner, alcove, conservatory, ball
cony-garden, may be-where the
spiender other attire can no longer be
duly seen. She knows that, for the
subduing of mana commentary glance,
transitory tone, anuncertaln pressure
of the hand, are worth all the dresses
in the world, But, In order TO conquer
women, TO put her heel upon the neck
of her own sex, she must Sshtne them
down.p Her husband or father may
begrudge the expense, her lover may
may tell her that she has made herself
perfect fright But so long as she
feels sure that womeudo not think she,
has done anything of the kind, she
does notcare pin for traternaf ortiz
cism; and she is confident that she
possesses the peculiar arts which will
compel father, lover, or husband, as
the case may be, to allow her to do pre-
cisely the same morrow evening, or,
II possible, TO do ever SO much more in.
the same directions The error lies In
Overlooking the material fact that wo-
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ambitious as men, the only difference
being that, as the field of their ambi-
ton is not the same, neither are their
arms; and as, In the pursuit of this
comm on passion, man contends with
man and mol with woman, SO woman
contends with woman and not
with man. It is what his fellow.
men think of his speech. his book,
his picture, his influence on tChange, his
military capacity, and not what women.
think OF IL, that Is an am bilious man's
main consideration. Similarly, Il Is
what her felIow-women think of her
skirt, her bonnet, her PdfLre or pearls,
her necklace, her aheadgear, and not
what men think of 1t, that IL an ambF.
tfous Women's consideration as she
moves among her splendid rivals. In
reality, she values and rates mems
opinions upon dress about as highly as
they do hers upon political economy,
L ku6 1EOoPGGl1 VI AA1 A9aahGhI Ok
Chaneellor'S last argument. In plain
words, she thinks rather meanIy of ii.
or, at any rate, regards 1t as foreign TO
the purpose. Long after she pretends
or even cares to captivate men, for herr
self ut least, she is still all soIicitude
about her attire. In fact, Il rather
wakes than Wanes with q &c, thus At.
fordtng US q fresh presumption of It's
4 being In her the analogy to that ambi-
ton in man which also grows and
deepens with the growing years She
may no longer have youth She may
no longer have beauty but so long as
she can dress as handsomely and j a as
costly fashion as other Wof1ien,- she
gives them manifest proofs that she
stu retains power, and the mascnfine
affection which, nine times out OF ten
originally gave 10 to her. Her husband
! enables her to dress fashionably, not
thatSshe may please HIM but that he
I may please her; and this Is precisely
what he has done all along, from the
very first day ofhis marrying her. '
WHAr THEY ATE At, HARAroaA.-
| ConEress Hall, Saratoga, accommoda-
| ted during the season, from June 10 to
1 September 10, over 10, goo persons. Dus
ring that time the hotel cooked $4,000
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